capital punishment in Mauritius

so, what's your opinion? should it be brought back more than 20 years after its abolition?

c'est vrai ke bne recents evenements ti imper bizar. preske tous les semaines ena 1 crime attroce a maurice.

franchement eski zot penser kav ena 1 solution pou sa?

No, i'm against capital punishment.

The probability that an innocent is sentenced is too great! & actually if you want to implement capital punishment, the whole crime investigation procedures should change. There should conclusive evidence that the person has really committed the crime before doing anything.
But that's where MPF fails... they don't have anything close to a proper scientific police (no DNA testing, no evidence analysis). The FSL is hugely under-staffed & under-equipped.

This whole discussion in pointless. Instead of making the Police more efficient at combating crime, they are arguing on capital punishment.
Tackle the problem at the roots!

my guess is that "the re-activation of capital punishment" is merely a talk being used my politicians to cause fear amongst other things (do their own bidding).
there has been no rise in the number of crimes IMHO. with the increase in the level of access to information (esp. through radio shows which keep on nagging people about the atrocity of certain crimes), people are scared and believe that they could be next on the line to get killed.
an analogy to the capital punishment talk would be the publishing of the names of students who obtained seats in new colleges, after the SC exams, regardless of privacy issues, so as to increase transparency.
why increase transparency? 'coz nobody trusts the system and everybody believes that the system is corrupted.
in the case of capital punishment, transparency is replaced by security. don't you want to teach someone to be righteous instead of killing the latter for you've failed to put some sanity in one's life?
promoting education is the answer and it's one of the main knots in what can be called "a crisis of crises."
blame no one (some are blaming Ramgoolam. i blame parents, teachers and the actual rotten system which push one's will to success), try to solve current issues by tackling each crises till the crisis of crises is over. Sure, it will take time - but noone wants to have an innocent killed through capital punishment 'coz the existing system is wrong and has not been fixed yet.

yeah it's true. the risk of executing an innocent is too high.

another factor that must be considered is that capital punishment has never really produced results in countries which have adopted it or still do. the crime rate is more or less the same.

and those who perpetrate atrocious/bloody murders will not really be discouraged by the fact that they might lose their lives after that. they don't care. they are usually insane. they will keep on doing it whether cap punishment exists or not

forget about ethics... our judiciary system will look really stupid if something that has been abolished is brought back

i'm for the castration of male rapists though. cut the cigars!

I am against it as well. The system should progress and not regress.

we can use this post as a petition

without names and personal data. privacy matters

I don't think there's enough of us to call that a petition Let's just wait and see. My hunch is that since the PM himself is against it, capital punishment would not be brought back.

No way bringing this back...Life imprisonment must be introduced. Btw is life imprisonment already applied here??

No I don't think it's applied here.

Yes, it is... there was someone who was sentenced to death, but then capital punishment was removed. So he instead got life imprisonment.
& actually, i haven't seen anyone recently being condemned for life, but there were sentences of 40 years+.

Totally against it. It's like getting to the same level as the guy. And everyone has the right to live Joke apart, I'm against it. Will the death of the 'guy' be lesson to others? I don't think so. Life imprisonment is better. He'll have time to think about what he did and repent. May even turn onto a new leaf.

Sayuka told me about a film where someone was accused for a rape and it was just after his death that they realised he wasn't the rapist. Things like that may happen...

The problem with capital punishment is that in the end, only the poor and the unfortunate who will be executed. For as we all know, money does wonders sometimes, in some country.

I absolutely love Mauritius and I think the lack of justice here is the only thing that's wrong here.

I know people who did atrocious things, they lost their jobs (ti p travaye dan Gouvernement couma nu dire), they were jobless, the next party took over, they got their jobs back.

I was thinking a lot about capital punishment lately and I thought of something. Once justice is done, the guilty gets his sentence (say 5 years). But what about the victim? When does the victims sentence end? Does it ever? For this reason, I would say I'm for life sentence.

