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| Kalam calls for debate on death pen |
| Kalam calls for debate on death penalty
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| INDIA
, 6-July-2010
1:21:50 AM |
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While President Pratibha Patil has made it clear that she wouldn’t like to clear the entire backlog of mercy petitions pending with her, former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday suggested a national debate on the issue of death penalty.
“Certainly there are divergent views (on whether the country should persist with death penalty or do away with it as has been done by many countries). There should be a bigger national debate, preferably in Parliament,” he said.
While 139 countries have already abolished death penalty, India is among the 50-odd countries that still retains it. However, there is now a move afoot to change the mode of administering death from hanging to injection.
Kalam was responding to a question by The Indian Express on the sidelines of the annual lecture organised by the National Commission for Minorities (NCM).
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