Although she was once a proponent of capital punishment, past President of the Court of Appeal Dame Joan Sawyer said she has not supported state-sanctioned execution for quite some time.
"As a teenager I was against it. As a young adult I was for it. As a mature adult I cannot subscribe to it," Dame Joan told The Nassau Guardian in an exclusive interview earlier this week. "The death penalty is a final decision on somebody's life. Our definition of murder is the deliberate taking of a human life without any excuse. So when a judge passes the death penalty, what is he doing?"
Asked if her opposition to the death penalty was a fundamental belief, Dame Joan said: "It i ...

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