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Truly barbaric

Sir, — Your Editorial ``A barbaric relic'' (April 20) should stir the conscience of all right-thinking persons about the futility of awarding capital punishment.

The death penalty is as barbaric and brutal as the crime perpetrated by one human being on another, even as research has indicated that it hardly serves as a deterrent.

It is most unfortunate that even in the United States, which denounces human rights violations in other countries, the despicable practice of beaming execution proceedings through television to its citizens is adopted.

The time is ripe for a review of capital punishment at the level of the United Nations.

P.K. Varadarajan,
Chennai

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