Yes, Adrian Taylor (View Points, August 16), let us bring back capital punishment, regardless of the enormous international legal implications and the fact that our own judicial system is just a shade fallible.
Specifically, if anyone is eventually convicted of Tia Sharp’s murder – and we have the bizarre concept of the presumption of innocence in this country – his or her sentence will be rather stiffer than “a couple of years in a comfy cell”, and I somehow doubt whether the culprit would be too popular with the other prisoners or officers either.
And let us also advocate the re-introduction of national service, there being nothing like conscription to teach the nation’s youth when it is right or wrong to kill.
DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court Oxford
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