I feel that anyone advocating, whatever their tragic grievance, capital punishment, ought to be shot, albeit metaphorically.

Never a day goes past without my being revolted by the fact that society allows to live those who, with total legal impunity, have put me and others through previously unimaginable hell and all but ruined our lives in the name of commerce and medicine.

In my more rational moments, though, I acknowledge that such sentiments are totally unethical and unrealistic.

DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford