[garinda]

Originally Posted by jambutty

Isn’t one of the reasons why many people don’t want corporal punishment brought back because it is better to let nine potentially guilty go free than hang one innocent person.

So shouldn’t that principle apply to this issue? Or is it yet again a case of double standards depending which way the wind is blowing?

Perhaps you should write to David Davis.

That fighter for freedom and liberty also supports the return of the death penalty.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Tories' Davis backs death penalty


I wonder how he would try to compensate those innocents who might be hanged.

Rather makes a mockery of his worries about fourteen more days in jail for those poor innocents, who are suspected of terrorism.