Thursday 12 July 2012 - The MP whose constituency was home to the child killer Ian Huntley has
said he must never be released from prison.
The Conservative MP for Cleethorpes, Martin Vickers, was speaking ahead
of the 10-year anniversary of the Soham murders.
However, Mr Vickers said he did not support the return of the death
penalty.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Martin Vickers said: "I do believe that people like Huntley should be in jail for life and
it should be a spartan regime while they are there.
"In regards to the death penalty, my fear is
that if we have juries that are making decisions over life and death it will
make them more reluctant to convict and there will be more dangerous murderers
on the streets than there are now."
Comments:
I
agree that people like Ian Huntley should be in a spartan regime but the
criminal rights activists will argue that it is inhumane and cruel and they
will have it outlaw for sure. Juries will be even more careful when they decide
whether the death sentence should be imposed because of Massive safeguards, the
appeals courts should also scrutinize every capital case carefully. Without the
death penalty, there will be even more dangerous murderers on the streets. 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.
Some death
penalty advocates like Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, SirJames Fitzjames Stephen, Alex Kozinski, and Chalerm Ubumrung are willing to wipe out evil people and make them be afraid of
losing their life. Death is frightening, please check with Erich Maria Remarque.
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