Urgent need to rethink the provisions of death penalty

Abstract

Capital punishment is an outcome of the different theories of punishment. However, it is a matter of active controversy worldwide. Debates regarding the retention and abolition of such activities have been in news now and then. Such decisions are dependent on a country’s social, economic, cultural situation and development, political ideologies of the parties forming the government in the respective countries etc. The term is debated in the light of the fact that when the government or the state is going to make the execution of someone because something wrong has been done by the person or the contravention of all that has taken place or the law has been breached on the grounds where the serious nature offence like murder and rape has emerged, then this the very term is elaborated and make effective at times.