I am writing this article in response to the ignorance that our country is experiencing and to send back in response to everyone who forwards a petition to get the death penalty back especially when they have no clue what the real problems are.

There are those who believe that killing one or two murderers might shock those murderers and/or rapists into stopping what they are doing pending the risks involved in such activity.  As much as this might be true its not exactly a measurable thing and we would never know if it ever really does solve the problem.

Let me shine some light on the real world for you for just a minute or two and please if you are one who believes that the death penalty needs to come back I think you may need to read through this thoroughly.

The country is experiencing some difficulties in some areas which are directly related to crime yes I do admit that, but the problem is not as simple as the public would wish to imagine.  The issues for most part are related to corruption, it plagues this country.  Now lets imagine for a second that Mr Mbeki took the time to take this silly petition which is going around seriously and the death penalty was enforced in South Africa.  Take a step back for one moment and imagine what has been created…

Can you see it?

The power to murder innocent people legally without question or prejudice!

See it now? Ok clearly I need to explain more.

In this country the public (that’s you) has access to government services (police officials) on levels where you should not have this access.  Hypothetically this means that should you dislike someone or better yet you had a means to gain from them passing.  In a situation like we have today with the death penalty in place you could have that person convicted of a crime, put on trial, and murdered by the state should you have enough persuasion (money).  Surely you see that as more of an injustice?

Please people look at what you are doing and think before you act out, we cannot afford to have the death penalty in place in South Africa until such time that the corruption is removed completely.