Capital Punishment In India

Capital punishment is considered as the highest degree of punishment which is awarded in any society or democratic nation in order to maintain law and order. But how executing some person for the sake of ultimate justice is justified, is a question of worth pondering. Rather we should focus on eradicating the crime and not the criminal. If we look at the prevalence of capital punishments all over the world then we would find that china is the sole country which ends up hanging 1000 person a year where as in India, the doctrine of(barest of the rare ) is followed and often the capital punishments, with the passage of time gets converted into the life imprisonment. Between the period of 2002 to 2016, India has executed a total of four persons. Regarding the procedure and law of capital punishment, India and china have various similarities but the sedeeming feature of capital punishment of china is that once it is awarded, it cannot be revoked in any circumstance. Having look on such policies, the united Nation(UN) has also opposed such policies, the United Nation(UN) has also opposed such harsh laws and stated that “ life is precious, and death is irrevocable” U N further stated that killing a human being for the sake of justice also denies the fact that we are human. We are no one to decide the fate of life of someone. Therefore, killing someone is not justified and we should approach a different way of tackling the criminals I.e. reformative approach which give an opportunity to the criminal to change himself and live peacefully in the society.