We need the death penalty for premeditated murders now! Some will argue that the death penalty will not stop the murders. If we buy that argument, then we should have no penalties for crimes in the world, because people continue to commit crimes. We could start by abandoning the practice of issuing traffic tickets, because it has neither stopped poor driving habits nor reduced the number of lives lost on our roads.
Our first challenge is to make sure that we can arrest and convict those murderers. We should then have a system that would take only a year to resolve those cases in court.
Anyone who protects or intimidates a witness in a murder case should either get the death penalty or a life sentence at hard labour on conviction.
You will notice that the murder rate has dropped over the past year, while the police killings have gone up. We need to know if the police wiping out some of these murderers has had an impact on the annual number of murders in Jamaica. If the state refuses to implement the death penalty, then jungle justice will continue, and the police will get rid of them. Jungle justice and extrajudicial killings are wrong because innocent lives can be lost. That is why it behooves us to reintroduce the death penalty.
Locking up a murderer for life is to punish the taxpayers, who will have to be responsible for the upkeep of a prisoner for life.
Some argue that man not give life; therefore, he should not take life. Give that argument to the murderers.
We need a system where, working with the courts, we can identify those who might be associated with committing murders. Their pictures should be circulated to the whole of Jamaica so that they cannot hide from anyone. (Now we understand the importance of NIDs) If they fail to report to a police station within six months, then the police will not guarantee that they will be brought to court alive. They could be taken to the hospital and then to the morgue. We would now see them as local terrorists.
Those who are sorry for murderers will only change when someone close to them has been killed. Some of us who are in positions of power might not support the death penalty since our relatives and friends could end up on death row. We talk about CARICOM speaking with one voice; Jamaicans need to speak with one voice in dealing with these cold and heartless murderers. Let the death penalty come alive.
All premeditated murderers are to be treated as adults and treated equally except for children under 12 years old. The judge would decide when someone should face the death penalty based on the facts presented in the case and the pleas put forward by the DPP and the opinions of close relatives. Any assets owned by the murderer should be forfeited by the state and placed in the estate of the victim
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Well said sir derby 😀
ReplyDeleteI say NO!!!
ReplyDeleteToo many who cannot afford a good lawyer will be killed/murdered/hanged!
I come from Austria and we abolished death penalty after the Second World War - having sent countless innocent people together with the German Nazis to the Death Camps!!!