Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789382277781)

In Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment, Gopalkrishna Gandhi asks fundamental questions about the ultimate legal punishment awarded to those accused of major crimes. Is taking another life a just punishment or an act as inhuman as the crime that triggered it? Does having capital punishment in the law books deter crime? His conclusions are unequivocal: Cruel in its operation, ineffectual as deterrence, unequal in its application in an uneven society, liable

Author: Gopalkrishna Gandhi
ISBN-10: 9382277781
ISBN-13: 9789382277781
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2016
Pages: 158
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d