CAPITAL PUNISHMENT- A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” ― Nancy Reagan Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violation of criminal law of the land. Since time immemorial people have been put into death for various forms of wrong doing. Methods of execution have included such practises as crucifixion, stoning,drowning, burning at the stake, impaling and beheading. Today capital punishment is typically accomplished by hanging. The Death penalty is a process, where the life of a person is taken by the State by following the due procedure of law. Capital punishment is, in all cases, given for the most heinous of crimes. During recent times, there has been a global trend to abolish the capital punishment. However, India has yet not abolished the capital punishment (though the Court awards the capital punishment in rarest of the rare case). What makes the capital punishment a unique form of punishment is the nature of i...