You are Arashi/Aman. You genuinely feel that ‘Capital Punishment’ in no way takes justice to its logical end. Using the information given below, along with your own views, write a letter to the editor of a national daily advocating for the Abolishment of Capital Punishment in India and abroad. Give at least three reasons to prove your point.
Hints: * Legal system * still colonial * practices of blood for blood continue * capital punishment barbaric * state can’t take away the life * aim of punishment reformative * can’t take away the right of redemption * life must be saved at all costs.
Ans. 20, Khwaja was
Bari Dargah Road, Ajmer
June 5, 2020
The Editor
The Times of India
New Delhi
Sir
Sub: Abolishing capital punishment
Through the column of your esteemed daily, I would like to draw the kind attention of the concerned authorities and common masses towards Abolishing capital punishment. The world has made big strides in science and technology. The legal system in India has its roots still in the colonial penal codes. Unfortunately, the barbaric practices of ‘blood for blood’ still continue in the form of capital punishment. We still have not come out of the middle ages. Hence, the barbaric practice of awarding capital punishment still continues in India and some other countries of the world.
If the state can’t grant life to anyone, how can it take away the life of a person? Natural law doesn’t approve of such barbaric and inhuman practices. Secondly, the aim of punishing a person for the crime he has committed is reformative. Capital punishment doesn’t leave any scope for reformative chances. Thirdly, birth, and death are natural processes and can’t be terminated by the arbitrary will of the state. The state should not take away the right of redemption of an individual by sealing his fate forever. A civilized and human society must have civilized and human laws. There should be no place for any traces of barbaric practices of the middle ages in the modern world.
I hope this message will touch the conscience of thousands through the column of your esteemed daily.
Yours faithfully
Arashi/Aman
