Why Ajmal Kasab should NOT be hanged

The capital punishment awarded to the Mumbai attacker is, in a way, representation of Indian public’s emotion; terming Ajmal Kasab as a “killing machine”, the judge awarded him death penalty, putting it amongst “rarest of rare” circumstances.
First of all, I must clarify that as a human, and more importantly as an Indian, I have no sympathy whatsoever for Ajmal Kasab in particular and terrorists in general; and my mind fills with extreme abhorrence against everyone who is involved in the heinous act of spreading terror. I can, at best, pity their perverted, depraved and sadistic mindsets, who believe that by killing and terrorizing their own fellow humans they can achieve their objectives – and to top it all, nobody knows, not even they themselves, what their objectives are; having said that, I still feel that Ajmal Kasab should not be awarded death punishment.
There are several reasons for this kind of iconoclastic belief, first and foremost being that I am against capital punishment – it is one of the those remnants of law which has managed to trickle down since barbaric times. It has no place in a civilized society because an institution (governments in this case) has no right to take something which for which it cannot provide any compensation or alternative. It goes against the very principal of natural justice.
Secondly, though by hanging Kasab Government of India will try to bring a closure to the families of victims – there are terrorist camps operating across the Indian borders where the trainers will present him as yet another martyr who suffered by brutal hands of Indian government. They are going to make Kasab a role model and train hundreds more like him who will be ready to unleash the atrocities upon the command of their masters. So, effectively what the government is doing right now is killing the pawn when the Queens and Kings are secure elsewhere.
Thirdly, and there is a philosophy attached to this argument, the idea of punishment is twofold; to make the culprit realize that he did wrong, so that he could never do it again and also to deter others from doing the same by setting the culprit as an example in front of them. Having this idea in mind, we can clearly see that fear of death has never prevented a terrorist from wreaking havoc – on the contrary, they have been brainwashed to an extent that death appears very romantic to them, so capital punishment has not proved as a valid deterrent to terrorists. Now for terrorist, in this case Kasab – I think death will be a too easy punishment for him, a better punishment for him will be life itself.
It is not hard to imagine that a condemned prisoner in death row is more worried about himself and his life rather than pondering over what he did wrong. Under Hindu philosophy, life is like a jail in itself – those who are able to get past cycle of birth and rebirth are those who attain moksha – freedom; is it right to set him free without even letting him contemplate the gravity of his crime? A better punishment for him will be to let him rot in prison, where he gets to ponder over what he did, without the fear of capital punishment, but knowing fully well that he is not coming out of the prison.
A better idea is to go all out at the countries which conspire against India and have them disassemble the infrastructure – which fortunately, Indian government is doing very well.That will present India as a compassionate nation – a great country which is that lets live petty individuals and provides them with means to correct themselves – yet strong enough to uproot the terrorism itself.