On
capital punishment
This refers to Amir
Zia's article 'Kindly resume hanging' (July 8). The moratorium on the death
penalty should continue in our country where even a minor government official
like a police constable can frame an innocent man and get a murder case
registered against him. Crimes continue to be committed even in those countries
where the death penalty is strictly enforced (like Saudi Arabia). In fact, it
is the abolition of capital punishment that often results in a reduction in the
crime rate.
If hanging is resumed, it
will mostly be the poor or those belonging to the minorities who will
inevitably suffer the most. I suggest that capital punishment should be
abolished altogether.
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
Printed
in The News, July 10, 2013
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