I quoted two paragraphs from
Conservative British Journalist, John O’Sullivan in his article on Tuesday 27
March 2012, European Dignity, American Rights: Outlining a debate on capital punishment.
More
recent figures from the British Home Office show that, between 1997 and 2007,
no fewer than 30 murderers committed a second murder when they were either on
parole or had served a custodial sentence and been released. That translates
into about 150 innocent victims of second-time murderers in a population of
U.S. size — and somewhat more in a population of the size of the entire EU.
These
victims go unmourned by bien pensant opinion. In the British debate on
capital punishment, we hear constantly — and rightly — about the two men
executed in the 1950s for murders of which they are now considered wholly or
partly innocent. But we do not even know the names of the 30 victims of our
abolitionist penal policy over the last 15 years.
Many British people who grew up in
the United Kingdom from the 1940’s to early 1960’s, experienced a crime free
society with low homicide rates. Those abolitionists in that era who claimed
that because there were 4 innocent men who were wrongfully executed, they seized
the opportunity to justify the abolition of the death penalty. As usual, they
will quote Justice William Blackstone’s formulation: “It is
better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”
What those abolitionists do not want
the public to know is that more innocent people had been murdered, especially
by recidivist murderers. They claim that killers will never be released from
prison, but it was always proven to be a lie. All thanks to that left wing
politician, Roy Jenkins who made Britain a ‘civilized place’.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and Chalerm Ubumrung and many others will criticize those abolitionists who want to protect the guilty and
not the innocent.
Here are several cases in the United Kingdom where convicted killers had
been released to kill again between 2006 to 2010.
1. The murder of
Donna Wilson:
A woman had reported her apparent killer to police just one week before she was fatally stabbed by him.
Staffordshire
Police said Donna Wilson, who was stabbed on Sunday 21 January 2007, had
reported an assault and theft by Shaun Clarke, 45, the previous weekend.
Ms
Wilson, 30, of Burton, died on Monday - Clarke's body was later found in
woodland. It is thought he killed Ms Wilson before taking his own life.
It also
emerged Clarke had served 16 years for an earlier murder.
THE funeral of murdered care
worker Donna Wilson will take place on Friday 2 February 2007, The Mail can
reveal.
Miss Wilson, 30, of St Stephens
Court, Horninglow, was repeatedly stabbed by crazed killer Shaun Clarke,
following an argument at her home on the night of Sunday, January 21.
The funeral will take place at noon at St Mark’s Church, Winshill, followed by cremation at Bretby Crematorium.
A notice from the family, which appears in today’s edition of The Mail, describes Miss Wilson as a "dearly loved daughter of Joan and the late Gordon, treasured sister to Gordon and Sonia, Jason and Kym, dear aunt to Daniella and Michaella and lovingly remembered by Michael and her baby dog, Pepsi".
After suffering severe blood loss, Miss Wilson was taken to Queen’s Hospital, before being transferred to Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, which specialises in critical care. She died at 5am the following day.
Police launched a manhunt for Clarke, 45, of Shakespeare Road, Horninglow, shortly after the attack, but he was found hanged in woodland at Branston Water Park at 7am that day.
Last week, separate police and probation service investigations were launched after The Mail revealed that Miss Wilson had gone to Burton Police Station with her fiance, Michael Brealey, eight days before her death, and made a criminal complaint against Clarke over allegations of harassment, including incidents of theft and assault.
A Staffordshire Police spokesman confirmed that the case had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission for investigation.
In a separate development, Staffordshire Probation Service also launched its own internal probe after it emerged that Clarke had been sentenced to life imprisonment at Leeds Crown Court on September 12, 1987, for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Sykes, whom he strangled and electrocuted at her home in Huddersfield.
He served his sentence at prisons in Wakefield, Nottingham and Rutland before being transferred to open conditions at HMP Sudbury in July, 2000.
He was freed from Sudbury on life licence in May, 2003, and settled in Burton, initially in Stonham Hostel in Rosliston Road, Stapenhill, and then in a Trent and Dove Housing flat in Shakespeare Road. He worked at Exel Logistics, in Derby Road, Stretton.
It had been claimed that Miss Wilson had also been in a relationship with Clarke, but relatives of Mr Brealey have refuted this, saying that Clarke had become obsessed with her after she befriended him in a pub "because she felt sorry for him".
Following her death, tributes were paid to Miss Wilson from the elderly residents at St Stephen's Court, where she had worked as a sheltered housing warden for the previous six months.
