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Should Capital Punishment be Aboloshed
Title: Should Capital Punishment be Aboloshed
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 839 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Should Capital Punishment be Aboloshed
With the passage of time there has been softening of Penal Cod. Not long ago death penalty was inflicted fron numerous offences. In England death by hanging was a legal punishment for no less than two hundred offences, even for such minor offences as stealing a sheep, poaching or pick-pocketing. With the dawn of modern civilization a realization has dawned upon the people that severity of punishment is a relic of barbarism. It was Sir …showed first 75 words of 839 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 839 total…the gravity of his crime. Death in the electric chair, they hold, is the shortest cut to a peaceful life.
In our ultimate we conclude that punishment should be exemplary so that others may learn by precedent. Capital punishment is no doubt dreadful and frightening but the culprit has not to pass through a period of protracted pain. Moreover, he gets no chance to reform himself and make himself a useful member of the society.
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