George Henry, Gleaner Writer
Azan
SPALDINGS, Clarendon:
MEMBER OF Parliament for North West Clarendon Richard Azan has expressed an interest in becoming the 'Hangman' as soon as Government decides to resume capital punishment.
Azan who was speaking in an interview with The Sunday Gleaner, said the time has long passed for the Government to
re-introduce capital punishment and that the increase in murder which has been driving fear into the hearts of law-abiding Jamaicans over recent weeks has made it even clearer why
hanging should be resumed.
Mr. Azan, who said he has been calling for hanging to be resumed for some time stated that he has said so in Parliament.
"I am 100 per cent in support of hanging because I feel that if we start hanging the criminals, the crime rate will decline," said the young MP.
He went further to say we should start with persons who are now on death row and that the State should start hanging up to five persons per day for the brutal crimes which they have committed.
"A number of persons right now are willing to take on the job as 'Hangman' free of cost to the state and I am one of them interested in the job. If they resume right now and give me the job I would willingly take it, because we need to rid the society of these wicked and heartless criminals," stated Mr. Azan.
He stated that Government need to act now and use the money that is currently being used to feed those on death row to provide resources for health and education.
Noting that the message that murderers are sending to the wider society, is that they (murderers) can go and kill persons and return to their areas to live a comfortable life while relatives of victims continue to suffer from the effects of their loved ones being killed, Mr. Azan stated that that should not be allowed to continue.
He said in some instances the period of trial of persons who are known perpetrators is too long and drawn out and so cases need to be dismissed more speedily.
