THE do-gooders who love the do-badders are at it again telling us that the death penalty is not a deterrent.
Do they have any statistics to support this claim? How many murders per head of population were there in the year before hanging was abolished and how many last year?
They also like to point out cases where people have been released after so many years in jail.
However, most of these are freed on legal technicalities they haven't been proven innocent.
If Kenny Noye had been executed for his first murder, he wouldn't have committed the second one.
Murderers in the USA fight for 12 years or more to escape the death penalty. Life without parole is a far more pleasing option for them.
Killers of police officers, old women and little children should be put down like the sick animals they are.
JOHN UTTING
Penhill
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