I LOVE reading the letters page in The Bolton News, as well as the rest of the paper, and normally rant when a letter from Steve Jones has a letter printed. A rave normally at the wife and fresh air.

However, his letter on Wednesday, March 14, talks about the Conservatives trying to bring hanging back under Maggie Thatcher and John Major.

If I remember correctly, there was a supposedly free vote for MPs in Parliament under Maggie Thatcher.

She was against hanging and made her feelings very public, so that her fellow Conservatives would have an idea of just what their leader wanted them to do.

The vote went against bringing hanging back, mainly because our MPs decided not to vote the way the public wanted — 70 per cent of the population wanted hanging to be on the statute books.

Instead they voted with their consciences. So because they didn’t want hanging, to hell with what the people who put them there wanted!

So I think you were wrong, Mr Jones, by saying the Conservatives under Maggie wanted to bring hanging back.

Personally, I would say let’s have the American system of fatal injection.

Desmond Magurk Bolton