Death Penalty English Book

This is a compilation of articles, petitions and campaign statements on the Death Penalty in India by K. Balagopal. These writings contain compelling arguments for the abolition of Capital Punishment. They do so through persuasive reasoning about the inherently inhuman nature of the Death Penalty and through an interrogation of specific cases: those of two Dalit youth sentenced to death in the Chilakaluripeta bus burning case in Andhra Pradesh and the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. They not only forcefully set out the philosophical and civilisational basis for the abolition of Death Penalty but take every argument advanced in favour of Death Penalty and show the theoretical and factual fallacies in its reasoning.