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Hang murderers by their toes & bleed them to death

One of the subjects that have a perniciously polarising effect on people of all nationalities is the issue of what to do with murderers, particularly in cases of premeditated murders.

What do you think should be done with murderers?

In John Grisham’s novel entitled, A Time to Kill, a man killed two young men after they raped his ten-year old daughter. A character named Row Ark felicitously asked a minor protagonist, a lawyer named Harry Rex, the question, “In your rational, civilised, and compassionate mind, what do you think we should do with them [child pornographers and terrorists]?”

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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