Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department has called for the abolishment of death penalty as he was in the opinion that it’s incorrect to take someone’s life. He is probably right as the justice system may not be perfect and there could be possibilities that death penalty be handed down to innocent people.
Many months ago the government of Taiwan had also called for the abolishment of death penalty but it was strongly opposed by certain quarters. Bai Bing-Bing was one of the Taiwanese artists opposed strongly to the proposal by the Taiwanese government to abolish death penalty. The poor lady lost her only daughter who was murdered by the kidnappers. The cruel kidnappers cut the finger of the poor little girl and sent it to her mother demanding ransom. Bai Bing-Bing had said that she would never forgive the kidnappers and cursed that these people rot in hell. For money, some people can even kill a small little girl, and who are they to have the right to take away other’s lives?
Death penalty serves little purpose to deter serious crime such as murder or drug trafficking as such things happen everywhere, with or without death penalty. But if someone has killed somebody else intentionally, then his or her life should also be taken away through a fair trial otherwise, there will be no justice in this world, as some people simply do not value life. Two days ago, a security guard murdered two of his colleagues simply because of a small argument and today, a homemade bomb which was intentionally placed in front of an apartment in Cheras killed one lady and injuring a few others. Thousands of lives killed by the 911 terrorists and do they deserve only life imprisonment or something more justifiable?
1 comment:
well said, blogger-ooi.
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