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However you put it - life for a life? life for a death? death for death? death for life?

Following the Bradford, UK shootings very recently, where a police officer was shot dead during an armed robbery, there have been calls to bring back the death penalty for anyone who shoots a police officer.

What do you think? Is the death penalty a good idea? What does Gurmat teach us about this? Should life imprisonment MEAN life imprisonment, or is 20years long enough? Does the prospect of going to jail not deter criminals, rapists, murderers anymore?

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Nirvair S Khalsa Grand Master

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The death penalty is the easy way out

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For an innocent GurMukh - yes it is - for a Sant Sipahee of the Panth who is dying for Dharam to become Shaheed - yes it is - a GurSikh who does not fear death, remember, does not die...

...but on the other hand, for a ManMukh who may be guilty, it is NOT the easy way out, as for them it REALLY IS death, and they will get questioned by Dharam Raj and be punished in a form of hell and then once again sent back into the cycle of birth and death!

The death penalty is in no way an easy way out for the guilty ManMukh, it is the beggining of a REAL punishment for the soul, not the mere body.

d_oh.gifVaheguroo Jee Kaa Khalsa, Vaheguroo Jee Kee Phateh!!! d_oh.gif

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I dont htink a Sikh can give a death for death policy in this case. Theres a fine line if you think about it. If we look to GUru nanak Dev Jee Mahraj and how he went to SUJJAN THUG house and changed him from a man off evil to a man of god.

It all depends on the situation but i think one should give the chance for the person to change. I agree with sony thats a valid fact who knows how many people are truely sentenced even though they are not guilty of anything.

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I think if somebody is trying to kill another person, it is acceptable to kill that person if necessary to save the other person but if the person has already been killed its a different story. Now that we have prisons to insure that that the person wont come back and kill again, I think we dont need the death penalty. We need to let them live, and let them think about what they did.

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If you lock a murderer up for 20 years then keeping him/her locked up is going to require public funds. There is no point in locking up a person unless there is some sort of rehebilitation plan in place. Having said that, death penalty can work as a deterant and it should only be given in extreme cases and where there is no doubt about the person's guilt. i.e. Terrorist bombings.

Given the chance anyone can change, as Rsingh pointed out Bhumiya chor, sajjan thug, koda the cannibal etc, so its all very complecated wacko.gif

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the death penalty doesn't work as a deterrant to crime. the USA which still uses the death penalty and has a staggering prison population of 2 million is a good example of that.

furthemore not everyone who is convicted of a crime is definately guilty i.e birmingham six..

and putting someone to death isn't going to bring the victim back so incarceration and rehabilitation is the key for serious offenders.

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