- Tofoya Page, tofoya.page@fnis.com, Fidelity National Information Services

From both sides

As a person who has been on both sides of the law, I am neither for or against the death penalty. It was not a deterrent to me when I was on the opposite side of the law.

Now? I am disgusted with the crime in my country. But the question is this: Do you think that you can scare a gunman with the death penalty who, in his own words, admits that he knows that he is not going to live to see his 25th birthday?

Next question: How do you expect a gunman to put down his gun when the only thing he knows to do is to use the gun?

- 'Was there once'

So much murder

I think death should be the punishment. No one should live in fear and worry if his or her child will come home from school. Everyone needs to account for his or her actions.

Who wants to go on a vacation to a country with so much murder?

- mabrown10148@yahoo.com

Jamaica not ready

With regard to capital punishment, I don't think Jamaica is ready for it. First and foremost, the justice system is too corrupt; there are just too many flaws within the system.

Capital punishment does not reduce the crime rate. As we can see in Jamaica, not even life sentences reduce the crime rate.

Let's take it a little further. Prison does not reduce the crime rate. Texas, in the United States, imposes capital punishment and yet the crime rate is still high.

- Vivienne, vjn1@sympatico.ca

Hang them high!

I think hanging should be resumed ... and Jamaicans For Justice should not fight it.

If you think about it, that group of people are all society people. They don't know what it is to have a family member or loved one brutally murdered.

Not until a situation reaches them are they gonna realise ... To hell with them! Hang them high!

- Nicholas Ogilvie, nick_glv@yahoo.com