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Michael Portillo - Death Penalty
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Did anyone watch Horizon last night? Michael Portillo was looking for the perfect way to kill a human, that didn't cause suffering. The way he found was actually quite good, but it didn't surprise me one bit that the pro death penalty lot wanted nothing to do with it. Just reinforced my opinion that the pro death penalty lobby are driven far more by anger and a lust for revenge than any genuine desire to reduce crime and make it a safer world.
Here's a link to the programme.
And a seperate note, I wouldn't mind a go of that method of execution, without actually going all the way of course.
Here's a link to the programme.
And a seperate note, I wouldn't mind a go of that method of execution, without actually going all the way of course.
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that dude at the end did it for me, saying it wouldnt be fair on the the victims of the prisoner if was painless.
absolute fruit loops
I wondered whether something like that could be used in the countries where euthanasia isnt illegal.
I have a similar opinion actually, maybe not made to actually end someone's life but at least research it properly or go and watch it happen.
It was the same as the gas chamber, but the room was filled with nitrogen, rather than cyanide (which causes immense pain if the prisoner doesn't cooperate - something shown to be impossible on the programme). Putting the body in an airless room causes cardiac arrest, which is extremely painful, whereas replacing oxygen with nitrogen effectively makes them feel high before they blackout and die. Portillo had a big grin on his face, it was funny (they didn't go all the way unfortunately
Yeah, it was amazing when they were saying "put the mask on or you'll die, you will die, put it on" or whatever they were asking him to do, and he just had this big grin like he didn't care if he died or not.
I'm not a supporter of the death penalty - but that always seemed skewed logic to me. It's like saying if you support the woman's right to choose you should perform an abortion or if you eat meat you ought to go and work in an abbatoir...
Iran execute teenagers in public and people watch. Thousands watched the last public hanging in the US.
And millions of people watched Saddam's execution, hanging might be illegal here but right now people will be watching it on youtube...
I think watching it on the computer is different to seeing it live though. I could sit and watch someone be stabbed to death in a film but if I saw that in front of me I'd probably be sick.
Aha, cheers. Sounds like he enjoyed himself, shame they didn't offer him a tangerine :rolleyes:
It would be available on youtube within minutes
No, thats not what I was saying at all.
I was saying you should at least research it properly so that you actually know what you are supporting...or go and watch it happen (granted maybe I should have left that last bit out).
It used to be a great day out for all the family in this country. Hawkers and traders would set up stalls, you could buy food and drink, copies of the short plays or books which regaled the reader with morality tales of why the person was on the rope. And if you were really lucky the condemed man would either make a good final speech (expressing remorse or damning his jailers and the judge) followed by the hangman making a bodge - (which always improved the mood of the crowd)
The human race is a very sick one.
"SHE did.....he did, him, him, it was him."
"Are there any women here today?"
They probably did something quite sick to deserve that themselves though.
Exactly.
Is that accurate? It seems based on the execution of pirates who were hung (to death), before being left out (I can't remember for how may tides). I'm 99% sure that the British never used drowning a punishment.
Or a protestant (mainly Protestant for heresy)- but they wouldn't be drowned. They would be hung, drawn and quartered for treason or in a few cases decapitated. For witchcraft, infacticide or heresy (under Bloody Mary for example) they were likely to be burned (though in later years the accussed would have gunpowder hung round their neck to ensure a quicker - if more messy - end).
Being a Catholic is "sick"!
Instead of finding a perfect way of killing someone, Portillo should've spent time lobbying those cunts about how barbaric it is in the first place.
Can't even remember the name of the pub but I've been to it many years ago.
Obviously I wasn't serious.
Which? I can't imagine seeing someone burn to death would be a pleasant sight. The smell of burning hair is bad enough let alone the smell of burning flesh.