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Death penalty kills the criminal not crime
?DEATH PENALTY kills the criminal not the crime and it has not reduced the level of crime in our society,? said Poulomi Banerjee of BA Second Year at Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Banaras Hindu University.
“DEATH PENALTY kills the criminal not the crime and it has not reduced the level of crime in our society,” said Poulomi Banerjee of BA Second Year at Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Banaras Hindu University.
Initiating a discussion on ‘Abolition of Death Penalty’ organised under the auspices of academique, a discussion group at Law faculty in BHU on Monday, Banerjee said, criminals should be given an opportunity to improve and they should themselves understand the intensity and impact of crime committed by them.
She said that striking upon root causes like poverty and unemployment could only check crime in our society.
Expressing her views over the issue, Anuradha Gupta of BA second year at MMV College said, death penalty gave a message to this society and helped in lowering the crime rate.
Anuradha Gupta was of the view that if a person had killed innocent persons, there was no reason why death penalty should not be awarded to him. “Death penalty compelled people to think twice before committing any crime.”
Yash Pal Chaudhary of BA third year, Faculty of Social Sciences observed that death penalty did not provide a chance of reform the criminals. “By awarding death penalty to them, humanity faced great threat. Therefore, the change should be made in law,” he said.
“Death penalty also violated the fundamental right of right to life which has been guaranteed to each of us by our Constitution,” he added.
Nikhil Kumar of M.Tech third semester, Institute of Technology opined that the death penalty in our penal system was very much necessary especially in the present global scenario where terrorism was wrecking havoc.
“The provision for death penalty was justified in the rarest of rare case,” he said.
Apurva Verma of BA second year (MMV) and Prashant Kumar of BA second year, Social Science faculty, also expressed their views on the occasion.
