I heard about Ian Huntley's suicide attempt today and thought, well if he wants to kill himself it would save we taxpayers having to pay for his residence in prison. Shouldn't we just let people like that get on with it if they want to die - they presumably can't live with themselves because of the bad things they have done?
2006-09-04 22:36:46 · 21 answers · asked by big pup in a small bath 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I like to think of him suffering in jail. Surely death would end his suffering? How do you think his victims families must feel knowing that they have to live with their grief for the rest of their lives whereas he wouldn't be suffering anymore?
He obviously doesn't fear Hell otherwise he wouldn't have done such a horrible thing in the first place so death would be an easy way out.
2006-09-04 22:40:08 · answer #1 · answered by Emma W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well the investigations and trials etc surrounding sentencing some one to death or investigating a suicide or attempted suicide all use tax payers money and a lot of it anyway. Suicide is the easy way out for these people. its the cowards way out and provides them with relief. Why give them the power to end their suffering when the families and loved ones of their victims have to endure a life time of pain and suffering? Don't mistake Ian Huntley for some one who "can't live with himself because of what he's done". this is a man who has never really shown any remorse for what he did. He feels no real guilt. What he is trying to get away from by killing himself is the shame and torture he is no doubt enduring being in prison. he is one of the most hated men int he country after all. He is a truly cold blooded killer and should not be allowed the sweet relief of death. I hope he lives a very long and tortured life and even then I don't expect he will feel half as much pain and suffering as the families of those poor little girls.
2006-09-05 06:31:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only it were this simple. I actually just recently got back from a prison tour trip for my school, where we got to visit some of the most notorious prisons throughout California. At Calirnia Mens Colony in SLO we were shown quite a few different ways in which inmates attempt suicide. They try to structure everything in a manner that inmates would be unable to do this even if they tried, and are actually decently successful at doing so. The general thought behind not letting them die is that they are still a human life, and they may be able to be rehabilitated. Right now (in California at least) rehabilitation is one of their top concerns (well publicly at least), and if prisons are allowing inmates to commit suicide all the time then the positive statistics they are searching for will never come, because everybody will be dying. Oh and usually when inmates try to kill themselves, it isn't because they can't live with themselves, but because they know they can't live. It's almost always lifers who are trying anything, because they know the only daylight they will ever see will be out on the field, and even then the big notorious guys can get as little as 1 hour outside daily. In the end, it all comes down to the fact that they are still a human life, and it is highly immoral to ALLOW someone to take a life away, even if they want to.
2006-09-05 05:50:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think all prisons should have a suicide policy - at any time any prisoner can request suicide and they'll be taken off to a clinic and given the lethal injection. We don't have to pay out 4,000 per week (or is it day?) to keep them, and we won't hear any more about them.
I think the only reason they keep people like Huntly alive is because they're scared they might not be guilty and the government might end up with egg on it's face - let's face it, most of those people in prison ARE guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
I say test the drugs on them, or make them do factory work, something that's useful to the rest of society.
2006-09-05 05:49:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we shouldn't let them get on with it. We should not judge anyone ourselves that is for God to do. I should imagine that Huntley has realised the enormity of his crime and is in living hell.Just being imprisoned for life and knowing that you will never get out...that many people hate you for what you have done...is mental torture on its own. He is obviously sick and being so needs care and attention. I do not condone what he did in any way. It was sickening to let children trust you and then do that to them but God sees all and knows all. Let Him deal with it. If suicide is attempted and is successful that is one thing but attempts are often unsuccessful and that would, in your opinion I expect, be more money from the taxpayer. I would say...let things take their course; let Huntley sort himself out and, [perhaps he should be taught to do some good for the community instead whilst he is in prison.
2006-09-05 05:48:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I agree. I don't know whether it's because they can't live with the things they have done or whether it is just self pity and being unable to cope with being in prison. Either way, I don't think a lot of tears will be shed if Huntley goes the same way as Shipman did (also in Wakie prison, by the way....)
2006-09-05 05:42:58 · answer #6 · answered by arwen4838 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is really too good for some people. He should be made to serve out his punishment in full. Death would be an easy way out for him. If he feels suicidal then his sense of despair is evidence that he is suffering. That is what he deserves - the more drawn out the better.
The decision to let him live or die is more than just an economic one - I am willing for my taxes to be used to ensure that he receives the fullest possible punishment. Let him do what he like afterwards and explain his actions to God face to face then - and not a moment before.
2006-09-05 08:10:15 · answer #7 · answered by Archie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I woke up to this story as 'breaking news' on the BBC and it infuriated me. I don't care if Ian Huntley lives or dies, I am quite happy for him to rot forgotten in prison, the names of his victims should live on but I resent this animal being given any more publicity.
2006-09-05 05:41:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In America, we treat the suicides of prisoners on death row. How ya like that?
I don't approve of the death penalty and I admire you British for getting rid of it. I think you have to try and rescue him. One of the reasons I don't approve of the death penalty is that it doesn't leave a prisoner time to repent of what he did. I know this guy is a bad one he would have been dead twice over had he committed his crime in Texas but the real test of a civilization is not how it treats the good people but how it treats foreigners and prisoner.
2006-09-05 06:21:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes we should definitely offer them the option of voluntary euthanasia, it would help to take off some of the pressure off an already overcrowded prison service and free up resources for more important things than keeping people like that alive.
2006-09-05 05:53:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ian huntley should have hung for what he did to those poor girls and their families suicides the easy way out hes a coward and should not be allowed to have any kind of medicine given to him then he wouldnt have found it so easy to do it anti depressants should have give him rat poisen
2006-09-05 05:49:51 · answer #11 · answered by bexieboo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