Gladys Hibbert, 75, said: "I was very fond of Donna, she was ever so friendly, we all got on really well with her."
An inquest into Miss Wilson’s death was opened and adjourned on Thursday by South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh.
Flowers or donations in Donna’s memory for Cancer Research UK can be sent to Murray’s Funeral Directors, in York Street, Burton.
2. Ernest Wright fired a final, fatal shot into his neck. … Wright, who had already
served a life sentence for a murder he committed in 1971’: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/8586576.stm
Benefits row led to 'brutal' murder
11:58
GMT, Monday, 29 March 2010 12:58 UK
Wearing a
balaclava and carrying a sawn-off shotgun, Ernest Wright was caught on CCTV as
he walked up to a house in Bradford, intent on committing murder.
Minutes
later, a father-of-two was dead and his partner was critically injured after
Wright burst into their home and fired the gun at them six times.
Neville
Corby, 42, was shot in the chest and shoulder and hit over the head with the
gun and as he crouched in a bedroom, Wright fired a final, fatal shot into his
neck.
Craig
Freear, 31, who was shot in the shoulder, managed to climb out of the bathroom
window to safety and hid under a neighbour's car.
Wright
fled after the killing and was hunted by police for a month before being
arrested at a friend's house, next door-but-one to his own home.
“ That
a senior citizen should be responsible for such a horrific and brutal murder is
highly unusual, however, Ernest Wright is not a conventional 68-year-old ”
Det Supt Chris Thompson
Det Supt Chris Thompson
He
claimed to be somewhere else at the time of the murder, but a jury heard
evidence that proved otherwise and later convicted him of murder and attempted
murder.
Wright retained
most of the spent shotgun cartridges, but he dropped one on the staircase and
his DNA was extracted from it.
The court
heard Wright befriended Mr Freear's mother, who had mental health problems, and
persuaded her to have her benefit payments paid into his bank account.
He also
moved her from Bradford into a property in Shipley without telling her son.
When Mr
Freear and Mr Corby found out they confronted Wright and over the next few days
there was an escalating hostility between the three men.
Det Supt
Chris Thompson, who led the investigation, said Wright reacted with
"extreme and totally disproportionate violence".
"That
a senior citizen should be responsible for such a horrific and brutal murder is
highly unusual, however, Ernest Wright is not a conventional 68-year-old,"
he said.
Mr Freear
was confronted by Wright as he left for work on the morning of 30 March 2009.
Victim
'executed'
In the
ensuing attack, Wright had to break and re-load twice in order to fire the six
shots from the double-barrelled gun.
Wright
shot at the men in the hallway before chasing them upstairs, where Mr Freear
took refuge in the bathroom and Mr Corby hid in a bedroom.
Craig
Freear needed surgery after he escaped through this window.
As Mr
Freear managed to climb on to the edge of the bath and jump out of the bathroom
window, his partner was cornered by Wright.
While Mr
Corby was crouched down, Wright shot him in the neck at close range.
The
prosecution said the shot was "nothing short of an execution of a defenceless
man".
Mr
Freear, who had life-saving surgery, later named Wright as his attacker,
telling police that despite wearing a balaclava, he recognised Wright from his
build, his gait and the wrinkles around his eyes.
During
his time in hiding Wright, who had already served a life sentence for a murder
he committed in 1971, wrote to the investigating officers.
Mr
Thompson said Wright sent similar letters "of a self-pitying nature"
to police after the 1971 murder and there were "clear parallels" in
the cases.
He said:
"A controlling and manipulative individual, in both cases he was involved
in dysfunctional relationships with vulnerable women.
"It
is at the point that his control of these relationships was challenged that he
reacted with extreme and totally disproportionate violence, and in both cases
was prepared to commit murder." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/8586576.stm
3. In 2010, Alexander Duffin was
stabbed to death by Richard McMillan who in ‘1998 … celebrated his 16th
birthday by kicking 53-year-old Thomas Stronge to death … McMillan
stamped on his victim with such force that he left the imprint of his trainers
on the man’s face.’
21
December 2010 Last updated at 20:46 GMT
Killer jailed over stabbing death in Toryglen
Alexander Duffin died from stab wounds to the chest.
A convicted killer who stabbed a man to death
while out of prison on licence has been jailed for at least 25 years.
Richard
McMillan stabbed Alexander Duffin, 41, in the chest in the Toryglen area of
Glasgow in May.
The
29-year-old attacked Mr Duffin because there was "bad feeling"
between them, the court heard.
