Abolishing the Death Penalty by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Edition 2016
Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment
In Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment, Gopalkrishna Gandhi asks fundamental questions about the ultimate legal punishment awarded to those accused of major crimes. Is taking another life a just punishment or an act as inhuman as the crime that triggered it? Does having capital punishment in the law books deter crime? His conclusions are unequivocal: Cruel in its operation, ineffectual as deterrence, unequal in its application in an uneven society, liable like any punishment to be in error but incorrigibly so, these grievous flaws that are intrinsic to the death penalty are compounded by yet another
- Author:Gopalkrishna Gandhi
- Binding Type:Hardcover
- ISBN:9789382277781
- Total Pages:156
- Publishing Year:2016
- Language:English