Jamaica wants to bring back hangingBy Oliver Burkeman in Kingston,December 24 2002 The Jamaican Government, facing a big rise in the number of murders, has proposed a constitutional amendment to bring back hanging, ending the decades-old arrangement whereby judges in London have the final say on the island's most serious crimes. The proposed amendment by the Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, has prompted fierce debate in Kingston, the Caribbean murder capital, pitting human rights activists against those who see the status quo as a colonial hangover. "The Jamaican people are substantially agreed on the need to resume the death penalty," Mr...