Send Her Back

Samantha Orobator is the young British woman convicted in Laos of trying to smuggle 1.5 pounds of heroin out of the country, usually the death penalty is applied in these cases, however in this case because she is pregnant her death sentence has been changed to life imprisonment, Laotian law does not allow pregnant women to be executed.

Yesterday Samantha arrived back in Britain to serve out the remainder of her sentence under the prisoner transfer scheme, this was an agreement recently signed between the two Countries, there was no scheme in place with Laos, it was rushed through especially for this case.

Mark my words It will not be long before this woman is released from jail, some legal loophole will be found to set her free, and it is wrong. The  lady in question  entered into this with her eyes open  she tried to smuggle heroin and got caught,  then amazingly got herself pregnant though she was incarcerated in an all woman jail, this said to avoid the death penalty.

We have enough drug dealers over here already, our jails are full of them, why should we take on the expense of another one when Laos is perfectly capable of looking after her in their jails, if the conditions there are to harsh, well she should have thought of that before she embarked on this venture.

I will be keeping an eye on this story, I  have a feeling wheels are already in motion to secure her release, titbits leaked to the press are casting doubts on her conviction, if she is released this will put into jeopardy our agreements with other Countries for exchanging prisoners. After all why should they trust us not  to release them once they are home,  the prisoner transfer scheme is in place so that convicted felons can serve sentences in their Countries of origin thus making it easier in terms of language spoken, conditions and for family to visit. We are risking this for a Drug dealer.

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The Washington Sniper

Seven years after he and his teenage sidekick terrorised the Washington area with a three-week killing spree using a high-powered rifle, John Allen Muhammad — the “Beltway sniper” — is due to be executed tonight by lethal injection.Unbelievably his appeals reached the supreme court, this maniac should have been denied the right of appeal,  Muhammad and his teenage sidekick drilled a hole in the boot of their car and while one drove the other lay in the back looking for targets to shoot at. Victims were randomly selected though they did favour shooting at people in petrol stations as they filled their cars, presumably because they were stationary and made for easier shots.

The terror this caused in and around the Washington area was immeasurable,  made worse because of the unique nature of the crime, bearing in mind also that this was not long after 9/11 with America still reeling from that horror.

He should not have been allowed 7 years, He should have been put to death immediately he was convicted, 10 people lost their lives in that killing spree and if they hadn’t have been caught that number would have grown there was no indication that they had finished.

When arrested he claimed Jihad (holy war) then changed his story to say he was trying to win his ex wife back, surely flowers and chocolates would have been more appropriate.

Under Virginia law, an inmate is allowed to choose the method by which he or she will be put to death -- either lethal injection or the electric chair. Because Muhammad declined to select a method, by law he will receive a lethal injection. I would prefer to see him beheaded an injection is to easy.

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Hang Them High

A lorry driver strangled his nine-year-old stepdaughter and left her body in the cab of his truck before hanging himself, police said yesterday.

I am going to state straight of this will have a sexual angle to it, from past atrocity's  the ingredients are there,  firstly its his stepdaughter and he has only been in her life a short time, in this case a year, that means when he met her he was a single man of 39 and she was a 8 year old girl,the father daughter bond that is there from birth does not come into play.

This does not suggest that every single man of that age is a child molester, just that extra care needs to be taken when exposing your children to these situations, sadly this is an all to familiar crime now, after the initial shock passes from hearing the news the brain just say oh no not another one then push’s it to one side and carry’s on.

Everyday we are subjected to a new horror, kids being kidnapped for sex seems to be the new “in crime” since the horror of Austria and the Frietzel  case more and more of these types of story are coming to light.

How many more are there out there, will we one day become immune to these the way that we are being desensitised to other crimes, A run of the mill murder nowadays barely makes page 8 of your newspaper, and only even then if it has a twist to it for example a body shoved into a suitcase, or kept in a freezer etc.

There is only one way to start to make inroads into the amount of monsters out there that commit these crimes, and give ideas to others to follow in their sick footsteps, that is Capital Punishment, this blog has called for the death penalty before and does so again with no hesitation, kids our most precious commodity need to be protected against this vermin, and I say with any tool at our disposal.

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Uganda Outlaw Gays

Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.

Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable.

Homosexuality remains criminalised in many Commonwealth countries, but the more liberal countries have been horrified by the new legislation.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is going through Uganda’s Parliament after receiving its first reading last month. According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death.

What strikes me as peculiar here apart from the obvious which is that this is so barbaric it defies belief is how come no other Countries other than Britain and Canada have complained, does this mean other nations agree with it or may even be planning to adopt it, unlikely I know even impossible, but I do ask this, albeit tongue in cheek, I wonder how many people slept peacefully in Hollywood last night.

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