IS DEATH PENALTY INHUMANE??

ASHLEY RAVEEN FERNZ 6BSC

INTRO..
Capital punishment, death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences

Methods of Death Penalty

Current Methods Decapitation Electrocution Gas Chamber Hanging Lethal Injection Shooting Past Methods Boiling Burning Crucifixion Crushing Sawing Slow Slicing Dismemberment

Top Countries that carry out Death Penalty

1.China officially not released, may be 6000 2. Iran at least 252+ 3.North Korea at least 60+ 4.Yemen at least 53+ 5.USA 46 6.Saudi Arabia at least 27+ 7.Libya at least 18+

Death Penalty in Malaysia

Six NGOs, together with the cooperation of the Malaysian Bar Council and certain Members of the Malaysian Parliament, have come together to make a stand on the use of the death penalty in Malaysia. Malaysia's Justice Minister Nazri Bin Abdul Aziz says that he supports abolishing the death penalty. "For me, a life is a life. No one has the right to take someone else's life, even if that person has taken another life," he is quoted as saying to a local newspaper Veteran lawyer and politician Karpal Singh called on the government to amend Section 376 of the Penal Code to provide for the death penalty for child rapists.

Taken from Star newspaper

Malaysia's Justice Minister Nazri Bin Abdul Aziz

Views on Death Penalty

Pro Death Penalty Supporters There will be no sympathy shown to criminals. Criminals get a chance to escape and thus go scot free, committing more crimes. Anti Death Penalty Supporters There is chance that innocent people might get executed and it cannot be reversed. The mental torture the family of the person being executed goes through

Buddhism
There is disagreement among Buddhists as to whether or not Buddhism forbids the death penalty. Buddhism is the official religion in both.

Judaism
The official teachings of Judaism approves the death penalty. but the standard of proof required for application of death penalty is extremely stringent.

Islam
There is great variation within Islamic nations as to actual capital punishment. To certain crimes only i.e. rape. Murder is not one of them. Minority view within some Muslims that capital punishment is not justified in the light of Qur'an.

Christianity
Romans 13:3 4 to support the death penalty. Leviticus 20|2 27 has a whole list of situations in which execution is supported. They are free to make a personal decision.

Conclusion
There are many views on the death penalty. Some support it. Others say it is inhumane and should be abolished. There is nothing humane in killing a person, which ever way it is done.

 Capital punishment will continue to be debated. Is it immoral or moral; just or unjust? This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to death penalty debate. It is an extremely precarious issue on both the sides and death penalty pros and cons seem justified. It is a really tough call. Personally, I am of the idea that death penalty is inhumane.

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