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August 13, 2008
FAST and Human Rights Activists Oppose Death Penalty
In an effort to reduce the crime rate by using it as a deterrent for criminals and to appease the scared public, the JLP will in a few weeks vote either in favour of or against resuming the death penalty. The JLP's wish to resume executions in Jamaica as an anti-crime strategy has come under fire from various sects.
Yvonne Sobers of Families Against State Terrorism (FAST) sees this move as being "fundamentally abhorrent".
Human rights activist Nancy Anderson is also opposed to the idea of executions. "I am opposed to the idea of capital punishment, it doesn't help, it is not a deterrent...We condemn people who kill and then we turn around and kill them, it is farcical."
Miss Anderson also pointed to cases where prisoners were sentenced to death, placed on death row, only to be later released when new evidence proved their innocents. What would have happened if they were executed before the new evidence was discovered? She said that life imprisonment should be enough of a deterrent for criminals.
Amnesty International has recommended that Jamaica and other Caribbean states should follow the decision of Illinois Governor George Ryan, and overturn the death penalty of all 167 inmates on death row in the state.
"The law is that no one should kill anyone."
Posted by yardFlex at August 13, 2008 10:52 AM
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Posted by: Tashi
on August 13, 2008 12:04 PM
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I am all for that....... If it helps to reduce the crime in jamaica then by all means it should be implemented. Look at how " 5 GROWN *SS MAN RAPE A 8 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL IN ST JAMES". So if it will make them think twice brfore commiteing such act, then it should be implemented..
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Posted by: Wade Cameron
on August 13, 2008 12:23 PM
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Mi nuh beleive inna life fi life, but sometimes yu haffi put fear inna people fi dem fi ease off certain tings.
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Posted by: b-rad
on August 13, 2008 12:27 PM
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Some people just weren't meant to live with the rest of us. I have no problem with cold blooded killers and rapists leaving the world the rest of us live in. Putting up a picture of slaves haning from trees is disturbing, disrespectful, and propoganda. We don't hang. My compassion goes to the victims who died horrified cruel deaths and never had a chane to say goodbye to their love ones. If you don't want killers back on the street, kill them.. Why pay to keep them alive when our children are in poverty?
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Posted by: Ranxxx
on August 13, 2008 01:00 PM
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yow mi neva waan seh dis enuh but F**K AMERICA, F**K CANADA AND F**K EUROPE AND STOP FORCE UNNU LIFESTYLE PON PEOPLE
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Posted by: bronxmon
on August 13, 2008 01:07 PM
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A very sticky issue for some, but not me. Skip all the judicial process. Kill gunmen me on sight. Set up post in there neighborhood. As someone dies from gun shot in a community. an immediate post will be placed there right on sight- 800 odd dead-- 800 post set up. The gunmen are retarded plain and simple. so treat them like retards. The M.O. is don't bother the citizens. let them smoke them weed- go about them business. but law is you have a gun yu dead. All them garrison and tg and them ray ray neighborhoods. please mi clean up that quick quick. i take no prisoners. who don't like it i send them to foreign for political asylum. but when jamaica fix --know coming back for them. Give me 10 years as jamaica pm and i would change the whole caribbean.
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Posted by: MARK ANTHONY
on August 13, 2008 01:33 PM
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IF THIS IS THE ONLY WAY OF LOWERING THE CRIME RATE I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH HAVING SUCH ACT IN PLACE,PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BE SCARED OF GOING HOME....WITH JA BEING CONSIDERED A MURDER CAPITOL
COME ON SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!
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Posted by: Senne'
on August 13, 2008 01:37 PM
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Lord that picture hurts my heart so bad!!! I can't say to take another persons life. No matter what they have done. I'm sure if my child was raped or something like that there is the chance that I would change my mind but I can't say for now. If I agree with and support the death penalty, does that mean I condone murder? Right now I can't and won't because there's too many innocent Brothers who have been arrested for crimes they never did.....
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Posted by: tugz
on August 13, 2008 01:49 PM
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to d hypocrite people dem that say dont kill them, dont wait till dem kill your mother or a family memeber to say it is right to kill
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Posted by: JAH B
on August 13, 2008 02:55 PM
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I guess the government wants to inact moses law. An eye for an eye.......But who are we to take someones life???? this will frighten some. However, the majority of these guys who kill are heartless. Total disregard for life. Dem nuh fear death. So oonu fi come back to di table & work out something else. Selassi I Jah rastafari.
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Posted by: donman tj
on August 13, 2008 03:01 PM
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no ..have 2 many gangsta friend a ja...ya zeemie
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Posted by: CHALICE KING
on August 13, 2008 03:29 PM
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Please bring back the death penalty i beg you these barbarians are out of control.This would make these so calleed bad boy stop their evil behavior too much cold blood killing taking place.
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Posted by: BAJAN
on August 13, 2008 03:51 PM
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THIS ONE FOR ALL A WUNNA ESPECIALLY TASHI. JUDGEMENT IS SUPPOSE TO BE EXECUTED BY GOD. MAN CANNOT GIVE BREATH SO HE SHOULDN'T TAKE IT, YES BUT SAY TASHI YOU HAD A CLOSE RELATIVE VERY CLOSE TO YOUR HEART AND HE OR SHE KILLED SOMEONE I BET YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THAT VIEW BUT WHEN IT COMES TO SOMEONE ELSE YOU WOULDN'T THING TWICE YEAH SO YOU NEED TO LOOK AT IT FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S PERSPECTIVE SOMETIMES PEOPLE MAKE VERY HUGE MISTAKES IN LIFE INFLUENCED BY THE DEVIL BUT WE'RE ONLY HUMAN SO I BELIEVE IN LEAVING JUDGEMENT TO GOD BECAUSE WE ARE ALL SINNERS AND THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS NO LITTLE SIN OR BIG SIN SIN IS SIN SO YOU MIGHT STEAL A LITTLE CANDY FROM A SHOP OR LIE TO YOUR PARENT ALL IS SIN SO PLEASE DON'T JUDGE. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW AND IF YOU LIVE BY THE GUN YOU WILL DIE BY IT.
