The death penalty is back on the agenda, at least it is on the Isle of Wight, and not before time. Never mind the same old same old bleating of the bleeding-heart brigade, it’s time we started acting on this subject instead of talking, and talking bollocks most of the time.
Fantasy-land inhabitants will tell us that it’s not a deterrent and they will use the US murder rate as the main thrust of their argument. My response to that is that they don’t really have a death penalty in the US. It’s a ‘sort of’ death penalty. It can take decades before the guilty are seen off, if at all. Why? Because the legal teams carrying out the prosecution didn’t do their jobs properly and consequently left all manner of loopholes open.
The bleeding hearts will say there will be wrongful convictions. Yes, there might well be, but only if the legal eagles don’t get their facts right before a case comes to trail, not twenty years later. We have to begin somewhere. It’s as clear as daylight that our current path of molly-coddling doesn’t work.
