[Closed] Bringing back the death penalty..

Hobnob?

i would vote yes for the death penalty.

We could have a national lottery, £1 per ticket, winner gets to pull the lever live on pay per view TV saturday prime time!

Remember chaps, its forward thinking like this that will get the economy moving again 😀

We could have a national lottery, £1 per ticket, winner gets to pull the lever live on pay per view TV saturday prime time!

Remember chaps, its forward thinking like this that will get the economy moving again

with the clause, that the executioner gets executed in the case of an unsafe conviction.

Klunk - Member
We could have a national lottery, £1 per ticket, winner gets to pull the lever live on pay per view TV saturday prime time!
Remember chaps, its forward thinking like this that will get the economy moving again

with the clause, that the executioner gets executed in the case of an unsafe conviction.

Klunk - wouldn't it be better to apply that clause to the Jury? 😉

all convictions will be final... total proof will be required.

say like a police confession ?

Klunk - Member
all convictions will be final... total proof will be required.
say like a police confession ?

So what about the people who are just a bit guilty, you know the ones that have definitely done it, but it can't be proved?

Yeah, because DNA and video evidence is so reliable.

Where's that pic of the guy trying to explain something then giving up with his head in his hands?

I would vote for the execution of foreign looking types, committed bachelors with a fondness for musical theatre, anyone with a suspiciously large nose, guardian readers and of course anyone speaking out against our new policy of execution.

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I have often wondered what it would be like to discuss the death penalty with a class of kindergarten children. Thanks guys, for clearing that up.

Not that one, it's an animated one.

i'd bring it back for intolerant and knee jerk reactionary types.

I think it all started going a bit pear shaped when we turned a blind eye to blasphemers. Saudi has the right idea.

IanMunro - Member
So what about the people who are just a bit guilty, you know the ones that have definitely done it, but it can't be proved

Explain to me why it would help?
Is it meant to prevent crimes, or just 'get even'?

Birmingham 6, Guildford 4, Stefan Kiszko, Stephen Downing. all Innocent, all would have been hung. Look 'em up

all convictions will be final... total proof will be required.

Yup - like in the cases above

Hang on now, no list of the truly evil is complete without Tom Cruise!

it should only be for people like Myra Hindley and Fred west etc the truly evil ones,

"Truly evil", eh?

So it's OK to kill someone whilst regretting it, then?

Corporal and capital punishments are symptoms of a violent society, not a cure for it.

So Ilovemygears - you are going to produce a new definition of " really nasty people who have been proven to be guilty really really obviously"?

Lets see some definition of this that would mean the people I mention above would not have been executed.

There will always be innocent people convicted. Would you be happy for your brother or your son to be executed on a miscarriage of justice?

Read upon Stephen Downing Its on wiki

brady
hindley
west
nielson
neilson (panther)
whiting
baby peters killers
soham bloke
mawdsley
ripper
crossbow bloke
bellfield
this list could go on and on if my memory was better

morgan

people that kill kids should die, horribly

Three_Fish - Member
Corporal and capital punishments are symptoms of a violent society, not a cure for it.

.. we are the most violent of animals.

Right - define that then.
How about people who kill kids by hitting them with their cars?
How about people that loose their temper and shake a kid and kill it?
How about the mother who has the baby in her bed and accidentaly rolls onto it and smothers it?
How about the parent with mental health difficulties who kills a child in despair?

I conclude that ILMG is impervious to rational argument and is capable only of repeating his shouty claims ad neauseum.

It is a waste of time casting pearls before this particular Gadarene.

I have often wondered what it would be like to discuss the death penalty with a class of kindergarten children.

The thing is, the death penalty is so [i]very [/i]final, and the problem with that finality is so [i]very [/i]apparent to everyone except the truly hard-of-thinking.

As there's little point in debating with the intellectual proletariat, because they just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience, it's far easier just to cut to the chase and openly mock people who hold ill-conceived radical opinions and beliefs. It's a tried and tested way of dealing with capital punishment supporters, pro-lifers, theists, readers of the Daily Mail, folk who start sentences with "I'm not racist, but..." and people who ride road bikes.

ilovemygears

Lets hear some answers?

Would you be happy for people to be executed for miscarriages of justice? your brother perhaps?

Where do you want to draw the lines?

Lets hear some answers

Ton's just saved the country about 350k a year. (If the 10 I counted are still inside that is.)

we have been her before, have we not?

Actually, I'm in favour of the death penalty for spammers, malware authors, and Internet trolls. Cougar for Prime Minister! Who's with me?

Don't get drawn in TJ, this is clearly fatuous.

Cougar - Member
I have often wondered what it would be like to discuss the death penalty with a class of kindergarten children.
The thing is, the death penalty is so very final, and the problem with that finality is so very apparent to everyone except the truly hard-of-thinking.

As there's little point in debating with the intellectual proletariat, because they just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience, it's far easier just to cut to the chase and openly mock people who hold ill-conceived radical opinions and beliefs. It's a tried and tested way of dealing with capital punishment supporters, pro-lifers, theists, readers of the Daily Mail, folk who start sentences with "I'm not racist, but..." and people who ride road bikes.

Would you be happy for people to be executed for miscarriages of justice? your brother perhaps?

Of course its fatuous hels

However Ilovemygears - do you have any answers to the questions I have asked? or actually are you just spouting a load of hot air over this?

If its a coherent argument than you must have answers to these questions.

I've voted for it, not because I think it will happen, indeed I'm sure it won't, but because as a trade-off it may result in life sentences that are longer than the current bad jokes.

Do you have children, if some one raped and killed one how would you feel, i expect the rights of the killer would be high on youre list!

Oh, I'd want to kill them, sure. But I wouldn't. Because it's the wrong thing to do. I'd really want to, a lot. But I couldn't live with the consequences if it later turned out I'd made a mistake.

Cougar - Member
Do you have children, if some one raped and killed one how would you feel, i expect the rights of the killer would be high on youre list!
Oh, I'd want to kill them, sure. But I wouldn't. Because it's the wrong thing to do. I'd really want to, a lot. But I couldn't live with the consequences if it later turned out I'd made a mistake.

Crossed posts - answer the question. Read up on Stephen downing..

Are you happy for innocent people to be executed - 'cos that is what will happen.

before we bring back the death penalty we could take a leaf out of this guys book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

How a prison should be- chain gangs, prisoners forced to wear pink underwear, living in tents etc