Execution or imprisonment, which one deters perpetrators of crimes?
Legal Counsel Dr. Youssef Al-Sharif said that punishment has goals and objectives, as it is a punishment for committing the crime on the one hand, and it is also a means to deter anyone who is tempted to commit the crime.
He pointed out that achieving the goals of the punishment is not in the severity of the punishment in itself as much as it is a relative matter that belongs to each individual separately, although there are crimes punishable by death, but this did not prevent the perpetrators from committing these crimes, nor did it deter others from the same Actions, while the penalty of a fine may be more deterrent in the minds of many people, adding that our words may be strange to some, but we are accustomed to the frankness of the hadith and the logicalness of thought and opinion. Where he finds relief from his suffering, he does not care.
As for the penalty of imprisonment for a long period, especially if it is with hard labor or large fines, then the person stands a lot because in prison he will suffer himself and will continue to carry them behind him from family and others, and as for the fines, he will also bear them and be a burden on him even if they are available with him because it will definitely be on other things account.
During the fourth episode in the episodes broadcast by "Emirates Today" on its platforms to shed light on the newly issued laws, Al-Sharif referred to the texts of Decree-Law No. 34/2021 regarding combating rumors and cybercrime, which we noted that the penalties he set for all crimes contained in it range from life imprisonment. To temporary imprisonment and then imprisonment, in addition to fines, confiscation and penal measures such as ordering the convict to be placed under electronic surveillance, depriving him of using any information network, or placing him in a therapeutic shelter or rehabilitation center, closing the offending site or blocking it in whole or in part for a certain period.
He noted that this law did not provide for the death penalty, which carries with it many meanings and concepts, the most important of which is that the Emirati legislator, through this law, is in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Amnesty International protocols that call for the abolition of the death penalty and the replacement of deterrent alternative punishments such as imprisonment, imprisonment and heavy fines and others.
He expressed his support for that because executing the offender may have mercy on him despite the woe of what he did, so his imprisonment with him working in hard labor for a long period is the best punishment, and it would be better if the sentences in these crimes were public so that hearts are warmed and they become an example for those who consider truth and not abstract words Bearing in mind that the legislator did not leave the matter at all because he took into account that there are crimes according to their gravity in themselves or the gravity of their effects to the severity of the punishment, so he included a general text that it is permissible to apply any more severe punishment that is mentioned in other laws such as the Penal Code, especially for crimes against the security of the state and the unity of the state Society and its security and territorial integrity
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