WHAT IS KILLING?

The meaning of murder is the unlawful intentional killing of one person by another. Killing means an act that causing death on others. According to a research that had been care out by some of the researcher there are four state of mind recognized as set up cruelty. Firstly, have the intention to kill.

Then, have the intention to impose dangerous physical harm. Reckless indifference to an unjustified high risk to human. Lastly have intention to commit a serious crime. The first murder that was believed happened in this world was the Prophet Adam a.s ‘s son, Habil. He was killed by his own biological brother name Qabil. Qabil took the decision to kill his own brother when he disappointed because he was not able to marry his twin sister, Iqlima. After, he killed his brother, he tried to keep away the dead body but he had no idea how exactly he supposed to do. Finally, Allah s.w.t gave him an idea how to buried his brother’s dead body. Qabil saw a bird that tried to bury another bird by dig a hole and then bury the bird in inside the hole and lastly cover the body using the sand.

According the Quran, the most greatest sins in this world is kill a human being who has not committed any wrongs. But then, the accidental killing are call as homicides.   The crime committed in a criminal homicide is determined by the state of mind of the defendant and statutes defining the crime.

According to the research that had been carried out World Health Organization in 2010, The report estimated that in 2010, the total number of homicides globally was 468,000. More than a third (36%) occurred in Africa, 31% in the Americas, 27% in Asia, 5% in Europe and 1% in Oceania. Since 1995, the homicide rate has been falling in Europe, North America, and Asia, but has risen to a near "crisis point" in Central America and the Caribbean. Of all homicides worldwide, 82% of the victims were male and 18% were female.[5] On a per-capita scaled level, "the homicide rate in Africa and the Americas (at 17 and 16 per 100,000 population, respectively) is more than double the global average (6.9 per 100,000), whereas in Asia, Europe and Oceania (between 3 and 4 per 100,000) it is roughly half".

The death penalty, is a legal process that a person is put to death by the state of punishment for the crime. In some country, if there the murderer were found guilty, the death penalty was always be the best punish them for what that had done towards the victims. In Arab Saudi, they still using the Hudud law or also known as Islamic law. This law are follow the Quran and hadiths of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The death penalty always become the controversy in some various countries and state. Some of them found it too cruel and inhuman. Although many nations have abolished capital punishment, over 60% of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, such as the People's Republic of China, India, the United States of America and Indonesia, the four most-populous countries in the world, which continue to apply the death penalty. In Malaysia, we also practice this method as one of the method to punish the murderer.

There has been much debate about the reason of imposing death penalty on individuals who have been detected with unstable mental. Some have argued that the execution of people with unstable mental constitutes cruel and unusual punishment as it pertains to the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and while the U.S. Supreme Court has understood cruel and unusual punishment to include those that fail to take into account the defendant's degree of criminal culpability, it has not determined that executing the mentally retarded constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. This is why some of the countries in this world not agreed with this such punishment.