Special adviser against hanging

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Verna St Rose-Greaves, who has been named special adviser on children’s affairs to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is against the People’s Partnership’s current moves to return to the hangman, saying she will not compromise on her views that capital and corporal punishment have no place in a civilised society.“I am not going to change my opinion on this. Nor am I prepared to be silent on it,” St Rose-Greaves told the Express.“We cannot say that we are moving forward as a nation, but then we go back to barbaric practices like hangings and beating children in schools. Then, in fact, we are regressing.”St Rose-Greaves’ comment come as some of her political colleagues have touted a return to the hangman – and the whip in schools – as being the most effective balm to immediate and long-term solutions to crime.(Trinidad Express)