International Journal of Legal Science & Innovation
[ISSN 2581 – 9453]
Efficacy and Ethics: A Critical Analysis of Capital Punishment in India
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Jesventhi
Student at VIT, Chennai, India
Abstract
The notion of stringent criminal punishment has been misconceived over the death penalty. Even though, the death sentence in India is not imposed based on no evidence and arbitrarily or without any logical reasoning, Death over another death questions the deterrent effect of the death penalty. It creates a situation of duty of the state vs. the state as a murderer where the question of morality and inhumane violation of human rights arises. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of the death penalty and emphasizes the alternatives with parlance to global views on the death sentence. The paper makes a critical analysis of the executions of the past 5 years and the constitutional validity of the Death penalty.
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International Journal of Legal Science and Innovation, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 234 - 240
DOI: https://doij.org/10.10000/IJLSI.112108Creative Commons
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