Each assassin should have the right to a rope in his cell to make a decision about his or her life. So says Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate.
Speaking before a Tory caucus meeting today, l'Hon. M Boisvenu said he was against the death penalty, but... he is in favour of a "reflection" on the fate of serial killers and those without any hope of being rehabilitated.
M Boisvenu added that there are also economic issues at play. He referred specifically to the Shafias who were found guilty on Sunday of the honour killings of four female members of the family. (See previous posts for grisly details.) "Their incarceration will cost $10-million to the Canadian government," said the senator. "There is an economic problem there, it’s $10-million that won’t be spent elsewhere, that is being spent on criminals."
A better solution, Senator Boisvenu added, might be to send the Afghanistan-born Shafias back where they came from. "Returning them to their country might be a tougher sentence than to keep them here, where our prisons are a lot more comfortable."
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