Text Box: IS THE DEATH PENALTY barbaric and ineffective to stop murders, robberies, rape and hijackings, as the Government and human rights lobbyists believe, or is it an effective, justified, natural cure for serious crimes as pro-execution campaigners assert? Editor of The Message and Independent News-Feature Service, YUSSUF NAZEER, presents the various arguments....you be the judge. THE DEATH SENTENCE

Is it Barbaric ....or a crime-cure?