Please anyone have an idea on why judges destroy their pen after pronouncing death sentence?


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Here are the reasons why this practice continues in our courtrooms even today:

1. The practice is symbolic of the belief that a pen which is used to take away a person’s life should not be used ever again for other purposes. In other words, the pen has ‘tasted blood’, and thus it needs to be broken so that it doesn’t take another life.

2. Also, after the judge passes the death sentence, he has no power to review or revoke his order. So once the sentence has been awarded and the judge’s signature inked, the nib is also broken, symbolic of the fact that the judge cannot cancel or rewrite the judgement if he/she has a change of heart or mind.

3. Some are also of the belief that judges simply do away with the ‘tainted’ pen (having ordered the death of a person) as a way of distancing himself/herself from the judgement and the guilt of the same.

The pen ink Na blood

He is washing his hand just like pilate in the case if Jesus

Just like pharaoh

d pen did d sentence n needed to be destroyed bcoz we all die once..

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Lalasticlala na this kind post suppose make fp ooo

It has become bloody.