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On February 4, the Catholics@Home podcast highlighted another interesting topic — the death penalty. The invited guest was former Member of Parliament Kasthuri Patto who joined in from France.
“This goes to show that the death penalty is not effective as a punishment because people are still committing the crimes with no fear of death. This in itself defeats the purpose of the death penalty,” she said. She also mentioned that there were many underlying factors that could have contributed to the person committing the crime.
She went on to say that no judicial system in the world is perfect. Therefore, issues like bias, racism and corruption that are present in every level of society can also affect a person’s guilty verdict. She referred to a few cases of death row inmates in America who were exonerated after decades in prison simply because at the time of their trial, they were not tried justly due to human greed, selfishness or human error. The same could also be true for Malaysia.
“We can’t just be asking if one supports or opposes the death penalty. We should be putting ourselves in the offender’s situation and asking ourselves what we would have done if we were in that situation?” Fr Dr Clarence Devadass said that the Church strongly opposes the death penalty because we do not have the right to take a life. That right belongs solely to God.
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