WE HAVE TRIED IT THEIR WAY:

Both Jamaican dai­ly’s car­ried the sto­ry of the Prime Minister sug­gest­ing that the mon­sters that are respon­si­ble for the series of grue­some decap­i­ta­tion should face the death penalty.

The prime min­is­ter said he is pre­pared for the debate that will fol­low his sug­ges­tions. Mister Prime min­is­ter , don’t you real­ly mean the howls of con­dem­na­tion that is sure to come. guar­an­teed the lib­er­al crim­i­nal cod­dling forces with­in Jamaica’s media, cler­gy Intelligentsia, legal fra­ter­ni­ty, and the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty will be up in arms…hold it hold it ..you can hold your breadth they will be com­ing at you..

Lets take a look at the death penal­ty : The debate sur­round­ing the death penal­ty will nev­er be set­tled , the pros and cons are pret­ty dug in on this sub­ject. I must con­fess that although I lean toward the death penal­ty being enforced . I have strong reser­va­tions about the prospect of an inno­cent per­son being put to death, that scares the liv­ing day­lights out of me, and places me square­ly on the fence on this issue.

Over the years there have been cas­es in the United States , where seri­ous doubts have been raised about an exe­cut­ed per­son­’s guilt. in States like South Carolina and Texas that does have the death penal­ty. In most cas­es activists point to the dis­pro­por­tion­ate exe­cu­tion of blacks and Latinos over whites that com­mit the same crimes, those have been argu­ments made for gen­er­a­tions , they make up a part of America’s his­to­ry and maybe her shame. In Jamaica the script is almost the same except the argu­ment is not one of racism , but class ‑ism.

Jamaica ‘s colo­nial past , and the Genesis of the con­stab­u­lary gives life to this argu­ment that poor­er peo­ple are treat­ed dif­fer­ent­ly by the Police. Much the same way Americas racist Jim crow past, lends cred­i­bil­i­ty to the argu­ments assigned to that country.

Prosecutors and law enforce­ment offi­cials argue that they arrest and pros­e­cute fair­ly, irre­spec­tive of class or race. Those assur­ances have done noth­ing to allay the fears of those opposed to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. My per­son­al feel­ings are guid­ed by what was taught to me at the Jamaica police acad­e­my in 1982.” It is bet­ter for the guilty to go free, than for an inno­cent per­son to be con­vict­ed . I have to how­ev­er bal­ance that with some­thing else I was taught at the same insti­tu­tion.” There can be no greater respon­si­bil­i­ty placed on any per­son, than that which requires you to bring the killer of anoth­er human being to justice.

Opponents of the death penal­ty argue that it is not a deterrent.

As a qua­si sup­port­er of the death penal­ty I ask how do you know?

As a child grow­ing up in the sev­en­ties I am acute­ly aware of the dread that was placed on my heart when I heard the word [Wanda ] Mister Wanda was the Hangman in Spanish Town​.As I recall , there was way less crime at that time, and cer­tain­ly the grue­some nature of what we are wit­ness­ing at this time was def­i­nite­ly not there.

The depraved indif­fer­ence, inher­ent in the crimes being com­mit­ted, seem to sug­gest to me a lay per­son ‚that the per­pe­tra­tors do not have any fear of being caught. Reports indi­cate that in some cas­es groups of 30 – 40 heav­i­ly armed men are involved in car­ry­ing out these atroc­i­ties. The sheer num­bers, if true , not to men­tion the weapon­ry involved , sug­gest they fear no one, and are pre­pared to take on all comers.

If a Police patrol that includes two offi­cers come upon these mili­tia mem­bers decap­i­tat­ing some­one ‚what chance do they have, except to try to save their own lives? As I have argued before, this is a mil­i­tary prob­lem, that requires a mil­i­tary solu­tion. The prob­lem in Tivoli Gardens was a mil­i­tary prob­lem that required a mil­i­tary solu­tion, that was effect­ed and now the com­mu­ni­ty of Tivoli gar­dens is open for police services.

What both­ers me is how in the name of God ‚could any­one in their right mind sit on their ass­es and talk about rights in the face of these goings on.

Agitators like Carolyn Gomes of Jamaicans for jus­tice ‚some pas­tors, those in the media who sit on their fat ass­es in radio stu­dios , and a pletho­ra of oth­er bleed­ing heart lib­er­al crim­i­nal sup­port­ing frauds, are quick to con­demn the police for doing what they are sworn to do, erad­i­cate the scourge from among us. Unfortunately some with­in the police force have com­pro­mised their posi­tion , allow­ing crim­i­nals to point to them as the enemy.

