I do not begin to suggest to have all the answers to Jamaica’s metastasizing kill culture, but I do recall that when there used to be hangings things were a lot different.
Do you remember when [Wanda used to bruk the fucka dem neck]? I was a kid but I remember.
But just like how we are still using a Constitution which was drawn up after our so-called Independence from Britain, while we are still pledging allegiance to Britain, we are still stuck trying to make our way as a country using the directives and customs of our oppressors today.
The last execution in Jamaica was on the 18th of February 1988, when Nathan Foster and Stanford Dinnal were hanged for murder. Since then Jamaica which is a part of the British Commonwealth has declared a moratorium on Capital punishment, effectively filling up the Island’s jails with murderous scumbags who should be sent to meet their makers and creating many more who are confident that they will never see a hangman’s noose.
According to [capitalpunishmentuk.org] The British Commonwealth comprises of 54 member countries (Zimbabwe withdrew in 2003 having been previously suspended), with a combined population of nearly 1.8 billion people, representing some 30% of the world’s population.|
It is important that we reconcile the fact that powerful nations like the United States as a Federal entity, France and others, though not part of the British empire have not signed on to any moratorium to end capital punishment.
At a glance :
| Country | Population | Retentionist | Abolitionist — year of abolition | Last execution | Method |
| Antigua & Barbuda | 66,000 | Y | 21/02/1991 | Hanging | |
| Australia | 18,324,000 | Y — see above | 03/02/1967 | Hanging | |
| Bahamas | 284,000 | Y | 06/01/2000 | Hanging | |
| Bangladesh | 121,671,000 | Y | 2013 — ongoing | Hanging | |
| Barbados | 264,000 | Y | 10/10/1984 | Hanging | |
| Belize | 222,000 | Y | ??/06/1985 | Hanging | |
| Botswana | 1,480,000 | Y | 27/05/2013 | Hanging | |
| Brunei Darussalam | 290,000 | Y | P | 10/08/1995 | Hanging |
| Cameroon | 13,676,000 | Y | ??/01/1997 | ||
| Canada | 29,964,000 | Y — 1998 | 11/12/1962 | Hanging | |
| Cyprus | 740,000 | Y — 2002 | 13/06/1962 | Hanging | |
| Dominica | 74,000 | Y | 08/08/1986 | Hanging | |
| Fiji | 803,000 | Y — 1979 | 1964 | Hanging | |
| Gambia | 1,147,000 | Y | P | 24/08/2012 | Shooting |
| Ghana | 17,522,000 | Y | 25/07/1993 | Shooting | |
| Grenada | 99,000 | P | 17/10/1978 | Hanging | |
| Guyana | 839,000 | 2010 | ??/06/1996 | Hanging | |
| India | 945,121,000 | Y | 30/07/2015 | Hanging | |
| Jamaica | 2,547,000 | Y | 18/02/1988 | Hanging | |
| Kenya | 27,364,000 | Y | P | 09/07/1985 | Hanging |
| Kiribati | 82,000 | Y | None since independence | ||
| Lesotho | 2,023,000 | Y | Not known | ||
| Malawi | 10,016,000 | Y | 26/09/1992 | Hanging | |
| Malaysia | 20,565,000 | Y | 04/08/2006 | Hanging | |
| Maldives | 256,000 | P | 1952 | ||
| Malta | 373,000 | Y — 2000 | 1943 | ||
| Mauritius | 1,134,000 | Y — 1995 | 10/10/1987 | ||
| Mozambique | 18,026,000 | Y — 1990 | ??/05/1986 | ||
| Namibia | 1,584,000 | Y — 1990 | 1990 | ||
| Nauru | 11,000 | P | None since independence in 1968 | ||
| New Zealand | 3,635,000 | Y — 1989 | 18/02/1957 | Hanging | |
| Nigeria | 114,568,000 | Y | 24/06/2013 | Hanging | |
| Pakistan | 133,510,000 | Y | 2015 — ongoing | Hanging | |
| Papua New Guinea | 4,401,000 | P | 1957 | Hanging | |
| Samoa | 172,000 | Y | P | 1951 | Hanging |
| Seychelles | 77,000 | Y | None since independence | ||
| Sierra Leone | 4,630,000 | Y | 19/10/1998 | Shooting | |
| Singapore | 3,044,000 | Y | 2014 — ongoing | Hanging | |
| Solomon Islands | 389,000 | Y | None since independence | ||
| South Africa | 37,643,000 | Y — 1997 | See above | Hanging | |
| Sri Lanka | 18,300,000 | Y | P | 23/06/1976 | Hanging |
| St Kitts & Nevis | 41,000 | Y | 19/12/2008 | Hanging | |
| St Lucia | 158,000 | Y | 17/10/1995 | Hanging | |
| St Vincent & the Grenadines | 112,000 | Y | 13/02/1995 | Hanging | |
| Swaziland | 926,000 | Y | 02⁄071983 | Hanging | |
| Tanzania | 30,494,000 | Y | ??/10/1994 | Hanging | |
| Tonga | 97,000 | Y | P | 07/09/1982 | Hanging |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 1,297,000 | Y | 28/07/1999 | Hanging | |
| Tuvalu | 10,000 | Y | Never | ||
| Uganda | 19,741,000 | Y | 03/03/2003 | Shooting or Hanging | |
| United Kingdom | 58,782,000 | Y — 1998 | 13/08/1964 | Hanging | |
| Vanuatu | 173,000 | Y | None since independence | ||
| Zambia | 9,215,000 | Y | ??/01/1997 | Hanging |
With the exception of Australia, all of the above-named countries are poor countries with black and brown populations.
