SIR Desmond Swayne has backed calls for the death penalty to be used on Axel Rudakubana.
The MP for New Forest West said we “devalue human life by our refusal to punish those who take it, with death”.
Rudakubana was jailed for 52 years for the horrific murder of three girls in Southport last summer and attempted murder of 10 others.
Sir Desmond said he receives “several dozens” of emails every time a child murderer “fills the news” demanding the restoration of the death penalty.
The death penalty was only fully abolished for all crimes in the UK in 1998, but the last people executed were Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans in 1964.
The death penalty for murder was formally abolished in Britain in 1969.
Sir Desmond said: “I have voted for the return of the death penalty on the three occasions that the opportunity has presented itself during my parliamentary career.
“Alas, I was always in the minority - and by a wide margin.”
The 68-year-old added: “Whatever the level of public support, the reality is that there is just no parliamentary majority for it.
“Even if we did restore it, a significant minority would remain viscerally opposed and every death sentence would be the focus of public protests.
“It might also be more difficult to secure convictions for capital offences as jurors contemplate the finality of a guilty verdict.
“Whatever the argument, one way or another, it certainly won’t happen in this Parliament.”
Ministers have no plans to bring back capital punishment, Downing Street said, citing Parliament consistently voting against it being restored in recent decades.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Rudakubana should have been given a longer sentence, but drew short of calling for a return of the death penalty.
Asked about the death penalty, she said: “I personally don’t think that would solve things… I don’t think that’s the way we should go.”
Downing Street’s spokesman said: “The Government has no plans to bring back capital punishment.
“Parliament abolished the death penalty more than 50 years ago, and in free votes has consistently voted against it being restored in recent decades.
“In 1998, Parliament made clear in a free vote that it was opposed to the death penalty for all offences.”
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