“The manipulative tactics of the campaigners are designed to induce in the public a failure of nerve. They seek to undermine our faith in mercy, rehabilitation and the rule of law. They play on the misguided idea that the social breakdown underlying the Edlington crimes would be cured by a harsher criminal justice system. They are wrong. The Edlington case reveals a startling degree of neglect which demands society’s attention, not its knee-jerk vengeance.” — Justice, not Vengeance -Times Online
