Child killers pose a particular problem for our prison authorities - other prisoners cannot stand them. This is hardly surprising considering that even the toughest armed robbers are not devoid of all caring instincts. People with children of their own, who they may love very much, notwithstanding their otherwise violent natures, do not take kindly to people like Subhan Anwar, who was responsible for one of the most horrific child killings of the last 10 years - the torture and murder of his lover's two-year-old child Sanam Navsarka.
Anwar was sentenced to 23 years in prison, and was incarcerated at Long Lartin high secutiry prison in Worcestershire. However, he only served four years of his sentence, as two of his fellow-inmates held him hostage in his cell and then murdered him.
One cannot condone any individual taking the law into their own hands, but this incicent highlights the consequences of a nation departing from God's laws. The Bible is quite unequivocal. Genesis 9:6 says, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man." God presecibes the death penalty for murder - it couldn't be clearer. This verse pre-dates the founding of the Israelite nation, so cannot be dismissed even by those who would write off the entire Mosaic law as being only applicable for the Jews. It is found in God's covenant with Noah - applicable to all mankind. Such is the uniuqueness of man, made in the image and likeness of God and the pinnacle of his creation, that the only appropriate punishment for the deliberate taking of another human life is to forfeit your own.
Executions are grisly affairs, but in a sense they acted as a reminder of the dignity of man. The death penalty was on the statute books until the catastrophic tenure of Roy Jenkins as Home Secretary in the late 1960s - the man whose contribution to Britain's moral decline cannot be exaggerated. (He was also mentor to the odious Tony Blair - enough said.) The argument put up by abolitionists that there were some miscarriages of justice is a weak one. There are plenty of murderers whose guilt is proven beyond doubt. There is no mandate to execute anyone where there is a question mark about their culpability.
I don't know all the details of the Anwar case, but it seems that his guilt was established beyond reasonable doubt. He has now suffered the appropriate penalty, but not at the hands of the right people. The state should have put him to death, in accordance with the Bible's teaching, not two other criminals.
Of course, the left will howl at anyone advocating the restoration of the death penalty - and of course, we can't do it while we're tied ot the EU anyway, but I would point out two things. Firstly, as one writer said, the more a society values human life, the more severely it punishes the taking of it, and secondly, how many on the left support abortion? It's a bizarre lack of logic to allow the slaughter of nearly 200,000 babies in Britain whose only "crime" is that their parents didn't want them while objecting to the execution of cruel child killers like Subhan Anwar. But then the left aren't logical. If they actually started thinking sensibly, they would cease to hold their daft views altogether.
Anwar was sentenced to 23 years in prison, and was incarcerated at Long Lartin high secutiry prison in Worcestershire. However, he only served four years of his sentence, as two of his fellow-inmates held him hostage in his cell and then murdered him.
One cannot condone any individual taking the law into their own hands, but this incicent highlights the consequences of a nation departing from God's laws. The Bible is quite unequivocal. Genesis 9:6 says, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man." God presecibes the death penalty for murder - it couldn't be clearer. This verse pre-dates the founding of the Israelite nation, so cannot be dismissed even by those who would write off the entire Mosaic law as being only applicable for the Jews. It is found in God's covenant with Noah - applicable to all mankind. Such is the uniuqueness of man, made in the image and likeness of God and the pinnacle of his creation, that the only appropriate punishment for the deliberate taking of another human life is to forfeit your own.
Executions are grisly affairs, but in a sense they acted as a reminder of the dignity of man. The death penalty was on the statute books until the catastrophic tenure of Roy Jenkins as Home Secretary in the late 1960s - the man whose contribution to Britain's moral decline cannot be exaggerated. (He was also mentor to the odious Tony Blair - enough said.) The argument put up by abolitionists that there were some miscarriages of justice is a weak one. There are plenty of murderers whose guilt is proven beyond doubt. There is no mandate to execute anyone where there is a question mark about their culpability.
I don't know all the details of the Anwar case, but it seems that his guilt was established beyond reasonable doubt. He has now suffered the appropriate penalty, but not at the hands of the right people. The state should have put him to death, in accordance with the Bible's teaching, not two other criminals.
Of course, the left will howl at anyone advocating the restoration of the death penalty - and of course, we can't do it while we're tied ot the EU anyway, but I would point out two things. Firstly, as one writer said, the more a society values human life, the more severely it punishes the taking of it, and secondly, how many on the left support abortion? It's a bizarre lack of logic to allow the slaughter of nearly 200,000 babies in Britain whose only "crime" is that their parents didn't want them while objecting to the execution of cruel child killers like Subhan Anwar. But then the left aren't logical. If they actually started thinking sensibly, they would cease to hold their daft views altogether.