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Spare the Noose - Let One Live

Spare the noose - let one live! Just moments and life's gone, for the lives one hack and for it never to come back! Isn't justice flawed with 'glee' to adorn? The noose has a strong say and so do the bullet! Can one take a call with ballet, to snatch a beautiful life away? So easy to take than to give - easy to take a tooth for a tooth and eye for an eye ! Won't it soothe, to keep a person alive? If a single person's decision that took life is wrong, so, will be - a collective throng! Can justice be seen in 'retaliation'? Civilisations claim to civilise - by deliberately inflicting pain and causing agony only to gain! How is it an attempt to harmonise? Taking life by force in a system, meticulously planned and with the gallows manned - Who rests authority for any such dictum? Rules are guidelines laid by the man, for the man - for humanity to steer, itself to sheer and for some to fear! Gives no right to kill - ain't it time to ban? And how qualified, a Judge, to ascertain the quantum? Doesn't outcomes of a post-mortem, reveal their susceptibility to fudge? What is travesty, if this is not? In a civil world with respect for life, survival - a day-to-day strife! Isn't this for sure - an ugly face of human rot? Life formed is by its own will, from Life by life's own choice, and not by any fancy voice! Why plague it with collective ill? Look at corrective steps instead, even incarceration till death, or community service till end cometh! Kill for a kill will only make hatred spread! Executing executions even on ones own self, when all the wrongs to right with might, fall flat on the face and not worth a fight! Won't condoning surge from deep within the 'Self'? Find space in thy heart to forgive! Religion that imparts killing as a tool, of course paves way to 'paradise for a fool'! Can't retributive justice be seen by letting one live?

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