The murders of Cambridgeshire's Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells demonstrated the need to make changes in the law
							A return to state execution would rule out the chance of rehabilitating offenders. Society would be admitting defeat

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Ann Widdecombe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I am not interested in retribution, I'm interested in saving life. Now if you can save life by having a death penalty... then I would maintain that there is an argument to be made."

A time of high emotion is not the time to change the law. Even Miss Widdecombe admitted: "The miscarriage of justice is the single strongest argument against it." Juries would be less willing to find a defendant guilty if they knew he would be executed.

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