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Subject: Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects


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Caro.
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Date Posted: 02:52:20 06/11/01 Mon
In reply to: JCayan 's message, "Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects" on 18:59:12 06/08/01 Fri
 I couldn't argue this any better than J Cayan but I did want to add something.

If the UK (where I live) still used the death penalty a number of people convicted of terrorist offences would have benn hanged. These would probably have included the Guildford Four and The Birmingam Six all subsequently found innocent. The awful injustice of their convictions and imprisonment would have been compounded immeasurably and irretrievably by judicial murder. As it is they have been released albeit having unjustly served a number of years in prison.

To say that such things are *just mistakes* and any judicial system makes them is both true and insufficient.

Just recently an appeal on behalf of a man executed in the early sixties in Cardiff as been successful offering his family the slight consolation that their husband and father is no longer a convicted murderer in the eyes of the law. His principle crime seems to have been that he was poor, foreign and spoke no English. The litany of poor police practice, racial discrimination and malice makes one ashamed to be British.

Caro.
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Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjectsWyldchilde04:42:05 06/11/01 Mon

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