That's probably where we're headed. At least instill some fear into the law breakers and repeat offenders.

They are not afraid of death. The problem goes very deep into the family unit and lack of education. Open all the jails and kill all the criminals you want, but the problems shall persist until the core issues are addressed.

I concur

Bring it on!! Let 'em swing...could add a few politicians to that conga line!!

Good start .................... now get campaigning for 2017

It is time for some real action. The criminals have no fear. The politicians have no respect for the people. The church is a business. Crime and corruption are the norm. Illegal immigrants believe they run the show. This country has been run into the ground through greed and incompetence. Anything is better than what we have now!

That is the most untrue statement "anything is better than what we have now", however I would love to see a new government, or less of one. Branville will add taxes up the arse to add more jails and keep the town on curfew lockdown. Really, listen to his words carefully when he speaks of crime fighting. Don't be desperate in agreeing because he is the only "other voice".

Really! Let em swing! Now you gat my vote.

Bran you gotta learn pump it, for all it got's.
There's no denying that whenever the PLP or FNM are grabbing the headlines, there pops mouth of the fledgling green party's leader, acting all jealous with his latest, let's just hang, jail and flog the backs of the citizens. Comrade Bran you need purpose and you had it in protesting higher BEC charges for electricity usage. But once again your ego couldn't resist adding a dose of unnecessary Bran style looking silly dramatics.
WATCH: Detroit water shutoffs of poor Comrades this remind you of BEC cutting off lights struggling pay they light bills while big shot business owners and politically connected, don't pay but they light either never get cut off or are quickly reconnected, after they make that call private
call phone number?

...........//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKeH_C3SB8

He needs to stop "talkin' fool" because as a lawyer he KNOWS nothing will happen as quickly as that. He's just another one telling the public what he thinks they want to hear.

Just Lost Any Chance Of My Vote....

Remember Bahamians, *Mouth Could Say Anything*. The Devil is in the details.

Ask him to explain exactly how he's going to do it. Ask him what are the big obstacles and how is he going to get around them.

A politician can not overrule the law and if they tamper with laws arbitrarily they will impact international confidence in our country. which you do not want...

Politicians continue to take Bahamians for fools because we fall for anything.

Agree a friend of mine asked Bran about the details of a plan that he'd proposed, to my friend's shock, Bran got angry. I suspect it was a cover for the fact that he didn't really know. Surface good looks, gender, brashness, intelligence, success, affability etc are **not** enough to select the next leader. That applies to all of the potentials, not just Bran. they MUST HAVE DEPTH or they will do a worse job than the current administration. They will be deep in a hole if we continue on our current track and they will make all the wrong moves to dig us deeper.

He will hike taxes and lock us in our homes after dark. His words...curfew coming if he is elected.

I am convinced the media is in the sole business of publishing total BS without keeping these people accountable for what they utter. It is not possible for the Prime Minister to "immediately" hang ANYONE convicted of murder and Branville must certainly know that, but perhaps the stuff shirt he is also knows that you can say almost anything to Bahamians once it sounds good and you sound good saying it, and they will believe it.

Served with a delicious snack at a fun rally.

They need to put nooses in court rooms. Guilty? Put your head in here son... it will be over soon. And don't bother asking 'GOD' for forgiveness. It's too late. Die and go to hell!

ditto!!!

But only you care. The criminal isn't scared of death. Then what?

We need more candidates and a Libertarian party.

No way could I support this man or his party if this is their mandate....I agree it is a childish soundbite aimed at stirring up support. If this is his solution to reducing crime he has no idea what the real cause is.

The capital punishment solution has always struck me as self-defeating: kill people in order to persuade people not to kill people? And there is no global evidence to show that it reduces violent crime. The most peaceful countries in the world do not have capital punishment.
The solution is complex but must surely include education (especially of young men), greater social cohesion, economic development and elimination of dugs and excessive drinking. But of course it's much easier (and a sure-fire vote catcher) to hang people.
No doubt Mr McCartney is on to a good thing.

Christopher Merrett
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (abolitionist state for 20 years)

Hanging may not reduce crime per se but it is guaranteed to reduce the number of criminals; which is what we can all agree with. We don't want criminals in our society. By removing them from the system we make room to put the next murderer or rapist. If we don't hang then we need to build more prisons to keep the next set or criminals in, which does not make sense to me. Even those people who believe in reform have to agree that not all criminals can be reformed, very few can be in fact. Isn't it crueler to keep those criminals in prison for the rest of their lives or would you like us to take the chance and let them out back into society and 'see what they do'!

No it is not guaranteed to reduce criminals. It is guaranteed to kill at least a few innocents, which is a fact. As long as the education system and family unit are as broken down as they are, and we allow more and more uneducated people to enter the country and abuse the "system" the crime will continue to rise.

Mr McCartney knows this can,t be done and also has no effect on violent crime , he is pandering to an under educated ,xenophopic , emotional public , if he really believes this that is even more frightening

Yes indeed!!!! Frightening is the word! He is a socialist cloaked in "change for the people".

U.S. have the electric chair and It hasn't stop people from killing.

And the amount of potential and later proven innocents the State kills is staggering, but I guess for many people it's worth killing so many who land on the wrong side of the law. Strange human behavior, all the killing.

Disappointing nonsense from Bran. He knows fine well that the legal world does not work like that. I thought he was better than those politicians who aim to seduce the ignorant and gullible masses with their false promises. Guess I was wrong.

This man has more arrogance than those combined of the three prime ministers of this nation. That is a very scary prospect!

All Branville ever say is what he thinks will get him some votes, not what he believes.

Is there any other kind of politician?

The PLP, FNM, DNA and any new comers simply need to replicate Singapore's laws, and our crime problems would be behind us in no time.

See Singapore's crime stat's:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-inf…

The biggest obstacle we face in following Singapore's model is the need to firstly eradicate gross systemic corruption with-in the government itself, which is so deeply engrained neither PLP or FNM could withstand the scrutiny of a Freedom Of Information Act...Thus we will never get one from the PLP or FNM.

Resolving the crime issue is simple. Cleaning up political corruption and sending guilty parties to jail is the hard part......Because SO MANY of them have been corrupt to the core for decades.

It is not the politician's fault for the breakdown in the family unit, which is the core problem here. However, the political employees we have hired are perpetuating a broken system indeed!