14 April 2004 :

The former judge of the Karnataka High Court in India, H.G. Balakrishna, said that imposing the death penalty on an individual was a primitive concept and when a person had no right to take away another human life, there was no logic or rationale behind the State executing that right. Balakrishna was speaking at the "South India regional convention against death penalty". Arguing against the very ethics involved in imposing death penalty, Balakrishna said there was no justification for capital punishment. Reformation should be the only punishment, he added.