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Monday
Dec122011

Why Capital Punishment Is Murder

It may be recalled that Troy Anthony Davis was executed sometime back, and so have many others been all around the world. While hundreds of people continue to wait on the macabre  sounding 'death row', it calls for a closer scrutiny of one of the most primitive forms of punishments meted out to humans. No matter what the crime is, if the punishment susses out the life of the person who is being punished, it is murder. Murdering criminals (or those who are assumed criminals, without enough proof to establish the crime like in Troy Anthony Davis' case) is an inhuman act, and not a punishment.

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