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Capital Punishment.
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If a referendum was held on whether or not to reintroduce the death penalty, how would you vote?
What moral basis would dictate your choice?
What moral basis would dictate your choice?
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gollob - // Although Timothy Evans did not kill his wife and baby as John Christie did He nevertheless pleaded guilty .So what do you do then as he said it. //
History shows that Timothy Evans was not of sufficient mental capacity to understand what was happening to him.
In a modern justice system, his lack of proper faculties would have been identified and his conviction, had it got that far, would have been quashed as unsafe.
Of course, if you don't have capital punishment, a wrongful death like that of Timothy Evans would not occur, and that element of doubt alone makes execution a bad system of justice.
// To all the people who replied no to capital punishment would they say that Christie should not have hung. For goodness sake the bodies were everywhere like in the garden ,under the floorboards and in the walls . Do you honestly think people like that should not be taken out .If you say no there must be something a matter with you //
Yes I do say that, and no there, is nothing the matter with me - other than me taking a contrary position, which may indicate that status to you.
Murder is not the action of a sane person, even if that insanity lasts for the time one murder is committed, or as in the case of Christie, it lasts for a long period of time, and leads to several deaths.
Correct me if i am wrong, but the way your point is phrased indicates that you believe that Christie is somehow more deserving of death because of the number of victims he killed.
That sort of thinking can only be based on emotion, and the law cannot function on emotion, only on justice which must be evenly applied.
History shows that Timothy Evans was not of sufficient mental capacity to understand what was happening to him.
In a modern justice system, his lack of proper faculties would have been identified and his conviction, had it got that far, would have been quashed as unsafe.
Of course, if you don't have capital punishment, a wrongful death like that of Timothy Evans would not occur, and that element of doubt alone makes execution a bad system of justice.
// To all the people who replied no to capital punishment would they say that Christie should not have hung. For goodness sake the bodies were everywhere like in the garden ,under the floorboards and in the walls . Do you honestly think people like that should not be taken out .If you say no there must be something a matter with you //
Yes I do say that, and no there, is nothing the matter with me - other than me taking a contrary position, which may indicate that status to you.
Murder is not the action of a sane person, even if that insanity lasts for the time one murder is committed, or as in the case of Christie, it lasts for a long period of time, and leads to several deaths.
Correct me if i am wrong, but the way your point is phrased indicates that you believe that Christie is somehow more deserving of death because of the number of victims he killed.
That sort of thinking can only be based on emotion, and the law cannot function on emotion, only on justice which must be evenly applied.
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