Attitudes to the treatment of criminals

• community service: A way of punishing offenders by making them do unpaid work in the community
• Forgiveness: Showing mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
• Repentance: saying sorry, and a way of believers acknowledging to God that they have done wrong
• death penalty: Capital punishment; form of punishment in which a prisoner is put to death for crimes committed
• Sharia Law 


  Islamic law
• Quran 5:38: Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are man or woman, as punishment for what they have done - a deterrent from God
• Quran 24:22: .......let them forgive. Do you not wish that god should forgive you? God is most loving and merciful
• Rabia Terri Harris: Founder of Muslim Peace Fellowship, opponent of the death penalty