Case made for capital punishment

I consider myself to be a person who protects the sanctity of all forms of life either by my faith or by my own personal inbred convictions of the sanctity of not only human life but all forms of life. Life is a mystery and precious, deserves respect and the right to exist.

I know this is a big stretch to hope that human beings will ever stop from harming or killing others. As long as there is greed, drugs, jealousy or a myriad of other reasons there will be those who will want to take someone else’s life.

Sadly, we come to our own time when we hear of the recent dastardly murders in Calgary of a young mother and her beautiful child.

Every decent person in this country or even beyond on hearing this news would respond by saying, “why would anybody do such a terrible thing?” Or just say nothing at all and after a short time forget it until next time a young mother and her children are butchered.

However, there are too many times (one is too many) when young lives are snuffed out by human trash.

We have in this country a marvelous police system that has no equal in apprehending these perpetrators. I suppose it is only human nature to not agree with the sentences passed that the courts mete out. For a murderer to serve their sentence in incarceration is inhumane to say the least.

As in days gone by if a murderer is found guilty they should go directly to the gallows from the courtroom. They will not murder again.

There are those who would say: “this is barbaric.” I believe if people knew that hanging awaited them they would think twice about ending another’s life. Then there is the cost of housing these criminals.

It is not too many years ago that murderers were hung at the county jail on Grand Lake Road. They never murdered again. Have we regressed since then?

What do you think?

Rev. Bob Crocker Sydney Mines