GAUGING THE MORALITY OF JUSTICE
Terry Goodkind once said, "Pity to the guilty is treason to the innocent". One of the putative purpose of Criminal Laws, is retribution i.e. punishing the people to set an example for others not to commit the same crime. Interestingly, another aim of these criminal laws is to ensure reform, in the sense that the guilty undergoes a reform so as to return as a positive individual into the society. These two purposes present a conflict of opinions and dichotomy of interpretations which is manifested in the likes of Capital Punishment. There are crimes whose sole punishment is death. Does this mean that those who commit such crimes have no scope for reform? Or, if interpreted the other way round, this dichotomy may also suggest that these crimes are so heinous that there is no coming back from such crimes and hence, death of the guilty is the only way to set an example. This debate certainly has no end and proponents of both schools of thought may debate for hours as to why wh
