Squeezing out another blog post

 

I want to squeeze out another blog post but I'm not too sure what to concentrate on as I am doing the squeezing. The brutal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess & the Robin Hood Killer in Norway. You turn on the radio, (that is where I get most of my news or from the Internet), and the dystopian future ticker tapes into your lug holes. These are random acts of senseless violence but they must have made sense to the perpetrators at the time. I foresaw insanity way back in February 2020 before the pandemic lockdown really kicked in, in the UK. When the Freedom Day Barrage Balloon went up on July 19th I was surprised that all the surpressed rage and frustration didn't flood out in many wanton acts of violence but now we are hearing about random acts of violence. They are shocking but we get over them because we haven't (hopefully) been personally affected. We get back on the horse and do whatever we have to do.

I never thought that I would say it, let alone propound it in a blog post especially as a a left leaning sometime socialist BUT I have been thinking more and more about the death penalty for certain pre planned and pre meditated crimes. If there had been a death penalty in place would this have stopped the course of actions undertaken by Wayne Couzens and Ali Harbi Ali. Would they have thought 'Hang on, if I carry on and get caught I will definitely be killed by the state?'

If that deterrent were in place then Sarah Everard and Sir David Amess might be alive today. Before you think I'm going all Priti Patel on you there would have to be many caveats put in place. How do you and can you prove whether somebody is criminally insane? If a cold blooded rapist or murderer is offered the choice of the death penalty or a life behind bars they might well choose the easy way out of lethal injection by syringe driver. It might not be the way out chosen by martyrs for an ideological cause within the walls of Belmarsh but I'm seriously wondering now whether it has to become an option.

Otherwise we will be accepting these events as normal and usual.

However many life sentences somebody is given does not bring the deceased back. What you are doing is hothousing sick minds within the walls of incarceration. What can you hope for in terms of rehabilitation? That they find God and repent? That they breakdown in prison? Surely this is the aim of punishment. To break a man's spirit, to break a man's will. Keep them inside long enough and then they will become old men with less lust, cruelty and testosterone. 

For somebody who doesn't believe in Prison as a form of punishment I am amazed that I am coming out with this twaddle but life is not sacrosanct. It never has been. Life is cheap, brutal, dirty and poor. These people have died inside mentally and emotionally before they fall to their knees.

I'm wondering whether it is worth introducing something to deter the pre planned from their course of action and before you ask whether I would be willing to administer the fatal dose. The answer is yes because NHS Doctors and Nurses do it everyday to put people out of their pain.