Pardon.

Let a 1000 guilty escape if one innocent is saved is a well known maxim.

yet it seems illogical and at the same time perilous to confer [burden] the power of pardoning on persons heading governments ,who are not trained in the nitty -gritties of law and could be easily swayed by public opinion.

Judges are the best authorities in such matters . It makes sense to allow the court reign supreme in this matter.



The Indian penal code provides death penalty on those who commit the offence of murder.Persons trained in law , highly learned with vast experience and expertise in dispensation of justice and who come face to face with the accused are most competent to deliver the ultimate sentence.

When even such men think twice before pronouncing the death penalty,I have come across judges who have spent sleepless nights after sentencing a man to death,how can a government run by politicians unaware of the labour and at times pain behind seemingly cold impartiality of Justice and easily swayed by feverish sentiments gripping the public ,be conferred with the pardoning power?

The power to impose the death sentence or the power to grant or not to grant pardon is a bit too queasy for me .Thank god I am not a judge or a head of a state!