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"Mr President, earlier today Mr Pöttering made a statement on the World/European Day against the death penalty and said he rejected the death penalty ‘in any form’.
He seems to assume that we all agree with him. I do not. Last Sunday, just a mile from my home in London, an innocent boy of 17, Rizwan Darbar, was stabbed to death in West Ham Park because, it is reported, he attempted to stop a friend’s mobile phone from being stolen.
This is not an unusual occurrence in Britain. Innocent people are being shot, stabbed and beaten to death with increasing frequency. Why is this? It is because the thugs and criminals do not fear the law. Even if they are caught and convicted, they often receive very lenient sentences. Personally, I would like to see the reintroduction of the death penalty in Britain for perpetrators of these kinds of murders.
Of course this could not be done unless we were outside of the European Union, which is yet another good reason for leaving."@en1
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