Bring back the death penalty
THE tragic events in Southport, involving the murder of several very innocent, very young children, and the life-threatening injuring of many other children and a couple of adults (“Families pay tribute as third victim dies after horror knife attack at holiday club”, The Herald, July 31) are yet further examples of deliberate, horrific, murderous acts committed against innocent members of our society.
Add this most recent event to the murders in the not-toodistant past of at least two Members of Parliament; for certain there have been others.
Against this background, I am certainly not alone in suggesting that our observance of the Human Rights Act, with respect to the perpetrators of these crimes, is frankly and wholly absurd, and if proven guilty, these perpetrators should be dealt with by our re-establishing capital punishment for such crimes.
The majority of members of our society are sick and tired of seeing perpetrators of such ghastly, sickening acts of murder get away with a jail sentence – at the taxpayers’ expense – when they really, by their proven, horrific actions, do not deserve or have the right to exist in our society, even behind what are relatively “soft” bars, even if that is for the rest of their lives.
The re-establishment of capital punishment for those proven guilty beyond any shadow of doubt for such heinous crimes must be brought forward, as a priority, by our law makers, and those who would protect the human rights of such evil, murderous individuals be silenced in way of common sense, allowing society to a) eradicate itself of such evil individuals and b) send a strong message to any others who might be considering committing such heinous acts.