A Short Note Against Death Penalty

'An Eye for and Eye makes the whole world Blind'

And this is a much milder statement than what is applicable to state sponsored death penalty. The above statement is reminiscent of a feudal system where retribution of a personal kind is sought between equals or people of comparable power. In the case of the death penalty, we have the huge and powerful state acting on behalf of certain individuals to enact the death penalty. So it is a much stronger statement that has to be written against death penalty than the above one.

Can one state orchestrated murder be the answer for another? The all powerful state can easily afford to invest time and resources on the analysis of what is the sickness that gives rise to violence and crime. By matching a death for another, it need not pretend to be less powerful than it is or, in other words, try to make out that it is only equal to the murderer.

Above lines are in response to rajan kurai's note on facebook