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Death Sentence : Is it necessary?

Recently, this discussion was sprouted as a result of another discussion we (Me and Raju Sir) were holding. The discussion was pivoted on 'How far it is necessary to award a death sentence-however serious the crime may be' and he (Raju Sir) seems to have good ideas and opinions which actually make sense, not only in a humanitarian way, but also in an economic and social ways.

Is it necessary for a person to be killed as a punishment to his crimes ?
Not exactly. The intent of a punishment is to make people know that they have done a crime and they are not supposed to repeat these acts, and also serves as a precedent to others who even think of committing a crime. Killing a person does nothing to him, although it triggers fear in certain people who think of committing the same offense. But, that alone is not enough, especially if you can do a lot more in addition. As the number of crimes being committed are increasing these days, fear of law is clearly declining which challenges your methods of punishment. Imprisonment is not so easy as it seems as it needs a lot of revenue, in terms of the food, shelter, water, medic care and others for the prisoners.
If jails can somehow be restructured to become self sustained, economically, that would mean a lot to the government which can now ease some amount to divert for other activities. So, for that, prisoners should be engaged in working most of the time they can, without paying them any salary, for 6 days a week. Of course, living conditions will have to be improved for this idea to sustain. And the generated income can be used for a variety of developmental activities in and around prisons.
In addition to that, as the prisoners will be kept working for 6 days a week, they need good medic care and that can be supported by the income generated. Blood can be collected from the healthy prisoners for blood banks and even organs can be donated to the hospitals after their death and may be even given to medical institutions.
As seen in the movie 'Shawshank Redemption', if the authority-in-charge are determined enough, he can find out the interests of the prisoners and allot work for them accordingly, based on the availability of such work. Not all the prisoners are illiterates. I think, there are many educated among the ones who have committed crimes. This coherent employment of prisoners not only instills self confidence in the prisoners, but can also generate free income which can be several lakhs an year, if tailored to the prisoners properly, with a little bit if care.

Follow the link for some more insights  http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/05/california-prison-industry-authority.html
If such good things can be done with those in the prison, why kill them?

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