McMillan
was first convicted of murder at the age of 16, after kicking a man to death in
1998. He was released on licence in July 2004.
Jurors
at the High Court in Glasgow convicted McMillan of murdering Mr Duffin at a
footpath near to Toryglen Road on 9 May.
Judge
John Morris told him: "The jury have convicted you of murder and there's
only one sentence appropriate, life.
"It
remains for me to determine the punishment part of your sentence and standing
your previous conviction that must be substantial."
McMillan
was detained without limit of time in January 1998 after he celebrated his 16th
birthday by kicking 53-year-old Thomas Stronge to death in Western Avenue,
Rutherglen.
At
that time, the High Court in Glasgow heard that McMillan stamped on his victim
with such force that he left the imprint of his trainers on the man's face.
4. ‘John David Matthews, 66, was
found dead in his Derby flat on 25 July 2010. Five days later Paul Hancock, 58,
was found dead in the same building. The pair had been repeatedly stabbed and
both were found in their own baths. … Mr Matthews, known as Dave, had been
stabbed 18 times. Mr Hancock received 22 stab wounds. … Dawson was given a life
sentence in 1982 after admitting the murder of a 91-year-old man in his flat …’
18
July 2011
Last
updated at 18:24
GMT
Neighbour killer Andrew Dawson given whole life term
Andrew
Dawson is told he will spend the rest of his life in prison after being
convicted of murdering two of his neighbours.
A convicted killer who murdered two of his
neighbours while out on licence for an earlier crime has been told he will
spend the rest of his life in prison.
John
David Matthews, 66, was found dead in his Derby flat on 25 July 2010.
Five
days later Paul Hancock, 58, was found dead in the same building. The pair had
been repeatedly stabbed and both were found in their own baths.
Andrew
Dawson, 48, admitted murdering the two men, on the first day of his Nottingham
Crown Court trial.
In
sentencing Dawson to a whole life term, Mrs Justice Dobbs said "life will
mean life".
'Angel
of Mercy'
He
had initially admitted killing both men at the flats in Waterford Drive,
Chaddesden, but had denied their murder on the grounds of diminished
responsibility.
But
he changed his plea to the murder charges at the court earlier on Monday.
The
jury was told the bodies of Mr Matthews and Mr Hancock were found in the baths
of their separate flats.
Mr
Matthews, known as Dave, had been stabbed 18 times. Mr Hancock received 22 stab
wounds.
These were cold, calculated and savage acts”
End Quote Det Insp
Paul Callum Derbyshire Police
Dawson
had moved into the same building just weeks beforehand.
He
had gone to both victims' flats on the pretence of wanting to use their washing
machines.
The
court was told Dawson was given a life sentence in 1982 after admitting the
murder of a 91-year-old man in his flat at Ormskirk, Lancashire - where Dawson
was originally from.
He
was out on licence from prison at the time of the killings in Derby.
When
Dawson was arrested at Whitehaven in Cumbria he was armed with seven kitchen
knives.
At
his flat police discovered a notebook which bore the impression of a letter
said to have been written by Dawson which confessed to one of the killings and
was signed "Yours, the Angel of Mercy".
He
told police he had an urge to kill, the court heard.
Det
Insp Paul Callum said: "Dawson has shown no remorse for his actions and
has simply sought to blame anyone he can for the direction his life has taken.
'Brutal
killings'
"These
were cold, calculated and savage acts. He has shown a degree of thought and
planning and sought to conceal and destroy evidence where he could.
"He
has stretched out this process unnecessarily for the families of those men that
died for no reason and I would like to express my sympathies for the loss of
their loved ones."
Probation
officials insisted Dawson was handled correctly and that there had been no
signs he would commit further murders.
Denise
White, of Derbyshire Probation, said: "We always knew he was a difficult man
but there was nothing in all the years to indicate the things that we heard in
court today that in fact he was planning to kill again."
Mrs
Justice Dobbs told Dawson: "These were pre-meditated and planned, brutal
killings.
"Each
had the misfortune of being your neighbour who had no chance."
A man has
today (Monday, July 18th) admitted to the murders of two men in their own flats
in part of Derby and been jailed for life.
Andrew Dawson pleaded guilty to the murders at Nottingham Crown Court of John David Matthews and Paul Hancock in Waterford Drive, Chaddesden in July 2010.
Dawson (48) was a neighbour of the two men in the same flats complex. He visited the flat of Mr Matthews (66) on July 10th and attacked him on the doorstep, stabbing him 18 times.
