Capital Punishment : The Highest Form Of Punishment For A Crime

Kartik Sohi, Law College Dehradun

ABSTRACT

Capital Punishment is the highest form of punishment awarded in any country to maintain the law and order. Instead of focusing on the convicted, we should concentrate on preventing the crime that may happen in future. Further, we should adapt a different approach which is Reformative approach, so that one could improve himself and can leave peacefully thereafter.

There are various countries which abolished death penalty but still there are some countries which awards death sentence following different types of death punishments.

There is no credible evidence which shows that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment. States which have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates than the states without such laws. The criminal poses a threat to society, but he too is a part of that society and therefore should be reformed, not thrown out.