Monday, October 09, 2006

Mercy… clemency.. pardon…..
I am sick and tired of these words!!

When it has been proved that a guy has been clearly associated with the terrorists for the attack on the parliament.. why shouldn he be hung?? Where is the question of mercy here?
He should be given presidential clemency just because he has a wife and a seven year old kid?? So any one in this country can do anything and get away from the punishment stating that he or she has a family to support?? The supreme court has laid down that death penality will be applied only in the “ rarest of rare cases’. And isn't this a rarest of rare case where the parliament has been attacked??

Capital punishment can be awarded only on account of two crimes- murder and sedation. This case is certainly a terrorist act of gravest severity!! And where is the question of human rights? When a person fails to do his duty, he doesn't have any right to claim his rights!! why should he be given the rights and be pardoned because he has a right to live.. the apex court is the only authority which can seize the right to live and it has done it… Is there any appeal against the Apex Court’s Judgment?
A citizen ceases to have any right the moment he is held as prisoner in connection with a crime. While so where is the question of the human rights for a prisoner, whether a convict or an undertrial?
Sympathy should not be misplaced. A misplaced sympathy would be havoc to the society at large. In this case attempt to blast Parliament in a democratic society is an attack on the civilization. Our system of democracy is well appreciated and when Mrs. Indira Gandhi was thrown out of power the whole world was surprised and understood our real power of voting!

12 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey nice one!!! gud thought

3:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey by the way know wat???do you know why they dont hang ppl tat easily?? cuz nowadays anyone could be framed... evn if they prove dem guilty they really might not be.....so its always to give a thought bout it before taking any hasty decisions... and that is the main reason why the parliment doesn give immediate capital punishment...

3:29 AM  
Blogger Mathangi Thiagarajan said...

i really wish our president doesn consider the mercy petition.
i just saw a debate in a news channel..
one guy said he shd be given a second chance..
second chance for what?? another attack?? this time on public i guess!!

5:48 AM  
Blogger Durga said...

mythu u cud become a cnn ibn citizen journalist/reporter. think abt it.. anyway yeah i truly agree with u.. well written..

7:22 AM  
Blogger Madhumitha said...

u r right in ur opinion on mercy petitions...infact encouraging mercy petitions in one of the reasons for the inefficiency of our legal system...but i don really agree with ur opinion on "rights to prisoners". even if a person convicted for a crime he has all rights to freedom of expression . thats what is quoted in article 19 of constitution. In the absence of this provision, people are bound to lose faith in the legal system as we claim ourselves to be democratic.If we go by ur logic of “ceasing the rights of the prisones” the it becomes an utter “tit for tat” game..then where is the question of upholding principles of huimanity???... but there are people who take advantage of this provision because submitting mercy petitions is a way of expression, as claimed by the relatives of many convicts...this was exactly the scenario in dhananjoy chatterjee's case in 2004...i personally feel that one way of avoiding this problem is to have a limit in the no. of petitions that could be filed...one more thing in this case is, if the convict really deserves mercy, then he should have, by now, revealed all the terrorist associations with which he was connected with..when he isn't ready to divulge any of those secrets for the national interest he deserves to be hanged!! btw...awesome thought! superb blog!!

7:45 AM  
Blogger mythreyi said...

that was a very nice valuable comment madhu.. thanks! i do agree with ur freedom of expression.. but that should not be misused to release a person who desreves a punishment of the highest order! thats my whole point..

8:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

very interestin mythu!gud one!

12:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmm...good one and very well put!

5:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know you've not been online for a long time but what the heck, I'm typing in my reply.

I feel that none of us as human beings or as a government have the right to take a life. The whole world sympathized with Saddam when he was hung though it knows that he killed more than 300 kurds, with poison gas. So, my point is... let the man be caged for life... they say some prefer death to sitting in a dingy 8X10 cell doing nothing... they say it drives people mad... now that would be a fitting punishment...

11:04 PM  
Blogger mythreyi said...

@ ashok
i don really agree with u.. the main reason for punishing a person is for others to learn a lesson from it! according to what u say i do agree tht the mental condition of the prisoner wud definitely change but not attitude of the society.. by society i mean the other culprites who aren given the punishment they actually deserve!

12:06 AM  
Blogger Mathangi Thiagarajan said...

way to go mythreyi! finally u atleast saw the comments in ur blog! :D

8:02 AM  
Blogger FrIcTiOn... said...

babe...way to go i m impressed!!!!!
chk out mine too!!

6:22 AM  

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