COMMENT | Better for the party to choose the humanist path of doing away with this monstrous form of punishment.
| If there is one reform the Pakatan Harapan government has almost achieved, it is the effort to table a Bill to abolish the death penalty although they seem to backtrack whenever there is a crime of passion followed by a public uproar.
Isn’t the death penalty more monstrous than the amputation of limbs? In fact, the two rival parties of MCA and PAS seem to have arrived at an alliance to fight for the retention of the death penalty. For some puzzling reason, the DAP seems to be rather defensive against MCA’s onslaught and their top leaders have not come out openly to call for the abolition of the death penalty.
They may like to know that more and more Chinese in China, especially the better educated, are beginning to accept these humanistic concepts and starting to change their attitude toward capital punishment. In 1995, a survey conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Science indicated that 95 percent of ordinary Chinese citizens supported the death penalty but by 2008, the percentage had fallen to 67 percent, according to an online survey by Sina, a popular website.
Inhumane treatment of offenders does not resolve the damage done by their misdeeds or those of humanity in general – the best approach to an offender is reformatory rather than punitive. Punishment should only be to the extent to which the offender needs to make amends, and his or her rehabilitation into society should be of paramount importance.
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