Punishments must fit crime

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Star Hobson, Amina Johnson: the latest names in a litany of babies and children tormented, and then murdered by those responsible for caring for them.

Thirty teenagers, the majority from ethnic minorities, stabbed to death on our streets last year. Almost 100 women murdered by their so called partners in the same period.

How many more deaths before we reject the liberal policies which have dominated the justice system for decades, and recognise that only by making the punishment fit the crime may we hope to stem this tide of the blood of innocents.

Virtue signalling elitists claim that deterrence does not work, a self evident lie, as it is the way in which humans, or indeed any sentient creature, learns to avoid fire, or to weigh risk against action.

If these foul killers knew that they would face capital punishment for taking a life the vast majority would refrain from doing so, yet those who have dominated our nation for far too long prefer to defend them, advocating soft sentences which have allowed those guilty of such crimes to walk free often within a few years of being convicted.

The opponents of capital punishment try to make out that those who advocate it are a minority, who possess the mindset of a latter day Judge Jeffreys, yet the truth is that polls have constantly shown a majority in favour, while we who support it reserve our sympathy for the victims, not the perpetrators.

Now we have left the EU we are at liberty to reinstate capital punishment.

As it says in the Bible when Cain killed Abel the Lord said “Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground” and do not the weak deserve protection from the strong.

Colin Bullen