Capital Punishment- #Sustain or #Delete

During 1990-2000, 8 people were executed and the tenure has witnessed an increase in murder
incidences from 35,045 to 37,399.This seems to be used as an effective justification in declaring
death penalty as an ineffective and non-correlative measure. I contradict this statistical
interpretation and view the same as decrease in murder cases from around 4 % to 3.6%.During
1990-2000, population has also been increased for 868.89 million to 1.04 billion, the parameter
selectively (Ignorance wont be an apt for Shashi Tharoor) being excluded to selectively
appease the vote bank politics.
I too have preferred decade 1990-2000 and the independent variable like population as these
favors my Opinion and more importantly to put a pause on inferences brought in from statistics
to the debate of capital punishment.

The death penalty sentenced to Yakub Menon has ignited a debate on Capital Punishment and
intellectuals, politicians, journalists across the society have joined the fray attacking and
defending the law and I too could not avoid my position.

The apathy of India is that we being hypocrite in our thinking and hence inconsistent in our
reactions. India has witnessed slogans in favor of having fast track judiciary during Nirbhayas
case but Yakub Menons death sentence after having a trial of around 20 years is blemishing the
Apex courts in being haste in their decision. Courts may have not have given a fair decision in
some of the cases subject to many legal technicalities and I also admit that there could be
inconsistency in judgments subject to personal opinion of Judges but would be nearly
impossible to challenge a case of unfair death penalty being granted by court.

I personally feel rather than debating capital punishment in terms of its morality or immorality,
we should debate if our country has matured to a level of Sweden,Norway,Denmark like
countries. We have not grown to the maturity level of Sweden like countries which enjoys the
smallest homicide rate in the world. Those who are vociferously arguing that death penalty does
not actually deter an individual from committing an offence (premise used: studies show that an
individual is rarely aware of the legal implications of his acts) should realize that many of the
rapists dont murder the victims as the second heinous act can get them under the purview of
death penalty, such cases consciously/unconsciously seems to have been kept out of the scope
of this study. Death penalty actually is a deterrence measure and the current studies and
interpretations are misleading as the subjects under consideration are only murderers. Scope of
the study need to be widened before bringing a logical conclusion.

An eye for an eye wont necessarily leave the whole world blind but can get a world with two
individuals being one eyed and avoiding a tough law can be a reason for making us all one
eyed.