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Guilty Until Proven

Five children, raped, tortured, murdered and buried on a bleak and desolute moor Sentenced to whole life sentences were the perpertrators before they closed the door Two police women lured into a trap and executed with a hand grenade cast Another evil person locked away forever but he will not be the last Hanging was abolished in the UK due to doubt over the guilt of two or three Now evil people who kill are locked up forever in a relative life of luxury With there pool tables, hot showers, three meals a day and colour TV Not to mention an opportunity to study and obtain a degree It cost eighty thousand pound per year to keep one prisoner in the lockery Eighty thousand pound multiplied by the rest of there life, nothing short of a mockery For the guilty proven guilty without doubt, makes me want to shout To bring back state execution and use the money towards good Only then will the boil cool within my blood Eighty thousand pound per year multiplied by thousands of people who kill Enough to make anyones blood boil or bring to the spine a chill Hospitals, schools, the hungry, elderly, homeless and those in pain To benefit from the cost of keeping the guilty from the rain Money misspent and the guilty do not worry about paying the rent

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