This is the heading in NST 21 March 2006.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said: "For me, a life is a life. No one has the right to take someone else’s life, even if that person has taken another life."
This seems to be a very noble idea but I wonder whether the feeling is the same if the victim is one of our loved ones. A death sentence will never bring back our loved one but it is one way to compensate for the loss. The penalty is just like a compensation for the victim's family - an eye for an eye. It has always been said that it would be better for the family to forgive the guilty party as another death serves no purpose.
Easier said than done and the harder to adhere if the perpetrator committed the crime mercilessly.
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