capital punishment:

capital punishment should be considered on a case-by-case basis!

Fundamentally, we live in (and a part) of a system that runs on mutual mistrust!

Just like the term moksha, the term "system" is ever elusive... the term makes comprehension easy, though we can't define it exactly..

in the following paragraph, I define a system as in a control system..

<-> is the equivalence operator

• system <-> governament
• input <-> people/enviromment/collective thought
• output <-> quntifiable varibles like (GDP, turn-over etc) and subjetive/difficult to quntify varibale like trust/ harmony..
• feedback <-> human-rights/judiciary etc

Then,

1. mutual mistrust is observed when the system is unstable!
2. if the sytem gain is zero (absolutely inefficient govt), the feedback has little effect on it
3. feedback could lend the system into an eternal unstable state irrespective of the "state" behaviour

How do we go about?

To reach the steady-state, we have to pass the transient state. It is in this state that we have to instill values, build mutual trust, using all "sama, daana.. etc upaayaalu"... capital punishment is one of the tools. Once it reaches the steady state, the system could sustain if the feedback is proper, like steam engine needs hazzar push to start, but once it starts, it requires relatively little energy to run on the tracks.. and hope that we may no longer need capital punishment..

death is THE punishment, not the method. in my view, it has be as painless as possible, even psychologically!