Let me assure the vengeance-fixated Richard Halfpenny (Opinion, May 5) I am entirely opposed to his call for the reintroduction of judicial murder, a far more honest term for what he has referred to as "sensible hanging" and, in a previous letter, "our death penalty".
That he should attempt to reduce the debate on so serious a matter as criminal conviction to the level of bookmakers' odds merely reveals a desperate man, imprisoned by brutish emotions and flawed reasoning.
-P D Jackson, Bryon Street, Hove
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