3 get death sentence for 1993 Mumbai blasts

This has hit the headlines of news today.
Circumstance that India is in right now, where substantial evidence could be bought with muscle power and money power, is it really advisable to give a capital sentence.

Punishment has been a mode of conditioning that our society follows to keep people away from doing wrong things. Here this conditioning could be in 100 different ways, depending on situation and circumstance.

The objective or morale of this is to restrain people from doing barbaric activities. What concerns me here is giving a death punishment, would that really help in anyway? We have a very strong and good judicial system, but can this judicial system see beyond the eyes and ears present at the court room?

I remember of a short story of Leo Tolstoy, in which he portrayed a fruit selling boy with his cart left unattended for some valid reason, and a thief running down the street finds this cart and hides his knife which becomes inevitable evidence before the court of this boy being the murderer. He gets sentenced for life after being considered his age. Here the court sentences based on the evidence they have seen and heard, but the fact is it was situation built on circumstance. The story ends with the actual thief coming into the prison and accepting the murder charges leading way to freedom for this lad who has spent half his life in jail. Here the lad was set free though very late, while was not given capital punishment which gave a ray of hope.

This story describes a circumstance. Our law says not even a single innocent should be punished even if 10 convicts are left free...

The pace in which our country is advancing, where nothing you see and hear are certain, belief has become a imaginative story, should capital punishment be a part of our judiciary system?

The conditioning of capital punishment is put forth to initiate fear in people so that they do not commit similar treacherous deeds, but in this age where we have suicide bombers, does this really form a conditioning of the right kind?

It is for all of us to react and understand, what makes these people different, they are also human, they do have flesh and blood, but their mental attitude …….? A psychiatrist could better explain. With the advancement and development happening to our country we also need change in our attitude and behavior toward our fellow beings. We need to grow over cast, creed, nationalism and understand the brotherhood of man. This would be a conditioning that would make a difference.