DEATH PENALTY HAS TO RETURN.

The brutal murder of 2 policewomen in Manchester was a shocking event. Everyone knows our police are unarmed and yet their murderer appears to have deliberately lured officers to a house by using the pretext of a hoax burglary report and then killed them in cold blood.

 

Norman Tebbitt. a long standing supporter of the death penalty, has suggested that this ultimate penalty should again be considered in cases such as this. Indeed, it is difficult to understand why the death penalty cannot be reintroduced given the advanced state of forensic examinationas available in this modern era.

 

The driving force behind the abolition of this sentence was the fear of making mistakes. Cases such as that of Timothy Evans were used to raise such terrors in the minds of some people that abolition became a 'cause celebre' ; when the left-leaning wets who govern so much of our lives took up the cause en masse, abolition became inevitable.

 

For many years after the abolition, friends and family of the 'A6 murderer', James Hanratty, argued fiercely that he was innocent and had been a victim of another atrocious miscarriage of justice. Eventually, the authorities agreed to an exhumation of his remains and the conducting of DNA tests, which the family were sure would prove his innocence; what the tests showed was that Hanratty was guilty after all. In other words, the justice system of the time had got it right.

 

If the system of 1962 could be right, even in such a high profile and contentious such as Hanratty's, how can it be argued that we cannot risk having the death penalty today when science and surveillance are so much more spophisticated ? Perhaps it is the case that this is no longer the principle argument against capital punishment and that it's now all about compassion and rehabilitation even for the most heinous of crimes; we are told that the death penalty is simply barbaric and not for use by a modern, civilized society.

 

What the murderer of those 2 policewomen did was vicious and cold-blooded; it was barbaric. Such a person has, in my view, forfeited their right to life and, if proven guilty, should be executed. Why should the state be required to maintain such killers for the rest of their lives, now likely to be many decades ? Killers such as Ian Brady and Myra Hyndley, Donald Neilson, Peter Sutcliffe, Fred West, Harold Shipman and many others have no place in our world and arranging their exit from it does all of society a serious service.

 

Being civilized does not mean being soft and stupid; it means making proper reasoned judgements. Lord Tebbitt should be listened to and his words acted upon.