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I take all the points about being absolutely certain of a person's guilt but there has to come a time where dragging the checking and re-checking out over years becomes not justice, but torture.

I would be in favour of a unanimous verdict and swift execution. Where a verdict is less than unanimous the sentence would have to be "life" without possibility of parole. Perhaps this would also help to end the ridiculous situation where some cases of murder are punished with a mere eight years in prison and others like Ian Brady and Peter Sutcliffe are detained until they die.

As far as the Human Rights Act goes, as we learned at the last election, the government and the opposition have both considered withdrawing from the European Convention and repealing the act, so I do not see that European interference would be that much of a problem.