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At last a sentence to fit the crime, he will be 75 years old before he is released.
Yesterday Tia's father said that, whatever jail sentence this monster received, he should be hanged at the end of it.
Does anyone agree?
At last a sentence to fit the crime, he will be 75 years old before he is released.
Yesterday Tia's father said that, whatever jail sentence this monster received, he should be hanged at the end of it.
Does anyone agree?
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Why? Because it was a child? Because there was a sexual element?
I agree it's emotional - But justice isn't emotional
You can't have the scales of justice blown about by the vagaries of public opinion.
You might as well hand the keys of the Old Bailey to the Newspaper men!
Go the whole hog and pass sentence by phone vote.
Sentences must be proportionate to other sentences, to other crimes, to the severity of the crime.
Not decided by how well the media whips up emotions in a particular case
I agree it's emotional - But justice isn't emotional
You can't have the scales of justice blown about by the vagaries of public opinion.
You might as well hand the keys of the Old Bailey to the Newspaper men!
Go the whole hog and pass sentence by phone vote.
Sentences must be proportionate to other sentences, to other crimes, to the severity of the crime.
Not decided by how well the media whips up emotions in a particular case
/people who uphold the rights of someone like Hazell to live and breathe. /
clearly you find this very difficult to understand askyourgran
it has nothing to do with hazell's 'rights'
i'll make it as simple as i can:
either you think killing is wrong (and hazell should be condemned) or you don't
you seem ambiguous about killing being wrong
clearly you find this very difficult to understand askyourgran
it has nothing to do with hazell's 'rights'
i'll make it as simple as i can:
either you think killing is wrong (and hazell should be condemned) or you don't
you seem ambiguous about killing being wrong
askyourgran - "I do have a sense of distate for people who uphold the rights of someone like Hazell to live and breathe."
It's not about Hazel's rights - in fact, its precisely the opposite, it is about removing Hazell's rights - the rights to movement, choice of food, exercise time, when to bathe, when to sleep, where to sleep, when to work, what to do all day, what to wear - the list goes on.
What I am continually banging on about is that murdering a murderer is not right - there are punishments in place that exact a penalty without decending into howls of self-righteous lynching which only demean and reduce our civilised society to the savages we have to incarcerate.
Just because you feel your moral outrage at the dreadfulness of this crime - or any other, gives you the right to kill someone because you think it wilake you feel better is a pretty poor way to organise rules that have to fit an entire society - not just the moral mouth-frothers who think that disgust and anger and anguish are their exclusive rights to feel.
It's about being a civilised society and reaching descicions that everyone can live with - difficult, but done the best way possible.
It's not about Hazel's rights - in fact, its precisely the opposite, it is about removing Hazell's rights - the rights to movement, choice of food, exercise time, when to bathe, when to sleep, where to sleep, when to work, what to do all day, what to wear - the list goes on.
What I am continually banging on about is that murdering a murderer is not right - there are punishments in place that exact a penalty without decending into howls of self-righteous lynching which only demean and reduce our civilised society to the savages we have to incarcerate.
Just because you feel your moral outrage at the dreadfulness of this crime - or any other, gives you the right to kill someone because you think it wilake you feel better is a pretty poor way to organise rules that have to fit an entire society - not just the moral mouth-frothers who think that disgust and anger and anguish are their exclusive rights to feel.
It's about being a civilised society and reaching descicions that everyone can live with - difficult, but done the best way possible.
@Em - but the point is that they have turned away from it - and of those who still use it, the list does not read like a list of especially enlightened or civilised countries.Even in the US, the use of capital punishment is declining or being actively abolished on a state by state basis.
Those calling for state sanctioned execution are asking the state to kill in our name, and thats not what I want. It degrades those people having to do it, and I believe it degrades those societies that use it.
Those calling for state sanctioned execution are asking the state to kill in our name, and thats not what I want. It degrades those people having to do it, and I believe it degrades those societies that use it.
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