I AM in full support of the death penalty for convicted murderers. While the act of hanging may seem gruesome, the heinous acts committed by these criminals are no less grisly. When persons, some of whom have no remorse or repentance, can hack to death a child, a child who may have been begging for help and mercy up to his or her last breath, they deserve no less punishment for their crime.

The means of death may, as Mr Audley Shaw and Mrs Portia Simpson Miller suggest, be by lethal injection or the electric chair, but they should be made to pay for the crimes committed against the lives of others. When a loved one, especially a child, is brutally murdered, the entire family suffers, a suffering which lasts for an entire lifetime. While there is forgiveness with God for every imaginable sin, the Bible, which most of our societal laws emulate, supported the notion of punishment for crimes against others. We are forgiven, but the consequences of our actions, we must face.

I am, etc.,

Penalty supporter