The Star: July 09, 2020

The Star Thursday July 9 2020
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Death penalty ‘a must
if justice is to prevail’
• From page 1
“Since March 15, until writing
this statement, my heart is
yearning for restoration of justice
to the victims of the heinous
massacre, and a call for the death
penalty for the brutal and conscienceless
criminal.
“Crimes like the one committed
on March 15, are so heinous
and inherently wrong that they
demand the death penalty to
deter such heinous crimes in the
future, and to keep the society
safe.
“The death penalty for the most
heinous murders and the most
brutal and conscienceless murderers,
such as the terror attack
on March 15, is a must if justice is
to prevail.
“To sentence killers like (the
terrorist), would fail to do justice,
because the penalty – presumably
a long period in prison – would
be grossly disproportionate to the
heinousness of the crime.”
Dr Alayan said he understood
New Zealand’s law did not have
capital punishment, so in lieu
of death, he would call on the
judge to sentence the terrorist to
life-long imprisonment without
parole, and immediate deportation
to Australia, where he was
from.
“Such a criminal should not
live for a second in the land of
love and compassion, and the
loving and caring Kiwis should
not pay for his imprisonment.
“For the future, I call upon
my Kiwi brothers and sisters
to restore the death penalty in
New Zealand law, to deter such
heinous crimes in the future and
to keep society safe.”
Capital punishment in NZ
• Walter Bolton,
was the last person
executed in New
Zealand, on February
18, 1957. He was
convicted of poisoning
his wife Beatrice. He
was hanged for her
murder at Mt Eden
Prison.
• 85 people were
executed under New Zealand’s
capital punishment system
while it was in force. An
additional five people were
Walter Bolton
executed under
military regulations
in World War I.
• Capital
punishment was
retained for treason
until the Abolition
of the Death Penalty
Act in 1989. In
times of perceived
increases in violent
crime or when there has been
a particularly high profile
murder, the debate about
tougher punishment comes up.
The terrorist pleaded guilty
to 51 charges of murder, 40 of
attempted murder and one under
the Terrorism Suppression Act, in
the High Court at Christchurch
earlier this year.
• Editorial page 15
• HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you
think capital punishment
should be reintroduced?
Email your views to
barry@starmedia.kiwi
Mosque paramedic
develops app
• By Jess Gibson
A PARAMEDIC who
was on the frontline for
two of Christchurch’s
biggest tragedies is using
his experience to help
first responders during
mass casualty incidents.
St John intensive care
medic Dean Brown was one
of the first on the scene at the
collapse of the CTV building
in 2011, as well as the Al Noor
Mosque shootings on March 15
last year.
He said the events emphasised
New Zealand’s ongoing problems
with providing real-time
information to agencies from the
scene of mass incidents.
“At the moment there is a real
gap in that information. We’ll go
in, we’ll triage how many patients
we can see and how sick [they]
are, we’ll notify our comms centre
by radio and that’s generally
where the information stops.”
In an attempt to eradicate those
issues, he is developing an app
named “Triage Plus,” focused on
providing patient details to agencies
as they happen.
He said a similar system would
have made a “huge difference”
during the 2011 earthquake and
the mosque attack.
Dean Brown
“All the agencies
involved would have
had a very clear picture
straight away. It [would]
help them provide an
appropriate response and
resources to it.”
Mr Brown’s idea has
seen him chosen as one of
nine finalists up for TSB
Good Stuff People’s Choice awards.
The winner will receive up to
$30,000, which Mr Brown said
would enable him and others
working on the app to complete
the project quicker.
Mr Brown said the app will be
ready for trials next month.
“We’re going to be running
feasibility trials to clarify what we
think it will do inaccurately and
we will be doing that using 200
patients. The first version of the
app will be available in August
and we’re going to run the trials in
September. Then we will look to
refine the app using feedback from
the trials and move from there.”
To view all of the award finalists’
ideas and vote for your favourite,
visit: https://tsbgoodstuff.
co.nz/peoples-choice/.
Voting closes at noon on July
10 and the full list of TSB Good
Stuff grant winners will be
announced early August.
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