Murders, terror acts, rapes, heinous crimes against women and weaker sections of society are getting more and more common in our country. Justice demands that such criminals be awarded death sentences. Many murderers sentenced to death were found to be habitual criminals who had earlier committed murders, rapes, robbery, etc.
Statistics bear testimony that crime rates are higher in countries where death punishment is abolished as compared to the countries where it is still in place. In this regard I would like to quote the examples of the USA and KSA. In educationally and economically more advanced American society where death sentence is abolished crime rate is highest, while in under-developed Saudi Arabia where death sentence and other Islamic laws are in force, crime rate is lowest. The Qur’ān says murder of a single human being amounts to murder of whole humanity.
G. Hasnain Kaif
Maharashtra