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May 19, 2005
Dara Singh gets life instead of death!
Australian missionary Graham Staines & his two minor sons were sleeping in their jeep on January 22, 1999. A mob headed by Dara Singh attacked them, and set the jeep on ablaze killing all the three! What was Graham doing in Orissa? He was spreading the message of God. Is preaching a sin?
Now after 6 years the courts have finally decided to punish the culprit. And what is the court’s verdict? Life imprisonment!! Meaning – the government will keep Dara Singh in the cell, feed him for life & probably someday if his conduct is good will be released on Gandhi’s birthday. That way Dara Singh will never realize the pain Graham Staines & his sons underwent when they were burnt alive, and the pain Staines’s wife would undergo for her life.
There are a set of people who think capital punishment should be banned & that everyone should be given a chance to change. I wonder if keeping a person behind the bars could ever change anyone. I am sure the people who are affected directly have an altogether different opinion about capital punishment. If your close person is killed this way, and you know who the killer is – I am sure you won’t be talking about Human Rights.
Violence has always been part of Human Civilization, and it surely can be used to put an end to few heinous crimes like killing someone or raping the minors!!
Being a Jesus Christ is easy, when your neighbour’s daughter is raped by the security guy. What if your own innocent daughter is raped & killed? You will wait for the police to arrest him, and then go to the court & say please don’t hang him –give him a chance to change? Come on!
The Tsunami affected people are temporarily asked to camp near my vicinity. They did a demonstration demanding – bus, water & street lights. They did a rasta roko at peek hours blocking the traffic & putting all the office goers under stress. The police came down, did the negotiation job –nothing worked. They were forced to do a lathi charge, and in 10 minutes the traffic was on track. Violence worked!
Whether Capital Punishment will make the culprit realize his folly is not the point. But the fear that a person will have before committing a crime is what matters. I doubt whether any person would think about stealing anything in Arabian countries or raping someone there – for they know what will be cut if they indulged. Of course capital punishment can never put a full stop to any crime, but then it surely will reduce the number.
If Lord Krishna wanted he could have blessed the Kauravas, and walked off. But no, Adharma should not be allowed to win in a society. And even killing to save Dharma isn’t a sin.
Posted by Kenni at May 19, 2005 06:46 AM