This is a very interesting article about the growing hostility of Jamaicans to the British Justice System with which it is entwined. The death penalty lies at the center of the disharmony, but as you'll see, it's Jamaica, not Britain, that wants to hold onto the archaic past.

The anatagonism began spreading after a Jamaican who was sentenced to death row for killing a policeman had his conviction overturned by Britain.

Poor, young and idle, Randall Dixon was one of the usual suspects when Det. Cpl. Phillip Gordon ended up dead in a chaotic firefight between four bank robbers and four policemen. Despite witness testimony that Dixon wasn't involved in the 1996 Western Union Bank robbery, he was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to die by hanging.

Dixon, now 37, has had his sentence struck down by the Privy Council in London on appeal because videotape from security cameras — suppressed by police for the last seven years — proved he wasn't there.

You would think the Jamaicans would be pleased that one of their own who turned out to be innocent was spared the ultimate penalty, right? Wrong.