tag:historicalrhyme.blog.co.uk,2009-11-13:/The musings of a historical writer trying to break into journalism.MokoFeed2009-11-13T00:55:44+01:00tag:historicalrhyme.blog.co.uk,2007-01-02:/2006/12/31/from_hell_hull_and_halifax~1499109/#c2475849LissaT2007-01-02T12:32:53+01:002007-01-02T12:32:53+01:00At last! Someone with sensible thoughts on the subject. I am actually against capital punishment on moral grounds, but I think that the pragmatic grounds hardly ever get a hearing. There is, as you say, absolutely no point in creating martyrs.