World Day Against the Death Penalty
Today’s the World Day Against the Death Penalty… Introduced in 2003, this event was launched by the the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Honestly speaking, I’m actually against Death Penalty. I do think that these people deserve to be given a chance to prove themselves again. I don’t know, maybe I’m too kind. It’s just that I don’t think that capital punishment can solve anything.
You’re gonna end someone’s life. Yeah, great. Aren’t you putting yourself at the same level of these criminals? And I don’t think human beings have the right to kill someone even though the latter has erred. Mistakes do happen sometimes. I’m not saying that killing someone happens by mistake but still, some criminals do reform themselves.
Also, I don’t think this is an option to actually stop the crime rate from increasing in any country. Really, kill one, 10 will come to you. That’s not how the problem is gonna be solved. What you should really do is find these people and actually understand what’s going on in their mind. Of course, most people wouldn’t be able to understand a psychopath.
Here’s what I found on Google..
Over half the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice:
• 89 countries and territories have abolished the death penalty for all crimes;
• 10 countries have abolished the death penalty for all but exceptional crimes such as wartime crimes;
• 30 countries can be considered abolitionist in practice. They retain the death penalty in law but have not carried out any executions for the past 10 years or more and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions.
This makes a total of 129 countries which have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
It’s a start. Really… I just would like to know what you guys think about this…
Death penalty also exist in Mauritius! But is not used in practice..
chervine said this on October 10, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Dan moris… okaine la loi pa en pratik -.- Mne blier ek kisan la ti kozer… Who was it Sayuka? The one who said that instead of putting severe laws, they prefer to do things ki benefit zot tou pu ki personne pa complain…. I think Rault sa… Si li sa, t pa ti la…
bbZuSh said this on October 10, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Au risk ki zot flame moi… Dans sa pays la bisin ena death penalty (officially), lerla pou gagne imP lordre…
Pa kav ene boug touye ene lot, viole ene ti tifi, etc etc… lerla, 2 zours apres li sorti lor cautions? WTF sa?????!
¥@$# said this on October 10, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I guess the question is can we be the judge of those people. I think there are ultra evil people who have help people in custody and tortured them for their own pleasure. I truly don’t have a problem with those people suffering the consequences of the death penalty. Our country does not have the death penalty and I would not petition to have it brought back. I think that the question of what constitutes evil and what constitutes a mistake is more in question. Yes, people make mistakes, they drink to much and kill out of anger or any number of scenarios, but there are those who under no influence choose to perpetrate hideous crimes on other people for their own conscious pleasure. They are plain evil, and there is really nothing to understand.
Dawn said this on October 11, 2007 at 1:56 am
I think that death penalty is not the solution…U are right to say that if you kill one 10 will come to you…I doubt if we could really reform some people…
Josh said this on October 11, 2007 at 7:40 am
hmm.. against the death penalty ? and what about a person who takes a cutter and cuts a new born baby into pieces ? and what about the guys who killed maujib meer ? the criminals hit him with pavement, set fire to him, drive there car on hm. what about the rapist who once out after 14 years comits another rape ? and this time killng the victim.. I am also against death penalty.. what about the dad who rapes his baby daughter of 2 months? what about the person who consistantly beats his wife, and one day kills his wife while beating her ? ( provoked ) ? how can such reckless persons be alive ? and worst of all, walking freely amongst me and yo in the streets. I do not wish to agonise, but the whole judicial system is not well framed. Overpopulated prisons, the increasing use of drugs, in prisons etc etc, the whole society itself is to be blamed ? why not open bordels then ? rapists would enjoy socializing with the persons in the bordel than raping someone on the street… what about the case of sandra o’reily?
boomparwez said this on October 11, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I would like to add.. the guys in the ” lamicale case” do not deserve so much sentense.. they are ecoping the sentense of all those who set fire to that place that day
boomparwez said this on October 11, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Most of you seem to be for death penalty, but I’m more for life imprisonment
It’s just I don’t feel that d.p is the solution. it isn’t. Man, you’re just putting yourself at his level and becoming murderers yourself, even for the greater good…
bbZuSh said this on October 11, 2007 at 3:54 pm
SO, according to me, death penalty is wrong in our changing society… Also that it’s against the Human Rights Act 1998.. Every person has the right to live…Yes its also true about someone who had murdered somebody, have a life sentence or anything similar and he is still breathing…Or may be acquited…The question need to be ask, what would be ur reaction, when someone of ur family had committed murder or manslaughter? Will u agree to the fact? Or even he is charged of murder which he did not commit…Will death penalty be then reasonable? It is true that if law was too rigid, it would be very difficult to survive, as we people, everyday we are in breach of the law, without us realising what we are doing….Thus too much of flexibility in the law is also not desirable…..However having death penalty, will be harsh..What if the criminal realises, after the commission of the crime, or after his trial, that what he had committed is really bad and disgraceful…and he decided to reform himself to a better person…There is a series of ideas that need to put foward for discussion…Therefore, in my opinion, death penalty was the best solution to punish someone guilty of murder at the time of aristotle….But not now…With an evolving society like ours, death penalty will be really regarded as morally obnoxious..
Regarding Mauritian society, we are living in a society full of crimes..I think most of you will agree with me to this particular point…Most of the crimes committed are Burglary, theft, rape, sexual harassment…Why is it so? This is because, people are not able to survive due to inflation…So what people find to do, to have easy money, is to steal..And also, mauritian peoplenowadays are getting lazier…So the question of hard work does not arise to these people wiz culpable mind…. So, what would happened, if one of your relatives or someone close to you have done something unlawful…And the punishement is death penalty..Will you go for it? And just to let you know that, death penalty exists in mauritius but we do not use it as a punishment, because it will be against the Human Rights Act 1998.. And i think that, the judiciary of mauritius are doing wonderful job…This is called a true independent judiciary, according to the concept of separation of powers, per Baron Charles de Montesquieu…..What need to be done, so that we can live in a better society, free from theft, is to hardened the law regulating theft…That would be much appreciated by the mauritian society…
Ashmaxcool said this on October 11, 2007 at 3:56 pm
The death penalty was used and is still being used in some countries as a deterrent for crime. However I don’t think that criminals are really afraid of the death penalty and I don’t think that if the practice of death penalty exists in a country the crime rate will substancially decrease.
What we need is an uprise in moral values and a conciousness of the good and the bad. I know I sound outdated but it’s like “teach your child good manners and he/she will beg the pardon of even the chair with which he/she collides.”
morinn said this on October 11, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Ashmaxcool to p met 1 seryeu r ban classe criminal la mo p truver !
boomparwez said this on October 11, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I have to say, I totally agree with morinn and Ashmaxcool!!!
bbZuSh said this on October 11, 2007 at 9:55 pm
i totally disagree of death penalty… we have no right of taking a person’s life, only God can take our lives… we can forgive them, for they’re humans as well… if God forgives the sinners, we can also forgive…
riezi89 said this on July 19, 2009 at 8:02 am