bit of insight into the term thug. There was a cult of Indian bandits called the, “Thuggee” that would travel around purposely deceiving people and eventually robbing and killing them. According to Guinness Book of World Records, the Thuggee were responsible for over 2 million deaths of unsuspecting travelers. The relation to the term now and then is very similar, but is also very different as well. The Thuggee were very disguised and clever with their tactics, whereas, the Thugs of the modern
The Use of Capital Punishment to Eliminate Repeat Offenders Capital punishment is the only way to eliminate repeat offenders, to deter potential murderers and is the ultimate retribution. “When I think of all the sweet, innocent people who suffer extreme pain and who die every day in this country, then the outpouring of sympathy for cold-blooded killers enrages me. Where is your sympathy for the good, the kind and the innocent? This fixation on murderers is a sickness, a putrefaction of the
powers during the process, British colonizers ignored this and constructed the narrative that ultimately men were responsible for the pressure to commit sati, in addition to other crimes they believed to be Hindu-specific such as infanticide and thuggee. Women who engaged willingly in these crimes admitted to it, but the newly installed British government continued to rely on the victimized trope of Hindu womanhood, using Hindu women as symbols to justify their colonial interference, furthering their