Death penalty remarks condemned
November 16, 2009 by Infowars Ireland
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has denounced as “deeply misguided and frivolous” a suggestion by the former president of the High Court that the use of the death penalty should be revisited.
The rights watchdog was responding to remarks made by Mr Justice Richard Johnson in which he said the issue of capital punishment for certain kinds of murder, such as those committed during armed robberies, should re-examined.
In an interview in The Irish Times , the former judge said: “The Government should look at it. Then if the people want it they should have it.”
“I am not totally in favour of it. But it should be revisited,” he said. “It would have to be for specific offences. If people arm up and go out to rob and decide to take out anyone who gets in their way, they should pay the price. It should be a matter for each individual case.”
But ICCL director Mark Kelly said the death penalty was unlawful in every European Union and every Council of Europe State.
“If Ireland wished to re-introduce the death penalty, it could do so only at the cost of renouncing its membership of the European Union and the Council of Europe,” he said.
“As a matter of law, it is deeply misguided for a retired judge to suggest that it is within the realms of possibility that the use of the death penalty in Ireland could be revisited.
“This would seem to be a frivolous suggestion by a judge noted for his wit,” Mr Kelly said.
The State legally abolished the death penalty in 1990 and put a constitutional ban on its re-introduction in 2001. Read more…
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The statement “ICCL director Mark Kelly said the death penalty was unlawful in every European Union and every Council of Europe State.” is incorrect. The death penalty is hidden within footnotes of the Lisbon treaty. However, it seems to be reserved for times of trouble. Since Ireland is in a time of trouble with crime creeping into every nook and cranny of the nation, then perhaps it is time to lop off the murderers who prey upon the sick and aged. Why just reserve the death penalty for the oppression of the middle classes when they one day choose to rise up against the emerging EU superstate? Let us eliminate the criminal rubbish who terrorize good people.