The Chaguanas West MP announced his plans Saturday at his constituency office on Caroni Savannah Road constituency where he celebrated his 69th birthday with constituents. Warner turned 69 on Thursday.
Warner has been consistent in his support for hanging killers. The issue returned to his agenda earlier this month when three fishermen from his constituency were murdered at sea.
He said he will devote the campaign to the memory of the men and call it "A Fisherman’s Cry".
Warner said volunteers would go house-to-house to collect signatures in support of the hanging bill.
He promised that the campaign would be bigger than the movement for change, which he used to effect change in the leadership of the United National Congress (UNC) that led to the defeat of the Manning PNM in the 2010 general election.
He said now is the time for MPs to represent the people and not themselves.
Last week Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that she will bring back a hanging bill to Parliament and seek public support for it.
The bill, which needed a special majority, was defeated last year when the opposition refused to vote for it.
“It is part of the law of Trinidad and Tobago, and therefore the lack of support from the Opposition on the last occasion prevented it from going through and so we will try again because we have to find ways to reduce the crime rate,” she said earlier this month.
And last Tuesday at a rally to celebrate her second anniversary as leader of the UNC she challenged Opposition Leader Keith Rowley to explain why he and his MPs refused to support the legislation while they continue to claim that they support the execution of convicted killers.
She publicly called on Rowley for support. "Let us have your proposals, because we are willing to consider them in the public’s interest. We are committed to implementing the death penalty because it is the law,” she told supporters.
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