Our nation's justice system is in need of reform when children are being imprisoned and corporations are getting away with robbery, writes Bert Hetebry . AS I RECALL, the opening scene of the 2005 movie Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman sees a woman who had been executed, hanged, removed from the hangman’s rope and prepared for burial. The care, the gentleness of that scene belies the violence of the death which had been ordered as punishment for murder.
When asked why such care was taken with the body and how it was dignified and shown such respect, the hangman, Albert Pierrepoint (played by Timothy Spall ) explained that the punishment had been carried out and justice had been served. As such, the woman’s dignity for the burial is restored. Justice: is it “an eye for an eye” as explained in the book of Exodus : ‘But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
’ 'Adult Crime, Adult Time' in Queensland: LNP direct their anger toward children An increasingly malevolent LNP, clutching desperately for power in Queensland, take their stereotypical “law and order” campaign a jackbooted step further to now target vulnerable children. Or is justice served as we find in the book of Matthew : ‘You have heard that it was said, “Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth”. But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.
If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn .
