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ChatterBank0 min ago
The Americans have just carried out the 1000th execution since 1976, should we also bring back capital punisment for killers (all murderers, not just for killing a Police Officer)
Im going to stir up a hornets nest and say yes we should
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We cant use America as an example, they have the right to possess arms, it's written into the Constitution, and they are far too freely available, I know, I was in New York a couple of years ago and could have bought one over the counter in WallMart (Asda in UK).
We do not have that right, therfore weapons are not as prevelant as they are over there, so in my opinion if someone carries a weapon here, then they intend to use it. The deterent is to bring back hanging
Ok johnlambert, what would you suggest?
Beheading / guillotine
Burning at the stake
Hanging
Hung, drawn & quartered
Firing Squad
The Press
Gas Chamber
Electric chair
Lethal injection
?
Take your pick, which one lends itself to the most civilised society? Which would you prefer to be used? If you like I can give you a detailed account of each method and what happens to the prisoner from the night before and morning of their execution, right through to the moment where their lives are terminated.
Would you like to volunteer to be an executioner or just a spectator, how about you get to choose which condemned person gets which form? Maybe you could decide when you are sitting on jury service? Or is it something that you would prefer went on behind closed doors and didn't need to know about the details...?
NO - Capital punishment is barbaric.
You cannot possibly say if 100% sure because that means the other people who have been convicted should walk free as there is doubt in their particular conviction.
Life should mean life - in the jail.
I have said before - capital punishment is the easy option because the bast*rds who commit atrocious crimes end up trying to do away with themselves as the the thought of life rotting in jail is worse.Let them rot.Let the warders turn a blind eye when they get slashed.Let them be segregated.Let them be afraid to bend down in the shower.Let them realise that this is THEIR life until they expire
Little wonder Shipman West and the rest took the soft option themselves.Huntley Brady Sutcliffe and more have tried.Good - let them go slowly insane.
I agree with metagirl ie (not verbatum) the executioner is taking a life also.I hesitated to use this metaphor as I could potentially unjustly say that that is what our soldiers potentially do.
The difference being that the executioner coldly does the business and it is not a gut reaction ( its them or me) type of situation like a soldier.
BTW Big up to our soldiers who across the world are fighting sometimes a futile war and love to their families at this family time:)
Going back to a comment that was made regarding the execution - hanging of that unfortunate Australian in Singapore today.
I agree that the threat of an automatic sentence of death for certain, well defined, drug offences would be a deterrent because it is so extreme and those who would be sucked into the trade may think twice, but isn't it interesting that the threat of a death sentence for potential murderers, isn't?
I would vote for capital punishment only if the volunteer (and there are always lots of people ready to say they would pull the proverbial trigger) to carry out the punishment would accept the same fate if subsequent to the execution there was reasonable doubt about the safety of the original conviction.
Trotbot
This doesnt work and I suspect you know this.
You are either Guilty or Not Guilty in our judicial system.
There can be no half measures.
You cant have doubt after the event.
I daresay if someone took one of mine away my maternal animalistic reaction would be let me at them and I'll show them pain and suffering.In the cold light of day I would want them banged up for the last of their days with no mercy and believe me there are ways and mean round making a persons life a misery in the jail.