Why defend callous criminals?
Jan 25, 2005
SIR— I think it’s all well and dandy for the attorneys petitioning the Constitution Court for removal of the death penalty to stand up and discuss cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of the inmates on death row.
SIR— I think it’s all well and dandy for the attorneys petitioning the Constitution Court for removal of the death penalty to stand up and discuss cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of the inmates on death row.
To have various affidavits discussing the method of execution, manner and time taken is one thing, to argue that after five years this sentence should not be carried out because it’s cruel is sarcasm at the highest level.
A death sentence is only invoked for the most hideous of crimes, murder, rape, aggravated robbery, defilement, to mention but a few. To stand before open court and say that they should not be executed but stay in jail as a humane equivalent is revolting.
The murderers you defend so openly took the lives of our loved ones, knowingly and calculating every move.
Should we now feel sympathy for the manner in which they are to die? And who is speaking for the families, for the children that will never know their parents because someone trashed their lives, for the single mother who will never know the love of the man she married. I think they should all hang. Use the lethal injection or the electric chair.
Fiona Kaitesi
Kampala
To have various affidavits discussing the method of execution, manner and time taken is one thing, to argue that after five years this sentence should not be carried out because it’s cruel is sarcasm at the highest level.
A death sentence is only invoked for the most hideous of crimes, murder, rape, aggravated robbery, defilement, to mention but a few. To stand before open court and say that they should not be executed but stay in jail as a humane equivalent is revolting.
The murderers you defend so openly took the lives of our loved ones, knowingly and calculating every move.
Should we now feel sympathy for the manner in which they are to die? And who is speaking for the families, for the children that will never know their parents because someone trashed their lives, for the single mother who will never know the love of the man she married. I think they should all hang. Use the lethal injection or the electric chair.
Fiona Kaitesi
Kampala