Charles Khoviwa v. The Republic –Death Penalty Declared Unconstitutional In The Country Of Malawi
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Malawi Supreme Court abolished death sentence and held it derogatory to right to life.
The various legal provisions awarding death sentence were declared to give a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
India still has the provision of death penalty even after various appeals and holds it to be not unreasonable.
The assaulters should be subjected to a harsher punishment than death for a crime of such intensity that the provision of death penalty is an option before the Court to be awarded.
Introduction
The concept of punishment includes various theories of punishment. One of the theories is the theory of deterrence which targets to create a fear in the minds of the people against committing a crime. When a person is aware of the fact that his actions would be punishable and might lead to his death, he would most likely not commit the crime.