{"id":3938,"date":"2010-07-07T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2010-07-21T01:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T05:33:32","slug":"to-hang-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3938","title":{"rendered":"To Hang or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hanging\"<\/a>
Hanging<\/figcaption><\/figure>July 20, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

Don’t Hang Them<\/a>
\nVerna St Rose-Greaves, who has been named Special Advisor on Children’s Affairs to Prime Minister Kamla Persasd-Bissessar, is against the People’s Partnership’s current moves to return to the hangman, saying she will not compromise on her views that capital and corporal punishment have no place in a civilised society.
\n
\n…Verna: I will walk if hangings resume<\/a><\/p>\n

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July 18, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

Martin Daly: The fallacy about hanging<\/a>
\nThis week I write about implementation of the death penalty. I seek to infuse recent extempo utterances on that subject with a stiff dose of legal reality.<\/p>\n

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To Hang or Not?<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n

Newsday Editorial
\nJuly 07, 2010 – newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

MINISTER of Works, Jack Warner, has placed the question of the death penalty back on to the public agenda, with his remarks on Monday that he has advised Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, to work towards resuming hangings in this country. He told reporters, \u201cAs Acting Prime Minister, I want to tell you that on Thursday at Cabinet meeting, we will sit down and discuss ways and means of starting back hangings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warner said that the mere passage of new laws by the Government would not deter criminals if there is a lack of political will to enforce the death penalty as meted out by the law courts. He noted there have been 265 murders so far this year, which we note is only half-way through.<\/p>\n

The 120-Day Plan of the People\u2019s Partnership Manifesto in the recent general election had vowed, as item 11, to initiate an anti-crime plan to cut the country\u2019s high murder rate, with the first phase of the plan running from June to December.<\/p>\n

To add to the Government\u2019s urgency is the need to be seen to be hitting the ground running, especially in view of the impending July 26 Local Government Election a mere two months after the general election.<\/p>\n

Mr Warner\u2019s remarks may well re-ignite debate on a contentious issue in which both sides of the fence have sincerely-held views. Does the death penalty deter future homicides, and even if not, is it justifiable under the old adage of an eye for an eye? Or is this nation best served by adopting the values of first world countries (presumably to which this country aspires to emulate) most of which have abolished the death penalty?
\nFull Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 20, 2010 Don’t Hang Them Verna St Rose-Greaves, who has been named Special Advisor on Children’s Affairs to Prime Minister Kamla Persasd-Bissessar, is against the People’s Partnership’s current moves to return to the hangman, saying she will not compromise on her views that capital and corporal punishment have no place in a civilised society.<\/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":[6,462,1,186,396,30,7,160],"tags":[44,1057,147,1015,492],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-death-penalty","category-general-tt","category-law","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","category-security","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-death-penalty","tag-jack-warner","tag-politics","tag-verna-st-rose-greaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","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=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}