Attitudes to the treatment of criminals and Death Penalty

• corporal punishment: punishment of an offender by causing them physical pain - now illegal in the UK
• Forgiveness: Showing mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
• death penalty: Capital punishment; form of punishment in which a prisoner is put to death for crimes committed
• Karma 


  moral action and reaction
• Maya 


  illusion
• Artha: One of the four aims of human life; earning a lawful living.