By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-24 09:02:36 | Updated at 2025-01-24 17:27:14
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Reform UK MPs have ramped up calls for a debate around the death penalty after Southport's remorseless killer Axel Rudakubana was handed an "unduly lenient" 52-year-sentence.
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, Boston & Skegness MP Richard Tice and Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe all demanded a conversation about the reintroduction of capital punishment.
Sharing an image of a hangman's noose, Anderson said: "This is what is required."
Tice added: "I don’t think we should be afraid of having a national debate on important big issues like this. I think that many people in the country would like at least a debate."
Lowe also claimed that it was now "time for a national debate" on the use of capital punishment "in exceptional circumstances".
The death penalty was only officially abolished in Britain in 1998.
However, Peter Anthony and Gwynne Owen Evans were the last people executed in the UK back in 1964.
Following Rudakubana's sentencing yesterday, a petition was launched on the Houses of Parliament website demanding the abolition of whole life orders and reintroduction of the death penalty.
Judge Mr Justice Goose was unable to hand Rudakubana a whole life order because he was just nine days away from turning 18 at the time of the horrific attack last July.
Southport’s Labour MP Patrick Hurley said the 52-year sentence was “not severe enough” and asked Attorney General to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”.
Attorney General Lord Hermer and Solicitor General Lucy Rigby have 28 days to decide whether to refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal.
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