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."

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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."

junebugg

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.

Gary Monsta

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.

BAJAN

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.

lena

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!!!!!

Nickas

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