Nia Glassie

If ever I was to support the Death Penalty it would be for this.

Nia Glassie was a 3 year old girl who was tortured to death by her family.

(from NZ Herald) A child witness saw Nia Glassie "slam dunked on the ground", choked and put in a hot tumble dryer until her head bleed, the trial into the three-year-old's death heard today.

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People in New Zealand are angry about this, especially since this is not the first time it has happened, indeed there seems to be a very high rate of child murder in New Zealand compared to international averages. Maori in particular seem over-represented in these statistics.

The Death Penalty is an emotional response to crime by the state, yet the state should not be emotional, it should be objective.

Can the Death Penalty be issued in a dispassionate way? I think the death penalty in its very nature is an passionate response.

My emotional response as I write this would be to kill the bastards that did this to little 3 year old Nia Glassie.

If the Judge and Jury and the legal system itself were to be emotional in its judgements upon criminals, I would argue that some crimes (depending on the circumstances and context) would resonate more emotionally with some people and not so much with others resulting in an imbalance where sentences may be handed out unevenly.

At the end of the day, it is an imperfect legal system where this crime may be thrown in the "murder" basket when it is in fact, so much more than just "murder".

Muzzerino.