The Death Penalty

 I agree with President Trump

A heated debate

I accept this post is controversial, but it is MY view, and your are entitled to your views.

I have been in favour of the Death Penalty for a long, long, time.

I know humanists will always say there is the risk of killing the wrong person, or in the future a killer maybe cleared with new advances in science, on the other hand, why should the tax payer be lumbered with keeping a known killer alive, usually in a style that many of the public never have?

I can accept the Police may not wish to be armed, but in an age with armed criminals, do they have the choice?

Those against arming the police will always cite the Derek Bentley case as their opposition. Bentley, and his associate Timothy Evans, attempted an armed robbery with a sawn-off pistol.

The case for Bentley rests on the phrase "let him have it." Taken one way, it could be seen as hand the gun over, taken another way, after a failed robbery, and being trapped on the roof on the roof, it could be taken as shoot him.

There are factors to take into consideration before makng the judgement.

A  Why did Bentley need the gun?

B) To saw down a pistol is an art, if you do it wrong, the gun is as dangerous to the shooter as it is to the person it is aimed at.

C) Why did Bentley give his gun to Evans, a man he knew had a mental impairment?

The answer to A is he planned to rob the shop.

The answer to C is as a three-time offender, Bentley knew if he was caught, he would be in prison for many years.

My conclusion, Bentley knew what he was doing, and had no intention of being caught with a gun, handing it to Evans, then giving the misleading call was him giving himself the benefit of doubt his actions didn't warrant.

Science beats the defence

Around this time was another case which caused controversy, the James Hanratty murder.

Hanratty was charged with a murder  of Michael Gregston on the A6 road in 1962, he was also charged with the r##e, and attempted murder of Michael's girlfriend, Valerie Storie, who was shot FIVE times, and left paralysed.

His family based the defence on a witness saying he was in a shop in Rhyll, North Wales at the time of the murder. The family spent thousands of pounds using DNA evidence in later years, to prove his innocense, the verdict is the DNA proved what everyone knew, Hanratty did the crime.

I was never in any doubt, one of the reasons is Rhyll, even now, is a long journey, other than going to Ireland, you cannot go further west in the UK