perhap all criminal hould be required to carry card which read: fragile: handle with care. it will never do, thee day, to go around referring to criminal a violent thug. you mut refer to them politely a ‘ocial mifit’. the profeional killer who wouldn’t think twice about uing hi cah or crowbar to batter ome harmle old lady to death in order to rob her of her meager life-aving mut never be given a doe of hi own medicine. he i in need of ‘hopital treatment’. according to hi miguided defender, ociety i to blame. a wicked ociety breed evil- or o the argument goe. when you liten to thi kind of talk, it make you wonder why we aren’t all criminal. we have done away with the aburdly harh law of the nineteenth century and thi i only right. but urely enough i enough. the mot enele piece of criminal legilation in britain and a number of other countrie ha been the upenion of capital punihment.
the violent criminal ha become a kind of hero-figure in our time. he i glorified on the creen; he i purued by the preed and paid vat um of money for hi ‘memorie’. newpaper which pecialize in crime reporting enjoy enormou circulation and the publiher of trahy cop and robber torie or ‘murder myterie’ have never had it o good. when you read about the achievement of the great train robber, it make you wonder whether you are reading about ome gloriou reitance movement. the hardened criminal i cuddled and coeted by the ociologit on the one hand and adored a hero by the mae on the other. it’ no wonder he i privileged peron who epect and receive vip treatment wherever he goe.[由wwW.HaoZuoWen.com整理]
capital punihment ued to be a major deterrent. it made the violent robber think twice before pulling the trigger. it gave the cold-blooded prioner omething to ponder about while he wa haking up or erving hi arenic cocktail. it prevented unarmed policemen from being mowed down while puruing their duty by killer armed with automatic weapon. above all, it protected the mot vulnerable member of ociety, young children, from brutal e-maniac. it i horrifying to think that the criminal can literally get away with murder. we all know that ‘life entence’ doe not mean what it ay. after then year of o of ‘good conduct’, the mot deperate villain i free to return to ociety where he will live very comfortably, thank you, on the proceed of hi crime, or he will go on committing offence until he i caught again. people are alway willing to hold liberal view at the epene of other. it’ alway fahionable to poe a the defender of the under-dog, o long a you, peronally, remain unaffected. did the defender of crime, one wonder, in their deire for fair-play, conult the victim before they upended capital punihment? hardly. you ee, they couldn’t becaue all the victim were dead.