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  Hold on a second....
  
  Who has said that corporal punishment should be anything but a last resort. 20 years ago Clive Hyde when head at Barton used the cane sparringly, usually in cases of bullying. Just that rare instance of caning kept the lid on problems in what was and is a tough school. He warned me, when caning was abolished a couple of years before he retired, that school discipline would get worse and he was totally tight.
  
  What is important is that it is available for use when necessary.
  
  As for capital punishment, well we will never agree on that one. I would rather a hundred murderers and drug dealers get hung than one decent child get stabbed to death. With modern DNA evidence and a careful review of the evidence as a final part of the appeal process I believe that you can avoid hanging the innocent. My idea would be that the sentence would be commuted to life (meaning life behind bars) in cases where the evidence did not match a very high level. We can learn from some of the mistakes of the past. Once again I believe that just a very few hangings would yield a benefit that would out of proportion and many young lives would be saved.

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