Capital punishment - Doctrine of Torture and Kill

by BS Murthy in English Moral Stories

That hundred and forty years after Fyodor Dostoyevsky enlightened us against capital punishment, we still persist with it in some parts of our planet, belies our insensitivity towards the sensitivities of these condemned by the justice system of our ...Read Moremaking. What Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin said in The Idiot then is something forever, “When they announce the sentence, you know, and prepare the criminal and tie his hands, and cart him off to the scaffold—that’s the fearful part of the business. The people all crowd round—even women— though they don’t at all approve of men looking on. And I may Read Less