CAPITAL PUNISHMENT “Rarest of rare cases”says the Indian judiciary when it comes to inflicting capital punishment, or death penalty. Rather than taking a firm position on, whether killing another human being is justified or not, our wise men prefer to behave like scarecrows – to scare away criminals who well know that the judiciary’s weapon to kill is only made of hay. Murdering a murderer are two wrongs that don’t make either one right. So, what then? Teach the murderer a lesson, and a jail is the place where he or she can learn it in. A parole was devised as an inducement to learn that lesson quicker, and come back to society a changed person. But what if a change does not come by, and tax-payers howl in protest of an unending jail junket? Then go for a change in the lesson that will answer the tax payers’ grievances, i.e. hang the incorrigible criminal. And let that be what the judiciary means by: “Rarest of rare cases”. (Out of my book: SIMPLY MY WAY (www.bennetpaes.com) Bennet Paes
