What if execution required the full court of the (a) court of appeal to agree and the attorney general to sign off on it, and for their part an independent analysis of the facts to the effect that it isn’t merely ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ or that one is ‘sure’ within the English terminology but rather ‘certain’.

Anders Breivik, for example, was on film shooting children with an automatic rifle. He definitely, definitely did it. As did the fellow in New Zealand.

Both cases deserve death, in my opinion. That is the just deserts. The New Zealand Court took several steps to secure that man’s permanent imprisonment. There is no chance those people could’ve been wrongfully convicted.

It’s not a question of recidivism, to me it’s about reducing to near zero the prospect of a wrongful conviction (like those examples) and punishing the most heinous of crimes appropriately.