Jack keeps up campaign in favour of hangings

Jack Warner is not prepared to back down on his demands to hang convicted murderers.

The Works and Transport Minister promised on Sunday to "devote his life" to getting the government to said reintroduce the death penalty. And on Monday he wrote Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, pleading with him to bring back hangings.

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On Wednesday during a visit to his constituency Warner reiterated his commitment to the matter.

"We should not be guided by how we feel but be guided by how the people whom we represent feel. I brought the issue of the death penalty at the level of the nation, and anybody who has a problem with that, then I am sorry," he told reporters.

"But the fact is all that these people talking, I hope to God that one day, they don't feel the pain and trauma of having lost a son or daughter, especially the way it happened last weekend."

Warner's comment was in reference to Sunday's brutal murder of Neeshad Ali, 37, at his home in Carapichaima. Ali was hacked to death and wife and one-year-old daughter kidnapped. Police rescued them shortly after getting reports of the abduction.

Warner said, "They can talk now because they in their armchairs in the confines of their home with heavy security guards, and some of them are armed. But if you are in the kitchen and feeling the heat...when you are a victim of crime as heinous as that one," he said.

Warner suggested that Ramlogan could follow the approach of former AG Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, who severed the country's membership with several international human rights agencies.

He said he would write to the Queen and President of the United States, if necessary.

"I will write whoever I have to write to make sure the issue will be ventilated at all levels. And if in some way people are offended, well, sorry. And I will do it again if I have to," he said.