Originally posted by: Minnie
I would say punishment should fit the crime. Compassion and justice might actually be the side of the same coin. Showing compassion to a criminal after the sentence has been delivered should depend upon what kind of crime was committed. For example, a man raping and killing girl deserves no compassion, a mob lynching a man to death because he said a few objectionable words to someone, or a mother in law driving a daughter in law to suicide through mental torture deserve no compassion. But a woman killing her husband after years of oppression and abuse deserves some compassion. But the bottom line is, punishment should fit the crime. A man cannot be hanged because of a murder he 'might' have committed. Now, even if it is established that the murder did take place and he might be guilty, again it will depend why the murder was committed.Compassion completely depends on the reason of the crime comitted.
Succintly put Minnie...👏
BTW,here's an article I found in today's paper...
My son tried to hang himself
Afzal's wife Tabassum, who met President Kalam on Thursday, told him how 7-yr-old Ghalib tried to get a feel of the noose that awaits his father
Lakshmi Iyer
New Delhi: What did Tabassum, wife of Mohammed Afzal Guru — who is on the death row for his role in the December 2001 Parliament attack case — told President A P J Abdul Kalam when she met him at Rashtrapati Bhavan?
She told him about how her seven-year-old son Ghalib lined up pillows and tried to hang himself after returning from school one day. Reason: His friends at school teased him, saying his father was soon going to be hanged.
Ghalib wanted to feel the pain his abbu would have to undergo.
When the President turned to Ghalib and asked him what he wanted to be, the child said, "Please set my father free. I want to be a doctor when I grow up and fulfill my father's dreams."
According to Afzal's lawyer Nandita Haksar, the President "listened to all that we had to say".
She said, "He promised to carefully go through all the documents attached to the mercy petition, which was handed over to him by Afzal's mother Ayesha Begum."
The President's Office has already forwarded the mercy petition to the Union Home Ministry.
President's Press Adviser S M Khan said, "The President acts upon a mercy petition just as he takes other decisions. He acts on the aid and advice of the Union Cabinet, law and home Ministries. State governments are also consulted whenever necessary. The President does not grant clemency unilaterally. In fact, the nodal officer to process such applications/petitions is in the Union Home Ministry."
Lawyers say Afzal's mercy petition will be considered only when the political temperature cools off. In fact, Khan says 20-25 mercy petitions are already pending in various stages of consideration.
LAYWER BLASTS MEDIA
Haksar is furious over the media's use of language to describe Afzal. According to her, despite the apex court having acquitted Afzal of charges of belonging to any terrorist organization, media still loves to call him a JeM operative.
• Please set my father free. I want to be a doctor when I grow up and fulfill my father's dreams - Afzal's son Ghalib to President A P J Abdul Kalam
| Afzal Guru is to be hanged on October 20 |
I really dont think this guy deserves any compassion...SO if this fellow's absolved,then it would further embolden the other radical elements...People fear death,no one fears a 10 year imprisonment..I feel sad for that poor kid,but this Afzal Guru should have given it thought before staining his hands with blood....7 police officers were killed,its no joke.....
Anupamaa
