Capital Punishment History

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of
these crimes. These crimes, even today, are still viewed as
violent and should be punished with the highest degree of
discipline available to achieve justice.

After much public pressure, capital punishment was suspended
on a trial run in 1967. This proved to be ineffective, because
even though the law stipulated that crimes such as treason or the
murder of law enforcement agents, were still to be subjected to
the death penalty, the federal cabinet continued to commute those
criminals from death to life sentences, hence the law was not
being followed and justice was not being served. This soon was
followed with capital punishment's abolishment in 1976, as a
formal declaration of what was already happening or rather what
was not happening. It is felt that because of this and the fact
that there has not been an execution since 1967, that today's
current form of punishments are no longer a sufficient deterrent
for such serious crimes and have contributed to a ever ...

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