31 July 2015

A change for death penalty is necessary, for refinement.

Earlier death penalty was brutal, painful and public, later moved to less painful, more humane, and now they need to be abolished, for refinement. 

The architect and framers of the Constitution of India freely borrowed the good features of other constitutions. However, on 20 December 2012, meetings of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly adopted a fourth resolution (A/RES/67/176) on moratorium on the death penalty, where 111 countries voted in favour, 41 countries, including India, voted against, 34 countries abstained from and 7 countries were absent. 

But India voted against moratorium on the death penalty instead of 111 countries voted in favour, only 41 against. Since, the architect and framers of the Constitution of India freely borrowed the good features of other countries. Why not India, for good, voted in favour for moratorium on the death penalty? 

A change for death penalty is necessary, for refinement, in more civil manner, Abolish death penalty.

 Considering framing of Indian Constitution-

• The parliamentary system of government, law-making procedure besides others borrowed from the British Constitution.
• Fundamental Rights, Judicial Review etc adopted from the US Constitution.
• The federal system adopted from Canada.
• Directive Principles of State Policy borrowed from the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland


Nothing is above the Constitution, is it above the relative “truth” also?

The keepers of the Constitution of India interpret, “nothing is above the Constitution” However, I fail to understand, whether said consideration means the Constitution is above the relative “truth” also?