Why do we need to do away with Capital Punishment?

#Opinion #Controversial

Letter from the author-

I know the majority will disagree with me and only a small minority may agree with me. But I feel that something needs to be said on this issue at least for the awareness of the people. I will be giving you instances of people’s experiences and also more on human psychology as well as a bit of criminology backed by statistics. This will be a discussion with facts and not with emotions. Let us look into each reason one by one. The citations have been added to the statement, so please click on those links. The preference for the easiest path is the primary reason why Capital Punishment still exists.

Capital Punishment is nothing but a state’s decision to take a person’s life as an act of punishment for some action which state believes is deplorable or easily termed as state-sponsored killing. The term “State” is also ambiguous as in olden days there were no nation-states but kingdoms and empires. Even today, the state means different in different countries like it can be a person, a group of person, a dictator, a general, court etc. The most common ways of the same are hanging by the neck till death, injection, electrocution, shooting, beheading are few current rules. The ancient rules including, beheading, backbreaking, poisoning etc.