According to the prime min­is­ter, Parliament vot­ed more than a year ago to retain the death penal­ty, and the Government will uphold the law.
The Parliament has also passed laws, lim­it­ing the peri­od in which a con­vict on death row must com­plete all his appeals.
With that amend­ment, a con­vict will not be allowed to stretch out the appeals peri­od beyond five years when his exe­cu­tion would no longer be pos­si­ble based on the Pratt and Morgan ruling.
In the Pratt and Morgan case, the UK-based Privy Council held that it was inhu­mane to have a con­vict on death row for more than five years.
As a con­se­quence, con­victs on death row for more than five years would have their sen­tences com­mut­ed to life in prison. ( source: Jamaica gleaner)

Question to the Prime min­is­ter:Why did you not uphold the laws as you swore to do? Let me haz­ard a guess ! you refused to hon­or your com­mit­ment to the Constitution because you are behold­en to Amnesty International and their sur­ro­gates in Jamaica, Jamaicans for Justice.

Amnesty International which is based in London, with offices scat­tered over the world, cer­tain­ly does not get to tell the British Government how to secure that country.British cities are stitched togeth­er with secu­ri­ty cam­eras on every corner,more than any oth­er coun­try in the world,Arguable a civ­il rights vio­la­tion, British cit­i­zens are watched 24 – 7 year round 365. British Authorities do not tol­er­ate crim­i­nal­i­ty in their coun­try, Jamaica is as we speak , try­ing to cope with the avalanche of depor­tees being sent back to Jamaica. Conversely, as a cost sav­ing mea­sure the British Government is will­ing to pay pris­on­ers of Jamaican Nationality to go back home before their peri­od of incar­cer­a­tion is even over .

That amounts to a sim­ple fact we do not want you here. Prime Minister Golding ‚you dithered on this impor­tant issue, as you have on oth­ers. If you are a leader you must chart a course and fol­low that course.Many will hate you, even as they ben­e­fit from your hard deci­sions, great lead­ers have been known to make unpop­u­lar deci­sions and have his­to­ry vin­di­cate them. You have failed to asso­ciate your­self with that greatness.Greatness that could have been attrib­uted to lead­ers like Hugh Lawson Shearer.

As you have dithered on the Christopher Coke issue , you reduced your­self to a mere spec­ta­tor, you could have seized the moment , make the tough deci­sions , live and die with your deci­sions. Unfortunately you allowed your­self to for­ev­er to be seen as a pro­tec­tor of a man, accused of seri­ous crimes. Those who despise you will nev­er love you, you have almost a year to be deci­sive with this mon­ster of ter­ror­ism, put earplugs in , tune out the idiots, save Jamaica. Or for­ev­er be a flash in the pan ‚a sad mis­take in Jamaica’s history.

Jamaicans liv­ing over­seas and at home have long demand­ed that their Government car­ry out their sworn oblig­a­tions to the con­sti­tu­tion and hang those whom the courts say should be hanged, What I find strange is that, Jamaica has one of the most lib­er­al jus­tice sys­tem any­where on the globe, yet on the rare occa­sion they are spurred into order­ing some­one exe­cut­ed , the Executive branch of Government refus­es to car­ry out their sworn duties.

The last exe­cu­tion in Jamaica was car­ried out on 18 February 1988. There were more than a 190 pris­on­ers under sen­tence of death at the end of 1988. Currently there are nine pris­on­ers on death row. The reduc­tion is prin­ci­pal­ly attrib­ut­able to three events. In 1992 the Jamaican Parliament amend­ed the Offences Against the Person Act to clas­si­fy some mur­ders as non-capital.The amend­ment applied retroac­tive­ly and result­ed in the com­mu­ta­tion of sen­tences to life impris­on­ment of a num­ber peo­ple who had been pre­vi­ous­ly manda­to­ri­ly sen­tenced to death. In 1993 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (cur­rent­ly Jamaica’s high­est court which sits in England) decid­ed, in the case of Pratt and Morgan v. the Attorney General of Jamaica, that exe­cut­ing a per­son who has spent a pro­longed peri­od on death row vio­lates Section 17 of the Constitution of Jamaica, which pro­hibits “inhu­man or degrad­ing pun­ish­ment or oth­er treat­ment.(source;amnesty inter­na­tion­al)

