FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
This is a sad day for humanity. I would recommend that people stop vacationing on this Island. Do you really want to vacation in a place where the motto is "an eye for an eye"? Any place that lives on that motto is likely to be raging with violence, as evidence by the low crime rates in Europe due to Liberal policies and the raging violence in Conservative America. Keep your family SAFE - DON'T vacation in retentionist countries.
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St. Kitts Brings Back The Noose
By Jeralyn, Section Death Penalty
Posted on Sat Jan 10, 2009 at 12:50:03 PM EST
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The Caribbean island of St. Kitts has reinstituted the death penalty for violent crimes, hoping to deter a recent increase in murders on the tiny island.
They came for the condemned man on the stroke of midnight. But for Charles Elroy Laplace there was no slap-up last supper of the type served on Death Row in America, nor the company of a reassuring pastor. Instead, he was bound hand and foot and cast on to a grubby mattress in the corner of his fetid cell, then left for eight hours to contemplate his impending fate.
Paralysed and rendered incontinent with fear, Laplace lay there all night, begging the Lord for mercy and pleading for someone to call his mother or his lawyer - anyone who might save him at the last. But his wretched entreaties were drowned out by the singing of his prison guards, who saw fit to celebrate his coming execution with a rum-fuelled 'gallows party' that lasted long into the small hours.
The article goes on to describe the hangman and reasons the island is resuming hangings. [More...]
This paragraph is interesting:
For a variety of reasons, the Privy Council often rules capital punishment 'unconstitutional'.
And if defence lawyers can drag a case on for more than five years, hanging is commuted to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds because the murderer is deemed to have suffered enough while waiting on Death Row.
Jamaica may be next to resume executions:
In Jamaica, whose population is barely bigger than that of Birmingham, but which last year suffered some 1,300 murders - twice as many as in the whole of Britain - the Senate has just voted to keep hanging on the statute books.
No one has been hanged there since 1988 but legal experts believe the drugs-related killing spree has reached such a critical point that it is sure to be resumed soon.
The public fervor to bring back the death penalty on these tiny islands is causing at least one prominent defense attorney to refuse to take death cases -- but in his case, it sounds more like he has a moral and personal conflict:
Even the island's most senior criminal defence lawyer, Methodist pastor Reginald James, told me he would no longer represent convicted murderers after completing his current caseload, which includes an appeal for a pastor's son alleged to have murdered his sister-in-law.
'We have never had so many killings on this island and we must do something to stop it,' lamented the 68-year-old barrister, adding that as a Christian and patriot, his conscience no longer allowed him to fight to spare murderers from the gallows.
Will the executions stop the violence? Doubtful.
Whether his hanging - if it takes places - will stem the bloody tide of murders in paradise remains to be seen, though given that three people were shot just a day after the authorities made an example of Charles Laplace, it seems unlikely. In the final analysis, perhaps the only real winner will be Simeon Govia, the gigolo hangman.
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http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/1/10/13503/0409
St. Kitts Brings Back The Noose
By Jeralyn, Section Death Penalty
Posted on Sat Jan 10, 2009 at 12:50:03 PM EST
Tags: (all tags)
Share This: Digg! StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit reddit
The Caribbean island of St. Kitts has reinstituted the death penalty for violent crimes, hoping to deter a recent increase in murders on the tiny island.
They came for the condemned man on the stroke of midnight. But for Charles Elroy Laplace there was no slap-up last supper of the type served on Death Row in America, nor the company of a reassuring pastor. Instead, he was bound hand and foot and cast on to a grubby mattress in the corner of his fetid cell, then left for eight hours to contemplate his impending fate.
Paralysed and rendered incontinent with fear, Laplace lay there all night, begging the Lord for mercy and pleading for someone to call his mother or his lawyer - anyone who might save him at the last. But his wretched entreaties were drowned out by the singing of his prison guards, who saw fit to celebrate his coming execution with a rum-fuelled 'gallows party' that lasted long into the small hours.
The article goes on to describe the hangman and reasons the island is resuming hangings. [More...]
This paragraph is interesting:
For a variety of reasons, the Privy Council often rules capital punishment 'unconstitutional'.
And if defence lawyers can drag a case on for more than five years, hanging is commuted to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds because the murderer is deemed to have suffered enough while waiting on Death Row.
Jamaica may be next to resume executions:
In Jamaica, whose population is barely bigger than that of Birmingham, but which last year suffered some 1,300 murders - twice as many as in the whole of Britain - the Senate has just voted to keep hanging on the statute books.
No one has been hanged there since 1988 but legal experts believe the drugs-related killing spree has reached such a critical point that it is sure to be resumed soon.
The public fervor to bring back the death penalty on these tiny islands is causing at least one prominent defense attorney to refuse to take death cases -- but in his case, it sounds more like he has a moral and personal conflict:
Even the island's most senior criminal defence lawyer, Methodist pastor Reginald James, told me he would no longer represent convicted murderers after completing his current caseload, which includes an appeal for a pastor's son alleged to have murdered his sister-in-law.
'We have never had so many killings on this island and we must do something to stop it,' lamented the 68-year-old barrister, adding that as a Christian and patriot, his conscience no longer allowed him to fight to spare murderers from the gallows.
Will the executions stop the violence? Doubtful.
Whether his hanging - if it takes places - will stem the bloody tide of murders in paradise remains to be seen, though given that three people were shot just a day after the authorities made an example of Charles Laplace, it seems unlikely. In the final analysis, perhaps the only real winner will be Simeon Govia, the gigolo hangman.
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