Criminals on probation commit a murder every week, official figures show.
In the past two years, offenders under supervision have been convicted of 121 murders.
Meanwhile, 44 have been convicted of manslaughter, 103 of rape and 80 of kidnapping.
Now contrast these figures with the fruitless, desperate - and frequently dishonest - efforts made by abolitionists to find a single executed martyr in the two decades after World War Two.
One or two dodgy executions? Perhaps. Maybe. Deeply unlikely - and then only if you stretch the imagination to its very limits.
THE FIGURES ABOVE ARE REAL NOT THE PRODUCT OF LIBERAL IMAGINATIONS!