I agree wholeheartedly with the writer’s comment. Further, as someone who has lost a family member to murder (where guilt was not in doubt) I still abhor the so called “ultimate punishment”. Why? Because the death penalty ultimately punishes the convicted’s family rather than the convicted. Once a man is executed his “punishment” is over, however that of his family is only just begun. Why should the law allow us to punish families this way – mothers, fathers, children, wives,brothers and sisters – whole families – for the actions of their loved one. It is a very sick and twisted form of so called justice. It is pure vengeance, something I believe the law should be above. Forcing grief on a child because of a crime their father committed is the most unforgivable crime, cold blooded murder and torture. That is what the death penalty is.

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Welcome to your two BLOGGERS Dan Wainwright and Charlie Cashden. They both seem to follow the paper’s main policy of opposition to the war in Iraq and scepticism of the vast schemes promised such as Wolverhampton Building Schools for the Future which promises £350 to demolish our existing schools and replace them with Educational Academies which will privatise our educational system.

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