'not because it was the popular thing to do, but because it was right.'

Yes Graham and it is wrong to slaughter the unborn in the womb despite the convenience and popularity among feminist.

I can give you are fair idea, Is Mise.

In the last three decades of the death penalty in Australia, no innocent criminal was put to death. But I can name five women who would have lived if four abductor/ rapist/ murderers had been hanged.

Daniel Miles was convicted of the murder of Yolande Michael while on the run from a NSW prison. He had escaped from prison where he was serving time for the murder of 16 year old Donna Newland.

In the mid sixties, Leonard Keith Lawson was released from prison after abducting and murdering a 15 year old girl. While on parole he raped and murdered 15 year old Mary Jane Bower at Collaroy, in Sydney. With the police looking for him, he entered SCEGGS girls school in Bowral, and attempted to abduct a schoolgirl. In the struggle with a heroic teacher, he fired a sawn off rifle several times, wounding the female teacher and killing 15 year old Wendy Luscombe.

When Gordon Barry Hadlow was released from a Queensland prison after 22 years, for the rape and murder of a six year old girl, Samantha Dorothy Bacon, he then abducted, raped, and murdered a 9 year old girl, Sharon Margaret Hamilton.

Leigh Robinson was sentenced to death for the stabbing murder of 17 year old shop assistant Valerie Dunn on June 8, 1968, in Melbourne. His sentence was commuted to 30 years jail after a mercy plea was accepted by the Victorian State government of the day. Released after 15 years, he continued his war on our society with convictions for rape, sexual assault of two underage girls, breaking and entering, and theft. In 2008, Robinson murdered Tracey Greenbury, 32, after having an argument with her, and chasing the terrified woman down a street with a shotgun, before literally blowing most of her head off in front of an elderly female neighbour

I really cannot understand all the fuss about a few executions. If ever there is an example of the politicians and the media ignoring the will of the people, this is it. What chance do you think you would have getting on to ABC talkback and advocating their execution?

However, in a spirit of harmony, I would advocate an Australian solution.

I would suggest that as Australians, their case be dealt with under Rule 303.

A KILLER who was twice paroled and then killed for a third time today lost a battle for the right to appeal a life jail term for the murder of Raechel Betts.

Court of Appeal judge Justice Bernard Bongiorno ruled there is no reasonable prospect John Leslie Coombes would succeed in winning a minimum term on his life sentence.

Justice Bongiorno said that Coombes is nearly 57-years-old and his record as a triple murderer means he could not get a minimum term of less than 35 years, taking him well beyond any prospect of parole in his 90s.

Earlier this year Coombes pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to murdering 27-year-old Ms Betts. The court heard Coombes strangled the childcare worker and dismembered her body in a bathtub before throwing her remains off a pier.

In 1985 he was sentenced to life for the murder of a man named Henry Kells, but served only 11 years.

In 1998 he was sentenced to 15 years with a minimum of 10 for murdering Michael Speirani - a killing he committed nine months before the Kells murder.

In early 2007 he was again given parole.

Yes Lego, the only way to stop a murdered doing it again in Oz is to put them down

No matter how bad one is, a bunch of, parole board bleeding hearts, activists, & some physiologists/Psychiatrists giving their "expert" testimony will have the murderer out to strike again, & probably again.

Now if we made all those responsible for the release of murderers pay the price of the subsequent murders their stupidity leads to, I could almost accept it. At least that might get a few bleeding hearts out of the prisons.