DR. MAVIS Gilmour, a former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member of Parliament voted against hanging in 1979.
"I think the death penalty is not something I would say should never be used now," she told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday. "Some of the murders being perpetrated now are so unimaginable the death penalty has to be reserved for some of these."
Mrs. Gilmour, however, cautioned there should first be an evaluation of the murderer's 'psychological state' before the death sentence is passed.
When asked if she had indeed shifted from her earlier position, she replied: "It's brought on by the types of crime, the pre-meditated, calculated ones being committed."
Seymour Mullings and O.D. Ramtallie, both People's National Party MPs in 1979, voted to retain the death penalty.
"I probably would vote the same way today," Mr. Mullings, a former deputy prime minister said. "There is nothing that has happened that would make me change my mind."
"If I were to vote again, I would vote for hanging now," Mr. Ramtallie stated. "We really have to try and curtail the number of murders."
