Yes to Justice, No to Death

Peoples Union for Democratic Rights Pudr

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Abstract: PUDR’s opposition to the penalty of death is three decades old. Like everything else our opposition on capital punishment is evolving and is a ‘work in progress’. Starting with serious objections to the arbitrariness inbuilt in awarding Death Penalty, the fact that almost all death row convicts have come from lower echelons of society convinced us of its unjustness and that in an unequal society even dispensation of justice is stacked against the poor.

Keywords: justice; death penalty; death row; convicts; society; poor; capital punishment; jails; rapists; punishment; Ajmal Kasab (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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