MY EXACT SENTIMENTS: Noise about death sentences, abolished in some countries, tends to ignore the rights of the victims and their families, who in these cases lost lives. ‘We are firmly on the side of the innocent members of the law-abiding public whose right to life and the achievement of the loftiest potentials under the law were savagely terminated by deviants. The law mandates the state to ensure justice is done to all, including the suspects. The quest for justice saw them through the appeal processes, and the verdict was still death. The brazen brutality and barbarism involved in some of the cases are too nauseating to be repeated here. No decent society would tolerate them. When a citizen, for whatever reason, takes the law into his hands, terminating the life of another, the state has a duty to bring the offender to appropriate justice. This will not only reassure the victims’ families that the law “will fight” for them (and thus prevent the urge for vengeance) it will also help to deter those who might contemplate brutal behaviours. - See more at: vanguardngr/2013/06/edo-hanging-row/#sthash.C5RpcSEb.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:44:49 +0000
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