Dear Editor,

A crime is committed whenever anyone violates an established law of the land. The individual who commits a crime is called a criminal and therefore ought to suffer the consequence of his/her unlawful action.

That criminal, voluntarily and autocratically by his/her own thought, justifies his/her action which is also premeditated.

The criminal does not even have to know the potential victim personally other than from a recent photograph, place of work or abode. The killer acts on the instructions of his boss.

If he is caught, he may seek the service of a lawyer or pastor because he does not want to face the consequences of his dreadful, nefarious actions.

He may then start begging for mercy, and the ‘criminal rights’, bleeding hearts and so-called Christian groups may even join the chorus line, pleading for mercy for the perpetrator. Where were those lawyers and pastors when the victims’ bodies were being shot up or chopped up?

How can they now say that a ‘justifiable’ punishment by death or life imprisonment is harsh? How can they assert that those deaths were not ‘worst of the worst’?

How do you explain to a relative, a loved one, a co-worker that they will not be able to see, talk to, laugh with that human being any more?

I repeat, whenever an individual knowingly, autocratically and maliciously commits a crime, that person has adopted a new name — Criminal.

Therefore, he must boldly accept the consequences of that criminal action.

Hugh Innis

PO Box 6292

Montego Bay, St James