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6/2/1995
I am deeply concerned at the message sent to criminals by
our government and especially the A.N.C. with regard to the abolishment
of the
death penalty. The arguments against the death penalty are that as a detterant
it does not work, that innocent people might
be convicted, that the murderer
could be rehabilitated and that human life is more valuable and indeed holy,
despite the fact that
Homo Sapiens are destroying our planet like a malignant
cancer. Also that retribution is a durty word. Non of these spurious arguments
weigh up against the fact that murderers can not claim the right to life after
bruttaly denying the same right to their victims.
I enclose a
cutting from the Sunday Times which I believe saya it all and
which I believe
will satisfy the vast majority of South Africans on this
issue.
I end
this letter knowing full well that, with the likes of Minister Dullah Omar,
Lawyers for human rights and other pie-in-the- sky
liberals, the coming years
will see muggers, hijackers and A.K. 47 weilding murderers laughing their way
via jail to the bank.
D BOWKER
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