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The wrong guy getting executed despite all the precautions:
One of the students (a married man with family) who was studying with us in
the Non-Degreed Professional English Language Program in 1984, was suddenly
absent for about two weeks, which meant he would be dropped from the program
due to excessive absences. When we issued the Final Drop Notice, we were
informed by his Department that he was behind the bars charged with murder.
In those days, capital punishment was applied immediately after one was
convicted. The authorities passed the sentence for the man to be beheaded
on a Friday. While the man was praying in his cell and preparing himself
for the beheading on the next day, a security officer entered the cell and
informed him that he was free to go home, as they had caught the real
murderer who had confessed to the murder. The man fainted at the news; he
was freed the next morning, which otherwise would have been his last day on
this planet. As a special case, he was reinstated in the program which is
when he told us the whole story. He was thankful to God for giving him a
new life.
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
>From : cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To : "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
<goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent : Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:22 PM
To : "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Subject : Re: [Goanet] Effects of Public Executions on Homicide Rates
Hi Carmo
Months ago, I had indicated my serious unease about your public up-side-down
crucifixion (computer spelling) and harvesting of organs strategy for
murderers in Goa. Now that this issue has come up again, there were several
points I had made, and for now, want to re-state just two of them: a) Your
proposal would require a change in the law in India as far as I can tell but
my hunch is that this would be most unlikely; b) Notwithstanding the
existence of capital punishment in India, imagine the disgust of the outside
world with Goa going back to barbaric times with your gruesome public
execution model. Public executions as in Saudi Arabia are viewed with great
repugnance. Do you want Goa's favourable image abroad to be so tarnished?
So that there is no doubt about my own position on state sanctioned murder,
when executions take place, I want to re-state that I am totally opposed to
the death penalty as is the case in the European Union. There are many
reasons and mine are very much like Aristo's, but one that worries me a lot
is the risk of the wrong guy getting executed despite all the precautions
taken. Mistakes like this have happened and will continue to happen among
humans.
Cornel
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