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Whenever a convict is awarded the death sentence, rights activists become active. After Dhananjoy Chakroborty's execution, no one heard anything from the intellectuals opposed to capital punishment. Suddenly, they have surfaced. Their behaviour certainly does not add to their credibility.
It is against natural justice to abolish the death penalty. Persons whose acts are a threat to the lives of others deserve the capital punishment. Every time a terrorist strike takes place, we find the intelligentsia reiterating that terrorists have no religion. So the fear that Afzal's execution will alienate a religious group is unfounded.
The death penalty cannot be seen through the prism of a single case. It calls for an overarching debate on crime and the nation's will to punish without appearing to wreak vengeance. Afzal's crime is an assault on everything the nation stands for, planned with cold precision. When he shows no repentance for snuffing out innocent lives, his family has no moral ground to plead for his life.
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