Capital Punishment should be Banned or Allowed?

This has been quite a controversial and hot debate since the last couple of years. I have went through everyone's opinions here and would like to thank everyone for your perspectives and speaking your mind!

In my opinion, capital punishment or death penalty should be banned for any form of crimes. Well, my opinion might seem very stupid and nonsensical to many people. But the ground reality here is that capital punishments and any form of death penalties doesn't deter crimes from happening. I myself vehemently supported capital punishments until just one year back, since I was of the opinion that killing or hanging a criminal would prevent other criminals from committing the same crime and that it would safeguard our society. It is widely considered that imposing death penalties on criminals would lessen crimes. Yet, that's not what has been occurring.

The more aggressively a nation applies capital punishment, the more the crime rate increases. There's no proof in this world that capital punishments has deterred crimes in any way. Crime is a vicious cycle which only perpetuates if we use violence in dealing with violence. An eye for an eye makes the world go blind! Take for example the countries which practise the imposing of capital punishments- Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, China, all the middle east nations except Israel, some underdeveloped nations in Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United States and our very own India.

Do you see something common here? In these very nations where capital punishment is carried out, the crime rates are the highest. Whereas the rest of the world including Europe where it's banned, the crime rates are negligible.

I think life imprisonment without parole is the best form of punishment a criminal could ever get. The criminal will always one day or the other in his life repent the horrendous deed he did within the poor solitary confinements of his prison. And most importantly, age shouldn't be a deciding factor in this matter. Even a juvenile of 16-18 years should be imposed this punishment.

Capital punishments allow the real convicts to go scot free just because he is a juvenile and the ones who aren't that guilty enough or even innocent gets hanged. This misappropriation will go away once capital punishment gets banned and life imprisonment without any restrictions on age of the criminal is imposed. In many cases, casteism, race and poverty comes to the forefront when a person is to be hanged. The wealthy and the person who could afford the best lawyers is treated in a better way By the judiciary and the one who is from a backward race and poor gets biased treatment and consequently gets hanged.

Terrorists are one group who should be tortured mercilessly from time to time during their solitary life imprisonments. The same goes for rapists. Believe me friends, death sentence does nothing to the criminal which a life imprisonment without parole does. It means endless tortures every day of their life until death. It also allows room for guilt and conscience, where they couldn't do anything apart from repenting every day of their lives but without mercy from anyone.

Crime rates have consequently decreased in nations where the death penalty has been abolished. Whereas in countries where it's practised, all forms of crimes including murder and rapes are coming up day after day. Researches and studies have proved that capital punishment has never been successful to deter and prevent any forms of crime to happen.

Lastly, capital punishment is a hugely expensive business which involves plentiful of funds due to the legal proceedings and lawyer fees. All these money should instead be used for the benefits and assistance of the murdered victim's family by providing them funds and counselling. They are the ones who are ones who suffer the aftermath of the crime the most all through their lives.

Killing the convict doesn't have the power to offer them any peace of mind, even if we think that it does. It's a lose which they carry for the rest of their lives. It should be the duty of the state to provide them with any assistance they need. Crimes can never be cured with crimes, but by treating the grass root problems of the country which is corruption at all levels, poverty and most importantly the social evils lingering everywhere like casteism.

I am sure my opinions won't be taken positively by a majority, but I posted what I opine is true. Thanks!

It shouldn't be banned because-.

1) It will vanish the fear from the mind of society leading to more crimes. We should think like criminals first so accordingly me as a criminal, I will have a strong urge to commit a crime and at that time the intensity of fear will be less but then also if there is no capital punishment, I will think like I don't care about life imprisonment. First of all I am not going to be caught and if I got caught then in jail I will think of various methods to break it or live happily there as I will have a lot of time to think and do.

2) We are a part of a group or society to achieve something. We are not free to harm others as a whole. A society shouldn't sacrifice due to one person if one person is affecting all the humanity then it is better to remove that particular criminal from the society. (As in case of apples).

3) We can't say that we don't have any right to kill a person and only the god has that right. Because god can never be a caption of that particular society we have a freedom to decide whether a criminal should be allowed to live or not.

4) By taking his life not only the society will get rid of him but also many who are going to do the same offence for them it will surely a scary one.

5) Capital punishment should be for severe cases only because in small crimes their is hope for criminals that they can change over a period of time. But big crimes not only show severity of crime but also severity of wrong thoughts too. And as we know involuntary action requires thinking and that thinking is not a byproduct of one day and one idea. So to break that cycle of thoughts in that criminal is a very long time process and if the criminal is not ready to change then his thoughts will die only when he is died.