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Posted by: hang'm high
on August 13, 2008 05:03 PM
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they ain't slaves. that's how they did it in the day.
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Posted by: PGF
on August 14, 2008 04:59 AM
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100% agree with BAJAN...someone talking sense at last.
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Posted by: mz no mannaz
on August 14, 2008 09:35 AM
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applause!!! what took them soooooooooooooo long.
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Posted by: Tugz
on August 14, 2008 01:21 PM
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@BAJAN "JUDGEMENT IS SUPPOSE TO BE EXECUTED BY GOD".YOU GWAN WAIT FI GOD COME JUDGE DEM WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR GOD TO COME SINCE SLAVERY WHERE IS HE?
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Posted by: judgement
on August 14, 2008 06:24 PM
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MURDERERS ARE KICKED OUT OF HEAVEN. SO WHY WOULD GOD CARE IF WE KILLED THEM??? HE DON'T WANT THEM.
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Posted by: gigglez
on August 15, 2008 12:00 PM
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i am ALLLL FOr (capital punishment) if you go out there and shoot a man or a women because you didn't like the fact that he or she was making money you should die Jamaica needs it man down de a shoot old people and young kids they should die get ried of them all
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Posted by: Nickas
on August 15, 2008 12:27 PM
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Sorry to sound so inhumane but I am all for the death penalty. I feel terrible when they talk about Ja as being one of the most dangerous country in the world. But it pains my heart more when I see people killing off infants, old people and more over innocent people. If that is what we'll have to do to deter the scums and restore Ja land we love so be it
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Posted by: lena
on August 15, 2008 01:38 PM
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it's not a sticky situation, as tashi said "look at how 5 grown ass men rape the little girl in st james"it's a dastardly act and people should be punished for these acts committed against the innocent, some grown women can't handle one man much less 5 how the hell an 8 yr old can? i say HENG EVERY FRIGGIN ONE A DEM!!!!! AND CUT OFF THEM DICK!! that's what i would do, for those who only kill and not rape? HENG DEM TWICE!!!!!
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Posted by: BAJAN
on August 16, 2008 10:35 AM
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TUGZ YOUR NICK NAME REALLY PORTRAYS THE SORT OF PERSON YOU ARE IF YOU HAD FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE YOU WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION LIKE THAT THAT IS QUESTIONING GOD HON AND WE HUMANS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT GOD'S TIME IS NOT MANS TIME AND FOR YOUR INFO IF YOU READ YOUR BIBLE YOU WOULD SEE THAT SLAVERY WAS ORDAINED FROM THE DAY OF NOAH IT WAS HAM SHEM AND JAPHET BLACK BROWN AND WHITE AND HAM THE BLACK SON LOOKED UPON HIS FATHER'S NAKED AND WAS CURSED AND GOD TOLD HIM HE SHALL BECOME A SLAVE UNTO JAPHET ALL DAYS OF HIS LIFE. AND FOR ALL OF YOU WHO BELIEVE IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WHY DON'T YOU ALL VOLUNTEER TO DRAW THE ROPE THEN WE'LL SEE WHO HAS A CONSCIENCE AND WHO DON'T. HE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE.
I support the Death Penalty 100%, BRAKE THE NECK Human Rights is not there when Innocent Jamaican are LOOSING their LIVES everyady then MURDERERS IN Prison living off the Tax Payers with all the Privileges. BRAKE the NECK. Retired Citizens, Investors, Visitors are SCARED because the the CRIME. Human in only for CRIMINALS what about the Decents Citizens of my Country.
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Posted by: junebugg
on September 26, 2008 11:51 PM
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I dont think that the laws that govern the US or any super country, should have an influence on the laws of Jamaica. For the same reason of pushing, and strong arming the weaker countries,is the reason why no one likes the US. Jamaica is an island, with its own govenment. I think that they should stop putting these offenders on death row,stop locking them up for years. They should speed up the process of exterminating these vermons for society. I think that, if you decide in your right mind to commit a crime i.e. murder,or rape, you should be punished justly. I am a proud Jamaican, and it annoys me how Jamaica is becoming so DAMN Americanized in its decision making. I say go back in the old days and hang those ignorant vermons who pray on hard workin people. If you show these vermons that they are not above the law, and that if the commit a crime against society they will suffer the consequences. If I had my way they all will be dip in freezing cold water and then electricuted, hanging and lethal injection would be too easy. If copral punishmnet is in place and is carried out in a timely manner the prison system would not be so overwhelmed. They come in, they get exterminated within 3months, STOP WASTING MONEY ON REHABILITATING THESE VERMONS!!!!!. I bet you that if these offenders were face with the fact that they will be killed, they will think twice about committing these awful crimes. All this life in prison is too easy, while the person they killed is dead!!!!. YEAH ! FOR COPRAL PUNISHMENT!!!
What Jamaica needs to do is to wipe out the cruption that is rampant int he police force and political arenas. They should adapt the way the US respond to emergency, how different agencies communitcate with each other. All the debt that Jamaica has incurred has made us pawns in the hands of the US and the other super countries. Jamaica needs to live up to its motto:
"out of many one people" to use the best and the bightest of our people to help mold the future of the island. These 1st world country arent GOD! so stop worshipping them,and looking to them for handouts (Stop importing useless shit form the US, like onion seed, chicken parts and powdered milk WTF!!!). Jamaica can use it own resources to produce. Make your own decisions.
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