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THE clamour for the death penalty is deafening.

Some 99 per cent of 100,000 voters in our poll demand its return.

Such an overwhelming response is no surprise after the killings of Garry Newlove, Sally Anne Bowman and the five Suffolk Strangler victims. Not to mention the anarchy that has erupted in some parts of Britain.

Death penalty: Your verdict

ALMOST 100,000 Sun readers unite today to call for the return of the death penalty.

Monster Mark Dixie, Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright and the teenage killers of hero dad Garry Newlove have sickened the nation in recent weeks as details emerged of their vile crimes.

All received jail sentences. But as the clamour grew for the return of capital punishment, The Sun on Saturday dared to ask the burning question: “Do we really want it back?”

From Sister Helen Prejean, Founder
Welcome to The Moratorium Campaign.
Ever since my first book, Dead Man Walking, was published I have been traveling across the country giving talks, helping people to see through the illusions of the death penalty and call for its termination. Every talk I give ends with an invitation for citizens to sign a petition calling for a moratorium on government killings, and people have signed, in the hundreds of thousands.

By WILLIAM GLABERSON

WASHINGTON — Military prosecutors filed capital charges against a former senior leader of Al Qaeda   and five other Guantánamo detainees on Monday for their roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, but the possible obstacles facing a death penalty case in the Bush administration’s military commission system were immediately apparent.