Justice

The Irish Times asks today in its daily news poll if the death penalty should be reintroduced. The answer for me is No. The Birmingham 6, Guildford 4 and many other innocent people would have been put to death if the death penalty had been available in such cases. It is very important that the State remains above barbarism and acts of cruelty, if the State becomes cruel and barbaric then people will lose faith in that State and its institutions of justice. The Irish Republic has one of the greatest criminal justice systems in the world, it is fair and just, yet it has like any system its flaws. In the Irish Republic there has time and again been political interference with the judicial process, depending on the case people some times turn a blind eye to such criminal political behaviour. However, our system demands safe guards against such interference, it demands safe guards against mis-carrages of justice. There are many self serving, self profiling, money grabbing makey up groups out there who would do anything to heighten their profile so that they get more tax dollars from the State each year to furnish their lavish life style, these makey up groups need to be kept in check and indeed we would be a better country if they were closed down altogether. The death penalty is a mis-carrage of justice that once executed can not be undone, many with skeletons in their own cupboard will champion such cruelty simply to keep the camera pointing in a different direction, however, we have seen it all before, "They who shout loudest about the crimes of others do so to conceal their own crimes".