Purpose of Punishment

The purpose of punishment is not only to chastise someone for a crime, but also to discourage future occurences of the same. When the punishment doesnt deter someone from committing a crime it has failed as a punishment. In that regard, todays punishments have lost their direction, crimes have been on a rise, and will do so until the punishment system is corrected.

The law belives that it is better to pardon a 100 criminals than punish one innocent man, and also that one is innocent until proven guilty. These are the two basic tenets of Law or rather the basis on which the courts of justice function. Many places are doing away with the death penalty saying its inhuman, and there is more and more clamour or humane treatment of prisoners, human rights et all.

I think suffering, emotional and physical is a better form of punihment than death. We are all going to die, just a question of when and why, so death isnt such a big deterrent, but all of us arent goin to suffer emotional and mental trauma, well then thats a strong form of punishment.