Dawson then cleaned up and placed Mr Matthew's body in the bath and filled it with water and bleach.
Then on July 25th Dawson visited the flat of Mr Hancock (59) stabbed him to death. He started to clean up but was disturbed as he heard police officers attending Mr Matthew's flat downstairs after work colleagues reported they were concerned about him not turning up for his shifts.
So he placed Mr Hancock's body in the bath and filled it with water, returned to his own flat and left to get a train to Ormskirk.
Officers found Mr Matthews's body that night and discovered Mr Hancock after neighbours contacted police on July 30th after being concerned at not seeing him.
Dawson was identified as a suspect and traced to Whitehaven in Cumbria in the early hours of July 30th by local police.
The court heard that Dawson had previously been convicted of a murder in 1981 when he stabbed a 91-year-old shopkeeper to death in his home town of Ormskirk. He was jailed but released on a life-licence.
Detective Inspector Paul Callum was the Senior Investigating Officer in the case. He said: "Dawson has shown no remorse for his actions and has simply sought to blame anyone he can for the direction his life has taken.
"He has stretched out this process unnecessarily for the families of those men that died for no reason and I would like to express my sympathies for the loss of their loved ones.
"Far from having diminished responsibility in this case, as Andrew Dawson was trying to initially claim, he has total and sole responsibility for the deaths of Dave Matthews and Paul Hancock.
"These were cold, calculated and savage acts. He has shown a degree of thought and planning and sought to conceal and destroy evidence where he could.
"Conversely there was no pre-cursor to this or sign that Dawson was about to carry out the most serious of offences.
"From what I can ascertain there was no motive or reason why these two men were killed.
"I'd like to thank all the officers and staff who worked hard on this case to bring it to a successful conclusion."
Andrew Dawson pleaded guilty to the murders at Nottingham Crown Court of John David Matthews and Paul Hancock in Waterford Drive, Chaddesden in July 2010.
Dawson (48) was a neighbour of the two men in the same flats complex. He visited the flat of Mr Matthews (66) on July 10th and attacked him on the doorstep, stabbing him 18 times.
Dawson then cleaned up and placed Mr Matthew's body in the bath and filled it with water and bleach.
Then on July 25th Dawson visited the flat of Mr Hancock (59) stabbed him to death. He started to clean up but was disturbed as he heard police officers attending Mr Matthew's flat downstairs after work colleagues reported they were concerned about him not turning up for his shifts.
So he placed Mr Hancock's body in the bath and filled it with water, returned to his own flat and left to get a train to Ormskirk.
Officers found Mr Matthews's body that night and discovered Mr Hancock after neighbours contacted police on July 30th after being concerned at not seeing him.
Dawson was identified as a suspect and traced to Whitehaven in Cumbria in the early hours of July 30th by local police.
The court heard that Dawson had previously been convicted of a murder in 1981 when he stabbed a 91-year-old shopkeeper to death in his home town of Ormskirk. He was jailed but released on a life-licence.
Detective Inspector Paul Callum was the Senior Investigating Officer in the case. He said: "Dawson has shown no remorse for his actions and has simply sought to blame anyone he can for the direction his life has taken.
"He has stretched out this process unnecessarily for the families of those men that died for no reason and I would like to express my sympathies for the loss of their loved ones.
"Far from having diminished responsibility in this case, as Andrew Dawson was trying to initially claim, he has total and sole responsibility for the deaths of Dave Matthews and Paul Hancock.
"These were cold, calculated and savage acts. He has shown a degree of thought and planning and sought to conceal and destroy evidence where he could.
"Conversely there was no pre-cursor to this or sign that Dawson was about to carry out the most serious of offences.
"From what I can ascertain there was no motive or reason why these two men were killed.
"I'd like to thank all the officers and staff who worked hard on this case to bring it to a successful conclusion."
The only way to ever
prevent them from killing again is to put them to their deserved deaths. The
next time if an abolitionist tells a retentionist (I was a former abolitionist
myself) that an innocent might be wrongfully executed, the retentionist should
quote from American Conservative journalist, Dennis Prager in his article, Opponents in
capital punishment have blood on their hands, Tuesday 29 November 2005: Whereas
the shedding of innocent blood that proponents of capital punishment are
responsible for is thus far, thankfully, only theoretical, the shedding of
innocent blood for which opponents of capital punishment are responsible is not
theoretical at all. Thanks to their opposition to the death penalty, innocent
men and women have been murdered by killers who would otherwise have been put
to death.
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