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Should capital punishment be given capital punishment? — A capital question

January 2004 · Praveen Kumar Jain

Keeping in mind the maxim salus populi est suprema lex, the article argues that death penalty must be retained for incorrigibles and hardened criminals but limited to rarest-of-rare cases — a penological, not merely rhetorical, question.

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