{"id":162,"date":"2007-01-10T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T10:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2007-01-10T06:40:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T10:40:04","slug":"unc-bring-back-hangings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"UNC: Bring back hangings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161079737\">Trinidad Express<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 10th 2007<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/jail.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Jail\">Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says killers should be hanged. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that we need to seriously examine the actual implementation of the death penalty. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, I am speaking about bringing back hanging. We live in drastic times now and drastic measures are necessary,&#8221; she said at the United National Congress&#8217;s Monday night People&#8217;s Forum at Gasparillo.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPersad-Bissessar said it was past the stage of counselling hardened, cold-blooded killers and supporting them with taxpayers&#8217; money, as the People&#8217;s National Movement government has done. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to focus more on victims&#8217; rights and victims&#8217; needs,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>She said crime had reached such a state that criminals had made extortion a new business. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Businessmen are being forced to pay these criminals bribes to keep them from murdering, or raping, or kidnapping their relatives,&#8221;she said, adding that it would take only drastic measures to deal with them. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a nation under siege. While the criminals roam free in search of their prey, we huddle, petrified, behind burglar-proofed windows in self-imposed imprisonment,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>She said when the UNC was in government, it dealt aggressively with crime and that the party&#8217;s current plans to solve crime included bringing in external experts. <\/p>\n<p>This, she said, was the reason for bringing in former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik.<\/p>\n<p>Do you support hanging as a means of solving crime? Tell us what you think. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161079737<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinidad Express January 10th 2007 Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says killers should be hanged. &#8220;I believe that we need to seriously examine the actual implementation of the death penalty. &#8220;Yes, I am speaking about bringing back hanging. We live in drastic times now and drastic measures are necessary,&#8221; she said at the United National Congress&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNC: Bring back hangings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}