THE EDITOR, Sir:
I AM a disgruntled citizen who is totally against the human rights groups. How dare they come into our country and try to tell our Government not to re-introduce capital punishment. Jamaica, with a population of just over 2.5 million person, has the third highest murder rate in the world. The Jamaican Government has tried so many methods, which have proven futile, and the human right groups have the audacity to try and stop the Government from resuming capital punishment.
Since the human right groups think that capital punishment should not be resumed, why haven't they given the Government some ideas to stem our escalating crime rate?
As the famous saying goes "duppy know who fi frighten" and because Jamaica is a small island they feel that they have the OK to come and tell us how to run our penal system yet the big and mighty Amnesty International is as quiet as a mouse in the US.
The members of the human rights group can always talk because they have not lost a close loved one by the gun. There are so many police officers that die by the gun in Jamaica, and in all my years of knowing about these human rights groups I have never heard them protest over the killing of a police officer, but yet when a policeman kills a criminal they (the human rights) are the ones to chastise the police for using excessive force. Aren't the police human with rights too?
I believe that capital punishment should be re-introduced regardless of what the human rights groups want to say.
I am, etc.,
SANJAY LEWIS
sanjayolewis@hotmail.com
Petersfield
Westmoreland
Via Go-Jamaica
