Bring back the death penalty for monsters like Southport killer, blast furious MPs
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HANGING should be brought back for monsters like Axel Rudakubana, MPs demanded tonight. Reform Party politicians said the horrifying nature of the Southport attack warranted the death penalty. Rupert Lowe said: “It is my opinion that now is the time for a national debate on the use of the death penalty in exceptional circumstances. This is an exceptional circumstance.”.
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His colleague Lee Anderson posted a picture of a hangman’s noose, saying “this is what is required”. And Reform's deputy Richard Tice said we should not "be afraid of having a national debate on important big issues like". The last person executed in Britain was in 1964, but the death penalty was not officially abolished until 1998.
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Rudakubana was today handed a minimum 52 years in prison, with the judge blocked by giving him a whole life order because he was 17 at the time of the murders. Read more on the tragedy. Kemi Badenoch tonight led calls for tougher laws so teenage monsters like him can die in jail.
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She urged a review of sentencing rules that currently let under-18s like the Southport beast dodge whole life tariffs. She said: “His age means he has not been given a whole life sentence, despite the countless lives he destroyed on that dreadful day, and the legacy of mistrust he has sown across the country.
“There is a strong case here for amending the law to give clear judicial discretion to award whole life sentences to under-u18s, which Conservatives will start to explore.”. She said her party will not shy away from confronting the "hard truths" of "integration" and "extreme ideologies".