What this means is that the Government of the peo­ple’s nation­al par­ty, through­out its entire unprece­dent­ed ¹⁸¹⁄₂ years in office, refused to hon­or their oblig­a­tions as guardians of the con­sti­tu­tion. when looked at in tan­dem with the fact that they allowed the secu­ri­ty forces to fall into seri­ous decay,not one detec­tive trained in ten years , it is clear to see where the prob­lem emanat­ed from. Populism, pan­der­ing, and the desire to hold pow­er ‚irre­spec­tive of con­se­quence to coun­try, has brought us to the brink of anarchy.

In 2008 when Jamaica’s Parliament was get­ting ready to vote on the issue of the death penal­ty , Amnesty International had this to say.

As Jamaican Parliamentarians are due to vote short­ly on a motion on whether to retain the death penal­ty, Amnesty International calls on the Jamaican author­i­ties to reject the death penal­ty and instead pri­or­i­tize reforms to the police and jus­tice sys­tem in order to tack­le the coun­try’s vio­lent crime epidemic.

The vote has emerged in the light of dis­cus­sion around the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms Bill, which seeks to replace Chapter III of the Jamaican Constitution ded­i­cat­ed to the pro­tec­tion of fun­da­men­tal rights and free­dom of per­sons. The pur­pose of the vote is to decide whether pro­vi­sions cre­at­ing the death sen­tence excep­tions to the right to life and to pro­tec­tion from tor­ture or inhu­man or degrad­ing pun­ish­ment or oth­er treat­ment, should be retained or delet­ed from the Charter. This vote also comes at a time of spi­ralling vio­lent crime in a coun­try with one of the high­est per capi­ta mur­der rates in the world.

Amnesty International under­stands that high lev­els of crim­i­nal­i­ty cre­ate vic­tim after vic­tim and wel­comes the Jamaican government’s com­mit­ment to address­ing vio­lent crime. However, the orga­ni­za­tion strong­ly believes that the use of the death penal­ty, as well as con­sti­tut­ing a cru­el, inhu­man and degrad­ing pun­ish­ment, is not an effec­tive method of pre­vent­ing crime.

Given the unlike­li­hood of ever being brought before the courts, it is high­ly implau­si­ble that before com­mit­ting a crime a crim­i­nal would con­sid­er the risk of being hung and would refrain from wrong-doing. On the con­trary, the reten­tion of the death penal­ty spreads across the soci­ety the mes­sage that killing is per­mit­ted. The death penal­ty also runs the risk of irrev­o­ca­ble error. Country after coun­try, includ­ing Jamaica, has inflict­ed the death penal­ty upon those inno­cent of the crime for which they were con­demned. Numerous stud­ies have also shown that it tends to be applied dis­crim­i­na­to­ri­ly on grounds of race and class. In a coun­try like Jamaica, where the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem is deeply flawed and cor­rup­tion is rife through­out dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions, how can the pub­lic have con­fi­dence that the state will not kill inno­cent people?

Amnesty International believes that the true solu­tion to the appalling crime sit­u­a­tion does not lie with the death penal­ty. The answers can be found instead by pri­or­i­tiz­ing reforms to the police and jus­tice sys­tem that are already under way. These include imple­ment­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from the strate­gic review of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Justice Sector Reform Review and expe­dit­ing the pas­sage of leg­is­la­tion to estab­lish an inde­pen­dent com­mis­sion to inves­ti­gate police abus­es and an Office of Coroner to exam­ine alleged police kills.(source:amnesty inter­na­tion­al )

Jamaicans and peo­ple all over the world . What this lib­er­al left-wing group is say­ing is don’t both­er about the mur­der­ers, don’t both­er about the mer­ci­less killers,the orga­ni­za­tion strong­ly believes that the use of the death penal­ty, con­sti­tutes cru­el, inhu­man and degrad­ing pun­ish­ment, and is not an effec­tive method of pre­vent­ing crime.

Well we have tried it their way, since the 1980’s not one per­son has been made to pay for their crimes of mur­der. This state­ment was issued by that agency on the 21^st of Nov: 2008 ‚their way .Since then thou­sands of Jamaicans have ben slaugh­tered , to include Police Officers and mem­bers of Jamaica’s military.

We have tried it their way .

Now let’s do it our way.