Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Tuesday

Death penalty D-Day - Parliamentarians in Jamaica to vote on hanging despite Opposition appeal

PARLIAMENTARIANS, ARMED with a made-up conscience, are today scheduled to hand down a verdict on whether to abolish or retain the death penalty in Jamaica. The decision is expected, despite a late appeal from Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller for a special date...

The following are reactions to the ongoing debate on the death penalty.

'Human rights convention does not prevent death penalty' - Executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Dr Santiago Canton, says Jamaica ratified the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights on July 19, 1978.

Fire destroys E10 cooling tower

A FIRE at Petrojam has forced Government to go searching for ethanol to drive its E10 project. The ethanol cooling tower was destroyed in the blaze, which took place at the state-owned oil refinery yesterday afternoon. Despite the snag, Energy Minister Clive Mullings said... ....

The hangman's fate

HAWKS and doves are lining up to vote today on whether persons convicted of capital murder should hang. After two postponements, the vote is scheduled to take place today in Gordon House and, unless something dramatic has occurred since last Wednesday's sitting of the House...

VOXPOP

Did you think that the pronouncements made by Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw on the economy are a true reflection of what Jamaicans should expect in light of the global financial crisis? ...

The following are reactions from the public to the ongoing debate on the death penalty.

Extraordinary circumstances needed - I say hang them, hang them and hang them high! I am not a supporter of hanging but the killing of children is extraordinary and that calls for extraordinary circumstances. "The above were the words of former Prime...