• Reflections on Death Penalty: The St. Thomas More's Case

    Author(s):
    Joseph Ikhenoba (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Subject(s):
    Nobel Prize winners, Crime--Sociological aspects, Ethics, Psychology, Criminal justice, Administration of, Korea (North), Saudi Arabia, China, Human rights
    Item Type:
    Article
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/pnr0-0x91
    Abstract:
    Capital Punishment” or “Death Penalty” is the highest level of punishment awarded in any society or democracy to maintain law and order. But killing another human being in the name of justice is no better than murdering the person. We should focus on eliminating the crime, not the criminal. China is the only country in the world where the practice of the death penalty is still at its peak with over 1000 executions every year, this is accompanied by Saudi Arabia and North Korea getting commuted to life imprisonment and setting up labor camps. Further, United Nations said that killing another human being in the name of justice also kills the fact that we are human. However, we are no one to decide who gets to live and who gets to die. Therefore instead of hanging someone to death, we should adopt a different approach i.e. the reformative approach so that one could improve himself and can live peacefully thereafter. KEYWORDS: Death, penalty, extra-judicial, punishment, criminals, retrospective.
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