Besides giving someone life sentence means giving him food (that he has contributed in making) for the rest of his life, giving him 5 years is feeding him 5 years before he gets out and has no job and is bound to steal and do stupid things.

c vrai, life imprisonment is a more appropriate punishment for atrocious crimes. but then the issue of space in prisons might crop up.

frankly guys and girls i was about to say i am for capital punishment. then i read your arguments. it is true that the incidence of error can be high and we cannot bring back the dead if the person is proven innocent posthumusly.
i was thinking that capital punishment could create a fright in criminals. but as someone said here, those criminals dont think of all these before killing or brutalising. they just follow an "instinct".

so i vote against capital punishment too.

the so called "instinct" isn't passed on genetically. it's not instinct (unless you're referring to the instinct to kill which is a recessive gene rather than a dominant one.)
Still, they kill for a reason - rational or not. Why? - due to a combination of factors ranging from education to the environment they were raised in.

mo penser ki sa ti bizin en vigueur pou mane violeurs , mane pedophile et mane tueurs selman.

i am pro capital punishment in some cases. like the when the criminal admits committing the crime.

Ena so cas ki ariver lerla to gagne envie ki la peine capital ti encore exister. a coz sa souvent tane dir public ine attak criminelle la devant la cour ou bien dan station

I am against capital punishment. Most societies have evolved forward in a way so as to stop violence and I think that demanding death as a punishment is a step backward.

Eski
li normal ki enn boug viol enn zanfan ek li gagn enn penitans zis dezan
prizon ? Imazine sa ti ariv avek ou prop zanfan, ki ou ti pou resanti
kan ou trouv sa ? Ou ti pou dir li enn desizion zist ek imin, bizin
donn sans violer la pou sanze, ousoi ou pou kriye ki li enn desizion
BABAR ?

Eski li normal ki bann kriminel rant dan prizon meg ek
sorti gro ? Larzan piblik pe ofer zot bann bel bel meni ek gran gran
konfor.

Eski li normal ki enn foi zot sorti dan prizon, zordi ousoi dime, laplipar dan zot pou re-komet mem krim ousoi pli pir ?

Repons
la li NON! Li pa normal ki bann kriminel danzere dan moris pa per pou
pas devan ziz parski bann pinisyon-la pa efreyan ditou pou zot.
Okontrer, prizon inn vinn koumadir enn lotel kot bann kriminel al
repoze avan ki zot frap pli for, enn iniversite pou aprann kouma fer
pli gran krim ek enn paradi pou bann perver sexiel.

Bann
pinisyon ki soidizan bizin dekouraz dimounn fer krim pe ankouraz tou
kalite BARBARI ! Nou pe deza pe viv dan enn lil moris BARBAR, napa vinn
dir ki lapenn kapital pou fer lil moris vinn BARBAR kouma enn animater
enn radio prive !

Eski enn "Retour à la Barbarie" vedir nepli
ena pitie pou bann san pitie, nepli gaspiy larzan piblik pou nouri bann
kriminel danzere dan prizon ek nepli donn zot sans al gat bann lezot
"ti-prizonye" kinn komet bann ti krim dan prizon ?

Sel mwayen
efikas pou konbat BARBARI, bizin re-met Lapenn Kapital dan moris ek fer
bann lezot pinisyon vinn boukou pli sever. Get dan bann peyi kot ena
Lapenn Kapital ek bann pinisyon bien sever, sirtou dan bann peyi
Islamik, zot pou trouve kouma to-kriminalite bien ba. Mem Prezidan
Sanatan Darma lor enn radio prive rapel nou ki laloi Manu dir "si enn
adilt pa bon bizin ekart li, si ena 100 poison isi, ena 1 gate pa kapav
les sa 1 poison gate-la gat tou."


Aret perdi letan ar fer bann san konpran konpran! Si zot pa separ bann poison gate-la, tou poison pou gate ! Detrir zot !

Mo
pou al ziska dir ki kan pe dekapit zot (ousoi par lezot mwayen), bizin
fer li an piblik, ek pas li lor tele avek plizir redifizion, pou ki zot
tou per pou komet bann BARBARI dan nou pei ek ki Moris retourn enn
"L'ile Paradis" !

lemauricien refiz pibliye parski zot anti-lapenn kapital
pibliye lor sitweb defimedia le 16 Fevriye 2008