50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
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Capital punishment is unfairly imposed, innocent people are regularly condemned and it is patently ineffective in deterring crime. So why to states retain the death penalty?
Not only does capital punishment not deter crime but it’s more expensive than keeping a convicted murderer in prison for life.
As with most aspects of criminal justice in sub-Saharan Africa, the death penalty as it currently exists in law is a colonial import. Criminal justice before the modern era was a private matter.
Whatever you think of capital punishment, if your police force helps convict people of capital crimes, you are complicit to some degree.
Australians are the ones who suffer when consular support is weakened overseas.
Over recent weeks there has been a constant background noise that Islamic State and its ideology are some sort of throwback to a distant past. It is often framed in language used last week by the deputy…
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