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Needless to say the death penalty ghouls are out in force in the wake of the Lucy Letby verdict. Here's Ian Hislop on BBC QT destroying Patel about the death penalty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrsVhzbLzU
@jacqui76@mastodon.ieWhile #IanHislop is around I think we have a chance. He is so wonderfully good at destroying a terrible argument.
@jacqui76 His argument from his experience of miscarriages of justice through the years at Editor of Private Eye is important.
Patel on the other hand had nothing. The deterrence argument is obviously ridiculous - look at America.
He has done a great service to expose the faults in the justice system through his work in Private Eye.
Patel - really was clutching at straws especially when the audience laughed at her. She is a horrible human being.