Turkish Minister for Industry and Trade casts light on the status of capital punishment. Below is translated from the online edition of daily Hurriyet. There is an obvious flaw with this train of thought which is imported from the EU. Even if someone is caught red handed, there is no way to subject him to capital punishment.
THERE IS NO GOING BACK
Capital punishment is back on the agenda in Turkey and particularly in Kayseri following the outbreak of the news on murder of the kidnapped children in the province.
Minister Ergun thinks one of the major concerns that lead to the abolishing of the capital punishment in Turkey was the probability of false convictions. He said there are instances where a document found 10 years after the execution that might prove the innocence of a suspect but there is of course no going back after execution. He said this point has induced a trend against capital punishment in the world. Since Turkey acts in line with the EU principles, capital punishment is also abolished in Turkey.
"IT IS NOT THAT CERTAIN CRIMINALS DON´T DESERVE DEATH SENTENCE."
"There are crimes justifying capital punishment in the world´s societies but since there can be false convitions, and some people can be proven innocent after years, we can restore justice to those affected by false convitions at least with a delay.
If you kill a murderer, you will be a murderer too. Death penalty is a bigger crime against humanity than murder. Because you torture criminal with that sentence spiritually, mentally and physically. Nobody can easily live with knowing when he/she will die. This is the real hell for a human being. To sentence someone to death is more cruel than murdering someone. There is an excellent novel of Victor Hugo about death sentence. Its name is "The Last Day of a Condemned Man " (Bir İdam Mahkumunun Son günü
. You will understand why death sentence is a crime against humanity clearly after you read it.
