India's Political Double Standard in Releasing Rijiv Gandhi's Assassins

However, victim's family and the supporters were expecting khan to receive a lifetime sentence rather than 40 years. They are also disappointed

David “Tsotsi” Madondo is a cold-blooded killer who deserves to be put in jail for the rest of his life for the heinous crimes he’s committed. Despite losing his mother to apartheid at a young age, Tsotsi is an extremely violent young man now with very little self-control who's also killed innocent people. Tsotsi has planned the killing of Gumboot Dhlamini, brutally assaulted his fellow gang member Boston, threatened Miriam, a woman who helped him take care of the baby forced on to him, he murdered a person on the train, and ran a street gang with Die Aap, Butcher, and as mentioned before Boston. Tsotsi absolutely cannot be allowed to go free for all of these crimes. It would be a massive injustice especially to the families of Tsotsi’s victims.

Comparing these two cases, the legal system did not really work fairly to show justice because if in accordance with the absolute interpretation of the 8th Amendment and the 14th Amendment, Gregg will never be sentence to death; this not only unfair to him but also disrespects for the authority of the legal system. Let us finally look at the case of “Callins v. Collins” in 1994, in this case, even though the convict Callins was put to death by lethal injection, there was a justice stood up to struggle on save Callins’ life, and his name was Harry Andrew Blackmun, who had voted in “Gregg v. Georgia” to restore the death penalty. Blackmun claimed that he had no longer supported the death penalty because he did not believe that the capital sentencing procedures were still working, and restoring the death penalty was a big

The prosecution reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter as they did not believe the requisite degree of reckless indifference or lack of mens rea were sufficient evidence to support the charge of murder. The use of discretion is outlined in the

The Secretary-General has urged Indonesia to remove the death sentence on the men awaiting execution, including Chan and Sukumaran, suggesting that the death sentence on drug related crime should be permanently removed (United Nations 2015). Furthermore, interviews and documentaries provided agreeing evidence that Chan and Sukumaran had been rehabilitated and worked hard to improve the environment for other prisoners; yet, President Joko ignored the evidences and refused to reconsider (‘Joko Widodo: No foreign interference on death penalty’, 2015). Consequently, the justice of the Indonesian law relating to drug crime was

On January of 1932, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled by a 6-1 vote that all but one of the eight men were guilty. Once again they were all sentenced to the death penalty. Then the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. The court ruled by a 7-2 vote that right of

Furthermore, the Supreme Court had o decided to deny the suspect appeal because of the horrific crime he performed that cause everyone to throw up a red flag interest being conflict from his lawyers. In addition the former governor at that time Gov. Jim Hodges reject the request and would be the first inmate to be executed since David Riceville of Duncan. In addition also in this case young accomplice where also sentence to death and still is appealing his conviction and Arthur Ray Jones the driver was sentence to 35 years from driving away from the scene calming to b drunk at the

An untold number of innocent people have been executed. As it is, many relatives of victims have said that they do not wish for their relative’s killer to be put to death. Circling back to Tutu’s quote, the government is not providing these families with justice – but with revenge.

In Neil Gorsuch's very first Supreme Court decision, he voted to permit Arkansas to carry out the execution of Ledell Lee. Mr. Lee has been on death row for over 20 years. Arkansas has not executed a prisoner in 12 years but is rushing to execute eight before the patent on the drug used expires the end of April.

State governments should provide compensation to the wrongfully convicted because it is their system that wasted the lives and took everything from these people. In “Reparations/Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted: Overview”, by Tsin Yen Koh, we see the early process of compensation laws and its history followed by our current laws and its different ways of registering for these reparations. The article first tells about how people began to notice wrongful convictions after a man first looked into one of these cases. Then, people noticed the wide range of mistaken sentences and began to use DNA tests to support these claims. After the majority of these inmates had the same wrongful story, George W. Bush passed a law that would help with

The author of this article, Chokshi, is a reporter and journalist for The New York Times. These accolades for one career are great. Chokshi has wrote other articles regarding the death penalty, so he is familiar with the subject. In this article Chokshi goes into detail about how the death penalty loses majority support. This is the first time in over 40 years that it has done so. The last time it was this low was 1971. Chokshi says, “ For the first time in almost half a century, support for the death penalty has dipped below 50 percent in the United States.” This article will be used in my paper by using the facts proven on why the death penalty has lost majority of in favor votes.

The number of prisoners that was executed under civil authority in the United States for the years 1977 through 2014 is going to be examined within this paper. This paper will examine the prisoners that was executed by the years, region, and jurisdiction. From 1977 through 1999 there was a steady increase within prisoners being executed. The United Stated had a total of 1,394 executions from 1977 through 2014. Majority of the executions occurred at the state level which had a total of 1,391 prisoners executed. While the federal level only had three prisoners executed, which the first two execution occurred in 2001 and there was one execution in 2003. The United States had its highest number of executions in 1999, with a total of 98 executions

Hello my dear judge, I'm here on the behalf of David “Tsotsi” Madondo for the accusations made by the prosecutor. I believe the prosecutor's sentencing is cruel and insensitive based on my clients past. He should serve jail time but not life, my client has been a victim of apartheid he's also been a victim of abuse, he's been abandoned which took a toll on him at only 10 years old. He was left to feed himself take care of himself. Which led him no other option but to join a gang. This gang gave him the security he needed. They fed him and put a roof over his head but also influenced his negative ways. This is where he learned to be heartless. I believe he deserves 1 year sentencing to pay for what hes done and some alternative punishment on

Today, there are over three thousand prisoners on death row. “Between 1972 and 1996, 68 death row inmates were released because proof of their innocence was found” (Acker, Bohm, and Lanier 232). Only after struggling

However, Gandhi’s popularity was destined to be short lived as many parts of the country soon burst into protest over increasing prices and inflation coupled with frustration over inefficient bureaucracy and red tapeism. These protests were most animated in states such as Gujarat and Bihar, where students marched on the streets and united around political activist, Jayaprakash Narayan. When in 1975, a judge in the Allahabad high court ruled that Gandhi’s 1972 electoral victory was void due to governmental interference in campaigning, the opposition demanded Gandhi’s resignation. The ensuing strikes across the country including those of public services such as railways coupled with the opposition’s relentless demands of resignation led Gandhi to declare a state of emergency in 1975 due to a state of internal threat. This decision effectively censored the free press and jailed opposition leaders, marking the start of a dark period in Indian History. These were the culminating political and social conditions in which Sholay was released in 1975.