Bring back Hanging

[longjohn]

Did you/do you agree & support the execution of the former President of Iraq a few years ago. Personally I was disgusted by it

I have to say I felt sorry for him in the end. I know he was a total bas tard to his people but so are many of the leaders in that area of the world and he never did have any WMD.

[ron]

I have to say I felt sorry for him in the end. I know he was a total bas tard to his people but so are many of the leaders in that area of the world and he never did have any WMD.

I wonder if the silly sod wished he hadn't pretended there were towards the end?

[Tim the plumber]

Crucifixion very rarely used nails (of course there is an obvious example where it did happen). They just used to tie them up, so that things would last longer.

I'm not convinced of that. The one example of a crucifiction nail we have, still embeded in the person's feet and the wood, shows a traditional square nasty rought nail which would have been re-used often. A big part of the agony was the fact that the nail through your feet would slowly rise up towards your ankle. They sometimes had several people on the same cross and probably often shared nails as well.

Besides we have the resources to do a proper job these days!

[alycidond9009]

I have to say I felt sorry for him in the end. I know he was a total bas tard to his people but so are many of the leaders in that area of the world and he never did have any WMD.

The point is there were on average fewer people killed every day under Sadam, than Today....

[medrussia]

The point is there were on average fewer people killed every day under Sadam, than Today....

So true, do the people of Iraq give thanks to the nations of intervention? Do the leaders of the free world find it Glorious that those they whored us too are then butchered?

[longjohn]

If I trusted the competence and the integrity of the state a little more, I would say bring back hanging immediately; I am sure a convincing case can be made for it. However, the one thing that can prove insurmountable in such arguments is the current inadequacy of the organs of state such as the police and the CPS. The death penalty should never have been done away with , though.

And equating execution by the state after due process of law with the crime committed by the murderer is just childish.

Talking about organs, I have always felt that hung people could be a good source of body parts and could save a lot of lives. If we need 100 hearts for transplants, hang 100 criminals. Some of them would perhaps prefer to be put out for an operation than being hung. It can go wrong sometimes.

[Red Rackham]

Wrong. The population since the abolition until relatively recently was something like 3/4 in favour. Didn't stop themkeeping the law abolishing it. It is precisely because of their caution and nervousness over certain issues and the consensus over certain social policy that CP was not reintroduced. I think it impossible to bring back, there'll never be the political will.

It would seem (If the polls are to be believed) that the majority want the death penalty restored. Roughly 50% are in favour, rising to 60% when a police officer or child is murdered. Despite it rating high on public opinion polls, it was last debated in Parliament in 1998 during the passage of the Human Rights Act and rejected by 158 votes, which means the majority of the public want the restoration of the death penalty, the majority of MPs do not!

The UK, a shining beacon of democracy!

[longjohn]

It would seem (If the polls are to be believed) that the majority want the death penalty restored. Roughly 50% are in favour, rising to 60% when a police officer or child is murdered. Despite it rating high on public opinion polls, it was last debated in Parliament in 1998 during the passage of the Human Rights Act and rejected by 158 votes, which means the majority of the public want the restoration of the death penalty, the majority of MPs do not!

The UK, a shining beacon of democracy!

I actually carried out a survey a few years ago in Cambridgeshire and out of 500 people 73% wanted to bring back hanging.

[SDP]

Bring Back Hanging (A Personal View)

The death penalty is illegal in Britain. It is illegal because we are members of the European Union. But it is my personal view that without the death penalty the sovereignty of each country will be gradually eroded away to nothing in the end.

The county is saying that whatever a criminal does, however evil, he will not receive the ultimate punishment. I believe that this will ultimately mean that the criminals will win.

[SDP]

If we had said to Adolf Hitler that all he faced was a gentle slap on the wrist, then we would never have won the war. It was only the determined threat to completely destroy Germany from the face of he earth, that led to our victory. Anything less would not have been enough to defeat the Nazi monster.