Heartly NeitaIN YEARS past when men reached a state of uncontrolled anger, many were said to have said, "If me kill you me cyan hang, for me we get Barrister Norman Manley fe defend me."
Today, there is no Norman Manley to defend murderers. Nevertheless, if they are caught and sentenced to hang on the gallows, they will most likely remain alive until death comes from natural causes.
During the past six years or more, over 500 murders are committed in Jamaica which are considered capital murder and ,therefore, the murderers, if caught and found guilty, should have their necks stretched by rope. Yet not one man has been hung in the Spanish Town prison for some 20 years.
Some 39 years ago, Prime Minister Hugh Shearer revealed he had received a number of letters asking him to hang murderers at noon in public squares. Those letters wanted the hanging to take place in the town, village or community in which the murderers had killed their victims.
DEFENDING MURDERERS
Today murderers not only have attorneys to defend them and drag out their trials and appeals, ad infinitum, but also human rights apologists who know more about forensic evidence, DNA, fingerprinting and other aspects of crime solution than the persons who are trained to do so. Meanwhile, men slaughter women and children, willy-nilly, and are protected by crowds who shout for justice and become movie stars on television.
I may have missed the reports, but I have not read a single statement from the apologists expressing sympathy to the family of the little children who were slaughtered recently. Not a peep. As to those who are so slaughtered can anyone imagine their awful pain and suffering during the final moments of life. Yet there are people who believe that the perpetrators should not suffer a similar fate. Instead they should remain alive and die from illnesses or old age.
As to the rape of little children, as far as I am concerned, every rapist should be hanged, or as some councillors in the KSAC once called for that their penises should be amputated.
No one killed by the police is ever guilty of any crime, according to the orchestrated crowds.
"Him was reading him Bible in him bed when de police shoot him in him head."
"Him go church every Sunday, and even teach Sunday school."
"Him is from a good Christian family."
Last Wednesday, a woman was stabbed to death in church by a man who wanted to steal her purse. I am sure he did not live in close proximity to the church. He must have been seen by many hurrying away for shelter, in blood-stained clothes. Yet, up to the time of writing this column, two days later, not one man, woman or child has reported seeing this murderer. They are party to her death and are equally guilty of her murder.
Christians are supposed to plead of such persons, "may God have mercy on their souls". I could never be God!
Hartley Neita