6) By capital punishment we can develop a system in which whole society can understand severity of such crime and by this parents are sure to protect their children from such thoughts and actions.

Capital punishment should not be banned. If capital punishment is banned then our country should be fearless of terrorism they have done there a lot of crime work like rape, murder such that type of thing should be happening in our country. It is happening much more than previous crime so that capital punishment should not be banned.

Punishment should reduce crime; did hanging of Kasab reduce terrorism? Look what happened in Pathankot and your; did hanging in Nirbhaya case deterred criminals? Look what happened to Monika Ghurde; our laws nd policing need improvement; criminals gets courage because he knows the loopholes in our system. He knows that he can get out of it; if it is such that the criminal will surely get punished or convicted ie. If there is certainty of punishment then the law will act as a deterrent; but if there is no certainty of punishment. Which can be created by people with money? Getting best manipulative lawyer. WHICH IS THE TREND IN OUR COUNTRY. INDIA. Then, law doesn't serve as deterrent; when people are angry or frustrated. At that high point, they are unable to think about d consequences. Even if its death punishment. So this punishment doesn't serve purpose; but if our system nd law can prove that. A punishment is SURE if committed crime. Then it will deter people; some petty thieves stay in prison for many years even without conviction because he doesn't have money to get bailed. While some rich rapists nd murderers roam free and runs our country; I serve as a police officer and I swear that law in our country is very very very very very inefficient in giving justice to the poor and putting a rich criminal behind bars; NETAS are the father and BABUS are the mother of this country and the poor are like refugees.

According to me, the Capital punishment should be there for those who deserve it. For every crime we have some punishment as well as fine but are these punishments or fines enough for a terrorist who take our thousands of people lives away and leave their families in unbearable pain. Should government spent too much money in their maintenance, or for rapists who destroy women's life or for killers who kills a person only for money.

Every year we hear about many cases but most of them are frequently taking place. Why? because ignorance of law is making them fearless. They commit crime easily and get free and ready for another one.

Only one step we need to take here is a firm punishment or it may be CP, I will go for CP.

In my opinion I think it shouldnot be banned because there are certain cases in which this punishment seems less than what the crime a person had done like rape, brutally torchering and murdering someone. If the person who commits these crimes then the mindset of that person is never going to change throughout his life. He it is not done and he is given life imprisonment then I don't think it will work because today's generation is full of corruption, who knows he might get bailed next day and commits the same crime again. So it's better to kill his mindset of doing these crimes and this is only possible when he will be hanged to death!

Capital punishment should not be banned. As the person should be punished for the henious crime he has done. If the person has done rape or murder then death panelty should be given even though this is a very small punishment for the crime he has done. Just as we removes a rotten apple to save the basket full of apples, similary we must get rid of unwanted elements so that we can preserve the society.

Hello everyone my name is Balram.

Today, I would like to talk about the topic capital punishment should be banned or not. Capital punishment is known as the death penalty in which our judiciary system legally kill a human who commits a serious or heinous crime like murder, rape, terrorism. So, According to my opinion capital punishment should not be banned because the crime rates are increasing day by day in our society, and it creates a fear in the mind of criminals. Due to capital punishment countries like China, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia has a lower rate of crime. If we abolish capital punishment then it's increasing crime rates in our country and. People feel unsafe and insecure. Because every year many innocent people were killed by criminals so they have not right to kill someone without any reason because life is precious and no one can snatch it. Thanks.

Captial punishment should be there for those who deserve it. For every crime we have some punishment as well as fine but are these punishments or fines enough for a terrorist who take our thousands of people lives away and leave their families in unbearable pain. Should government spent too much money in their maintenance, or for rapists who destroy women's life or for killers who kills a person only for money.

Every year we hear about many cases but most of them are frequently taking place. Why? because ignorance of law is making them fearless. They commit crime easily and get free and ready for another one.

Only one step we need to take here is a firm punishment or it may be CP, I will go for CP.

"An eye for an eye makes the world blind".

I am against capital punishment. Yes, it should be banned. How better are we from the ones who commit such crimes. Ironically it's like we murder someone who has murdered someone else just to show that murder is an offense. Learning from the past, how helpful had it been in reducing crime? Did imposing capital punishment reduce murder, rape or terrorist attack cases in our nation or collectively the world? No. Then why are we even practicing such laws which yield no result yet at a cost of one's life? As also, can saving funds of a nation and not wasting money on criminals be a just explanation to take a life? We as humans have no right to take a human life. There might be many other options to replace capital punishment with. We must look upon them and get over with avenging a life as it neither does any good to the family of the victim nor sets any example to reduce further crimes.