Did you betray Tia Sharp?

What a surprise - not!  People are calling for convicted child murderer Stuart Hazell to be hanged.  And how many of these people voted at the last general election for a political party which supported bringing back the death penalty?

Are you a member of a political party which supports bringing back the death penalty?  If not, then it is likely that you are partly responsible for the murder of Tia Sharp.

There are three main arguments against bringing back the death penalty.  The first is a belief that the state does not have the right to take the life of one of its citizens.  Most voters in this country are happy to vote for a political party which will bomb other countries and murder innocent people.  Surely it is hypocritical of such people to think it wrong for a man to be hanged who has just been convicted of a terrible crime.

A second objection is that hanging would not deter crime, but the plain fact is that the threat of a lengthy jail sentence did not deter Stuart Hazell from murdering Tia Sharp, and neither does it deter hundreds of other killers in this country.

A third objection is that the return of the death penalty might result in an innocent person being hanged.  While this cannot be ruled out as a possibility, there are things which can be done about it.  Lessons can be learnt from known examples of miscarriages of justice.  Let's be clear about this.  Tia Sharp was not hanged for a crime she did not commit.  She was murdered because the British people cannot be bothered to elect a government which will bring back the death penalty.

Innocent people die every year in this country because we do not have the death penalty.  That will not change until ordinary people stop voting for politicians who will not bring back the rope.