One of the primitive methods of punishments believes in the fact that if severe punishments were inflicted on the offender would deter him from repeating that crime. Beginning with the Age of Reason in the eighteenth century, the aim of the criminal law has gradually changed from punishment for its own sake to punishment as a means of improving social behaviour. Punishment is designed not to take revenge but to terrorize the future offenders. An exemplary punishment should be given to the criminal so that others may learn a lesson from him. An eighteenth century judge, while awarding death sentence to a person guilty of stealing a sheep observed: "You are to be hanged not because you have stolen a sheep but in order that other may not steal