Britain as the former head oppressor and lord almighty of all the aforementioned nations and it’s close surrogate Australia can easily afford not to have capital punishment in the societies.
They have developed societies with not a lot of guns lying around and not an inordinate amount of crime either.
Jamaica as a small dependent follower nation is not even strong enough to write a constitution which allows Jamaicans to pledge loyalty and allegiance to Jamaica.
Instead, our people are pledging allegiance to a foreign power which does not have their interest at heart.
Just ask the Windrush generation and the hundreds of people who left Jamaica as babies who have found themselves unceremoniously dumped back unto a Jamaica they do not know because they may have committed an offense.
Jamaica derives zero benefits from Britain, yet she continues in slavish servitude to [our sovereign lady the queen]sic.
Jamaica is not allowed to hang it’s murderers so it may send a strong message to others who would walk the same path. But as in everything else, Jamaican leaders are completely deferential to the offsprings of our ancestral oppressors. So when they tell us we should not hang murderers we stopped even though our society was overflowing with murders and other violent crimes.
Now they have wormed their way into Jamaica’s enforcement system and is affecting how our police are able to do their jobs a‑la INDECOM and the phalanx of criminal rights lobby which has all but taken over and dominated the legislative process.
Still, the political leadership is blissfully ignorant that the supposed help they are offering Jamaica is a Trojan horse which wrecking our country, because they are crime enhancing help.
Many of the Island’s politicians have bloody hands, others have dirt on their hands, hardly any of the 63 at the parliamentary level have clean hands, and so the culture of criminality which has been metastasizing over the last three decades works perfectly for them.
On the one hand, they are able to seem like they are doing something about the rampant and existential criminality by bringing in the white man to tell them what to do, even though they have seen the signs and the data that their so-called help is a Trojan horse which is creating and breeding murderers.
A crime-ridden failed state Jamaica, is a state forever dependent on them for loans.
Let me be clear, neither The United States nor Great Britain has any other nation’s interest at heart except their own. (Outside of the apartheid state of Israel of course).
Nations do not have friends, they have interest, Jamaica does not have oil or any precious metal and the majority of its people are black and brown.
The sooner Jamaicans recognize this the better off they will be.
On that basis, the INDECOM Act must be repealed and the hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars wasted each year on that dark hole must be reallocated to our law enforcement efforts.
There are no Jamaicans inside Britain telling them how to run their government and there should be no Brit in our country telling us how to run ours.
The litany of criminal rights groups now converged and operating in our country must be sidelined and shown the way to one or both of the two International Airports forthwith.
Our police must be empowered to do their jobs with clear rules of engagement.
How in God’s name can criminals fire at police officers from a vehicle, the police correctly returned the fire and are charged with a crime, convicted and sent to prison for killing someone in that vehicle. Convicted for doing exactly what they were supposed to do?
These are the signs of a failed society. One infected to the core, dying slowly like a body terminally taken over by cancer.
The society too, must be hauled by its incredibly stupid ass into the reality that crime is bad for everyone.
The legislative and Judicial arm of the Government must stop being an enemy of the rule of law and embark on a transformational process of healing and reformation with a view to restoring our country to its former peace and tranquility.
Jamaica can and must govern herself. We should no longer allow foreigners to tell us how to do so. We cannot tell anyone how to run their country, no one should tell us how to run ours.
Mike Beckles is a former Jamaican police corporal, business owner, avid researcher, and blogger. He is also a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com. You may subscribe to his blogs free of charge.