"Rethink the death penalty" - Hindu editorial dt. December 3, 2014
"Even if public opinion in India currently favours the death penalty, the move towards a more enlightened approach can be initiated in Parliament. As India endeavours to play a stronger role in world politics, it is time to rethink its stand on the death penalty with more clarity"
One doesn't have to agree with above reasoning. The gravity of losing a precious life at the hands of a rowdy element for the sake of movable or immovable property or ransom is known only to the nearest kith and kin. Not necessarily to an arm chair journalist or the so called sophisticated social thinker who would have otherwise frowned upon the agencies to send the culprits to the gallows in case his or her own child or spouse is involved in the murder.
Taking away one's life at the sweet will of a criminal, under whatever circumstances, can hardly justify a lighter punishment to suit the tastes of a modern thinker. Only in rarest of rare cases the death penalty is awarded and that provision at least will deter some more individuals to indulge in the casual killing of other fellow beings.
You might call it barbarian but it is a necessary evil as long as mankind behaves in a crude and cruel fashion.
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