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Death Penalty In Trinidad & Tobago - Page 2

Name: Lady

Comments: The authorities do not have to ask anyone's permission to hang convicted murderers who have been sentenced to death by our High Court.

The Privy Council which is the country's highest Court has ruled, however, that no more than five years must elapse between the date that the death sentence is imposed on the convicted murderer and the date of his execution. The ruling says nothing about the length of time it takes "to solve a case"

But bleeding heart abolitionist attorneys - aided and abetted, albeit unwittingly, by an incompetent, lethargic and moribund judiciary and an archaic criminal justice system - have succeeded in frustrating the State's implementation of the death penalty.

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Name: Maco

Comments: I don't think the reintroduction of the death penalty will have any great impact on the crime situation but since the country is flooded with s-xual related crimes (specially against kids: Sean Luke, etc) I would definetely be glad that in cases like this one, the sick bastards who harmed and killed children can be executed without mercy.

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It is a system of abuse if you keep a man on death row and not follow through. It is also abuse to seek the death penalty in a case but then take years and years for a case to go through the court system.

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Abuse? Hope you're not serious. I don't consider that abuse, I consider them being "Lucky" Because they should be dead as far as I'm concerned.

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Name: George

Title: The death penalty

Comments: I read that the Prime Minister is planning to have another attempt to re instate the death penalty which is good news. I hope the PNM politicians have now come to their senses and would give their full support to the government to achieve this goal.

The reintroduction of hangings will have a threefold effect.It will act as a deterrent,reduce the population of imprisoned killers awaiting to be executed, and most of all, reduce the burden on the police in dealing with the galloping rate of senseless killings of innocent citizens.

I hope the PNM politicians now understand the full reasons why they must support the government .It is in the public interest that they put their urge for political party points aside this time round.

UPDATE: The comment by the 'Lady'is well said ,she however forgot to mention that the MAIN stumbling block to the retrun of hanging here is the lack of support from the PNM and its politicians who have turned a blind eye to the everyday murders of innocent civilians by putting party political tactics first before the lives of our citizens,and a tremdous workload on the police system.

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Name: George

Title: The death penalty

Comments: The comment below is in response to some one who wrote to the Express today and is surprised at the Prime Minister's attempt to try to re-instate the death penalty.

The death penalty is the answer to the constant annual high rate of murders here despite what some may say. In this small island we have all the necessary ingredients which are used and encourage the perpetual the random and willful murders of innocent citizens.
We have a supply of illegal drugs, avarice,the example set by people of status dappling in corruption,and incompetent police force,which is associated with under manning and the abundance of serious crimes including random killings.which is putting a strain on police responsibility and normal duties.

We also have politicians who turn a blind eye to the regular slaughter of their fellow men ,putting the interest of their party in the forefront and constantly failing to support any attempt to re- instate the death penalty. Moreover we have a local so called group of sanctimonious citizens who by hook or crook are determine to allow the lives of even the most evil killers be spared.

They are quite prepared to see killers locked up in prison until the die of old age, being a burden on the state and its resources.

Finally we have no deterrent to deter these murderers of thinking of the consequences before they commit their evil act.

We must resort to the biblical doctrine of an eye for an eye if we ever want to restore and return to some form of normality which offers safety and lack of fear now noticeable in the population.The quicker we re-instate the death penalty and start clearing death row the better for our nation.

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Name: George

Title: The Death Penalty

Comments: The death penalty is being treated here as a political football. Politicians here from both sides of the fence are playing at politics where the reinstatement of the death penalty is concerned. The following appeared in today's issue of the Newsday newspaper:

Now read this, which was reported when the PP was in power.

What more proof do we need to realize that our politicians are just pulling the wool over te eyes of our ordinary citizens and are continually avoiding the implementing of the death penalty here at the expense of the lives of our innocent citizens and in support of those judges on the Privy Council in far distant land, We seem to forget that we are a republic and do not always have to conform to legal protocol from the UK.

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Name: George

Title: Restore the death penalty now

Comments: The only way to stop the murders and reduce lawlessness here is to restore the death penalty immediately and start hanging those already convicted murderers. We must now ignore the Privy Council ruling and look after the interest of our people.Having said that the impression given now is in addition to those in the corridors of power not caring a hoot about the lives of our people the main drawback here for the lack of progress in our battle against crime lies squarely on the shoulders of our Chief Justice, who is ignoring the the call of the majority to restore the death penalty. In my opinion, he is bound and tied to having to strictly obey his masters in the UK.He has lost the ability to think for himself,and act in a logical manner, hence the poor functioning of our judiciary system, which is of very little help to our police system. It is only when those goofy politicians in the corridors of power and the Chief justice get some sense knocked into their heads and take some action and stop offering lip service, we are likely to start seeing a fall in murders, lawlessness and other crimes here.