Paul Cannell
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Rick Stein. Rick Stein!
Doesn't make you a bad person, but it makes me - and possibly others - question whether your aim would be to punish or to have your revenge.
Would you be willing to physically hang someone, or would you leave that to someone else? Is state execution justified on the basis of saving the state money?
What exceptions would there be to executing serial killers or child rapists? What if they were mentally ill and clinically unable to tell the difference between right and wrong?
Macho blood lust is, thankfully, not what a civilised society is built on.
I’m interested which way you think folk who remember the death penalty are more likely to vote.
I think the age range on here is pretty spread - I seem to remember a thread (might have been on the previous board) where people posted their ages. It might be informative to do that again.I would surmise that the generic on here is nearer young (folk who can`t remember the DP) rather than older.
McCann was released incorrectly through incompetence, not because he was considered rehabilitated. To compare this, in any way, to the Khan situation is inaccurate.
Just noticed this and can’t let such an ignorant comment go unchecked. Tyburn (or Bayswater Road for Oxford Tube users) was for hanging common criminals. If you wanted hanging drawing and quartering you needed to go to Smithfield as we saw in Braveheart.Yes, but being hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn isn't on the list of choices.
There is no real justification for execution of murderers.
However, I find it difficult to disagree with its use for war crimes. After the Second World War I think it was justifiable to consider its use for clear cases of crimes of humanity and also hard to present a case as to why certain guilty offenders deserve to live, As an example, Rudolph Hoess the commandant do Auschwitz whom was responsible for the deaths of many many people.
That said, so many criminals escaped any proper punishment for their horrific role in war crimes, because they were either not caught or claimed to have been acting under orders.
In modern day Britain, hanging has been abolished for over fifty years and I can’t see a justification for its reintroduction.
If a murderer is cornered by the police he will strike again if he thinks he will end up dead.
Many murders are committed within the family.
In the case of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged, the fallout after was awful. I think three members of her family committed suicide.
A wrongful execution cannot be reversed either. Timothy Evans springs to mind as do so many others.
Its now in the history books and best left there