Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | June 19, 2005
Dangers of vigilante justice
THE MATTER-OF-FACT manner in which a man reported last Thursday of the summary dispatching of two would-be robbers in Westmoreland should make the guardians of the country's justice system shudder at our slow descent into barbarity.
THE PROPOSED plea-bargaining legislation is a bad idea. Law cannot maintain its majesty when it caters to the lowest common denominator in human nature. British common law is majestic. It was not born of religion or superstition. Even the Romans knew to.