Death penalty righteous or wicked? (Part II)

Is the retributivist approach to justice reasonable at all times? Is the execution of murderers the same as murder, only glorified by being sanctioned by the state? Are there merits to embracing the execution route? Or is it simply a romanticised violation of life, totally antithetical to the crystalline and sublime beauty of the principle of the sanctity of life! KEVIN MOKENTO* writes

Abolitionists advance two reasons for their aversion to capital punishment; the absence of evidence supporting the veracity of the notion of deterrence, and the likelihood of executing an innocent person. Their fear is rooted on the fact that where execution has already been carried out, and with time it becomes incontrovertibly clear that the accused person was innocent, the ultimate punishment meted out on the innocent person is unfortunately irrevocable.

Justice Koogan supported this view, “You don’t dig up a coffin, open up the lid and then tell the accused, “Oops, sorry. We made a mistake.” ………. We are human beings operating in an imperfect system and we’re bound to make mistakes, ………. for that reason, and that reason alone, ……. capital punishment should no longer be law of this State or any other state.”

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