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Bring back the death penalty?
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After watching a show there on the Discovery channel about 4 men who kidnapped a 16 yr old girl and held her for days and raped her, beat her, tortured her and then eventually took her to her burial spot..they beat her with a spade, she was then knocked out cold and they buried her alive, she died of severe injuries to the head and suffociation.
Now do you think the death penalty should be brought back into our society in the UK for extreme crimes?
Personally I think it should for certain crimes, like this one anyway. How could anyone do that to an innocent 16 year old girl? Ian Huntley is another.
I know I said in a previous post somewhere about no one having the right to take another human life but these men have no respect for the girl's life so why should someone have respect for them?
2 of the men got the death penalty, one got 25 years and the other got 30 years.
Now do you think the death penalty should be brought back into our society in the UK for extreme crimes?
Personally I think it should for certain crimes, like this one anyway. How could anyone do that to an innocent 16 year old girl? Ian Huntley is another.
I know I said in a previous post somewhere about no one having the right to take another human life but these men have no respect for the girl's life so why should someone have respect for them?
2 of the men got the death penalty, one got 25 years and the other got 30 years.
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I agree.
I believe the first time Huntley thought about that was when he was beaten up in prison.
People like him are only sad and show remorse because they were caught.
Hmmmm...anyone spot the hypocrisy?
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But we all do that at some point... me included.
My brain wakes up and says that two wrongs don't make a right, and that the legal system is about justice not revenge. My brain also realises that the legal system makes mistakes- if we still had the death penalty the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six would be dead.
My heart realises something even worse to do to them- keep them alive. There's a reason why Shipman and West killed themselves, and why Huntley and especially Brady have been trying for years. Living is harder for them than death, which is the easy way out of it all for them.
The death penalty should not be around, for two reasons. It's worse for the scum who do those things, and it's cheaper.
Capital punishment is about vengeance and appealing to primal human emotions.
Should the justice system REALLY seek to 'get revenge' on people?! I don't think it should.
Life imprisonment SHOULD mean life though.
Classical liberalism has a lot going for it, y'know:)
If anything happened to my children, & they caught the person involved, There is no way on earth that I am gonna just let them sit in a prison cell. I can only prey that I never have to be in a situation like this.
PEACE
Agree
the longer he will have to live in fear. the reprisals will never stop ...even when he's old.
you eats your custard and plum duff and start coughing up blood ...broken razor blades and powdered glass ...again and thats some of the screws! forc e the bastard to live ...despite the fact some of you believe prison to be some kind of adventure playground that we reward our criminals with.
you seriously cannot have a clue how bleak and miserable jail life is ...and thats when it's good. when it's bad ...fucking hell man ...you realy have no idea.
Again agree.
If you get a bad start in prison, provided it is prison we talking about not a juvenile detention sentance, then shit can get real bad.
I got stories through people that I'd rather eliminate from my mind.
Take the serial rapist in the south, he has had history for a lot of years which started off with petty crime, he now has also been charged and convicted of the latest rapes. I dont think people like him can be rehabillitated, so let him serve ex amount of years, but eventually have the death penalty. I wouldnt say let them get the death penalty straight away.
Depends on the crime, the severity of it and taking into account his previous crimes (if they were serious ones) then yes eventually they get the death penalty. But thats only if they have sufficient DNA to prove this person was responsible.
Bearing in mind that some prisoners are never released, the death penalty in those cases would not serve any practical purpose or prevent further offences.
For instance, everyone knows that Ian Brady or whatever his name is (Myra Hindley's partner in crime) will die in jail. No more danger to society from him. So would you support the death penalty for him now?
The majority are released though. If they will never be released and they have done serious crime like i mentioned then no let them stay where they are and serve their time. whilst they are in prison let them have some fear which they put their victims through.
the majority of people who end up in the dock are not criminal as such.
the likes of huntly and brady will never be allowed out ...or never should be allowed ...unfortunately our justice system isn't perfect and these decisions are made by those entrusted to act on our behalf.
look at brady ... since he was locked up he's lived in fear. he's been attacked numerous times and been damaged. the whole population inside and out are willing and in some cases waiting ...to kill him.
after numerous suicide attempts he has recently been on hunger strike ...with the sole intention of killing himself. WHY? he would rather die than go through another 24 hrs. those who want the death penalty are giving these people a way out. a back door. these weirdo's always end up trying to kill themselves because ...dying has to be better than the life imprisonment we have handed to them. huntly wants to die ...shipman pulled it off ...but yes ...some should and do die ...in a prison cell ...old broken and defeated. as it should be.
Sorry, I forgot, people with a sense of humour aren't welcome in Politics and Debate. *Doh*
now i have compassion for these cases, people who do this type of thing arent horrible scum. Obviously if they killed someone they pay for what they did but these people shouldnt behind bars for the rest of their life.
Those who commit crimes serious enough to warrant the death penalty WOULDN'T be released- I don't see Sutcliffe, Brady and West wondering the streets.
A sense of humour is fine. But that is the third time in as many days that he has posted that picture up, and it wasn't funny then either.
Oh, fair enough. That is the first time I had seen it.