 the abolition of capital punishment bill, 2016 a billto provide for abolition of capital punishment in indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1  (1) this act may be called the abolition of  capital punishment act, 20162 (1) capital punishment is hereby abolishedabolition of capital statement  of  objects  and  reasonscapital punishment is barbarous and inhuman which goes against the ethos of a modern civilized society the savage act of capital punishment raises the moral question whether the state has the right to take away someone's life that is why the united nations has decided to appeal to countries all over the world to do away with capital punishment many nations around the world have already heeded the united nation's appealsome one who has comitted the most brutal and heinous crime should not be treated as a person to be done away with a civilized society should have an attitude of compassion, sympathy and rectification towards these criminals even a hardened criminal would think and rethink when the society helps him to change and allows him to live and work with them a life sentence is sufficient for a person to repent and change his ways to become a good citizen again the attempt of a civilized state should be to provide enough opprotunity for its citizens to realize the wrong he has done and to rectify himself to be a good man and a good citizenhence this billpradeep tamta rajya  sabha———— a billto provide for abolition of capital punishment in india————(shri pradeep tamta, mp)gmgipmrnd—4935rs(s3)—10-03-2017