What method of execution do you think we'd adopt? We seemed to like hanging but I think that's a bit dated now- or would we have follow America?
PS, was any method of execution except hanging ever used in the UK (except military firing squads)? I've never heard of electric chair or gas chamber over here. I'm not including ye olde methods of burning at hte stake etc etc by the way!
2006-09-28 02:13:26 · 12 answers · asked by DaveyMcB 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I think I'd be for it being brought back, but I'd have to consider it. Leathal injection would be my best bet. Ive never heard of any other methods of execution other than the ones you mentioned in living memory.
2006-09-28 02:22:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In fact the execution chamber is still present in Pentonville Prison, cleverly disguised as an office, just in case the death penalty were ever to be reintroduced. There seems little doubt about it, hanging would be resumed if ever the death penalty were voted back, as it is all ready to go! I think that the system used in the US with relatives of victims looking on is quite abhorrent and I was sickened at a feature on BBC news yesterday showing Chinese prisoners being led to their public execution with ropes around their necks so that they would choke if they dared struggle. I haven't come across any system of humane execution, except possibly for the methods used in euthanasia, which of course do not contain any element of punishment. The issue is: do we want people to suffer during execution? It's all very well for people who have not been at the receiving end of violent crime to theorise: what do the victims feel ?
2006-09-28 09:23:20 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hanging was the usual method of execution in the UK and it was very quick and clean. We will never again have the death penalty as Tony Blair signed a document which will prevent it from being reintroduced. The last working gallows were at Wandsworth Prison and had been retained as there were still a few crimes for which one could in theory be hanged (piracy on the high seas for example). The gallows were removed during renovation.
2006-09-28 09:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myth: You can still be hanged for regicide, treason or arson in a naval dockyard. This includes the military.
The penalty cant be brought back because UK signed the International and Euro agreements on Human Rights which make it illegal (1998/9 i think) and since then there has been no death penalty crime on the statutes.
However, burning, torture(to death), quartering (part of hung drawn and quartered, the first 2 were to inflict pain not kill you), beheading by axe or sword, the wheel (being tied to it and rolled over spikes/ wheel turned on its side and you were spun whilst iron bars beat you to death) and of course plain old shooting and hanging from the neck have all been used.
2006-09-28 09:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by The Pirate Captain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, i'm guessing it'd have to be the lethal injection because if it were to be brought back, the death penalty would have be carried out in the most humane way possible to keep the human rights people happy, and the injection is the quickest. Though, i don't agree that those who are put on death row would deserve a humane death.
I have no idea what we used to use apart from beheading and hanging
2006-09-28 09:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by mother knowledge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we would probably still do hanging. there are in fact three hangable offences in England, attempted regicide (killing a king/queen), mutiny and causing a riot in her majesty's shipyard. its ben a while since anyone did any of these things so i don't know what would happen if they did! in history there are some very nasty ways we use to execute people. one was tieing a persons arms to two pulled back trees and then letting them go... another was strapping someone down and putting a cage on their belly with a light at the top and rats in it, so they bury into you to get away from the heat of the light, drawing, that is, slitting the belly and removing the intestines, a more simpler one was pouring water down someone's throat until their stomach burst (literraly) so i think we win the prize in executions really.
2006-09-28 09:24:27 · answer #6 · answered by w359borg 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably lethal injection.
Can anyone tell me why before inserting the needle they clean the area with an antiseptic swab?
Are the afraid the prisoner is going to get an infection?
2006-09-28 09:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by rosbif 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well firstly I'd move sum where else if we did. and no we stopped the death penalty around the time of hanging
2006-09-28 11:54:38 · answer #8 · answered by eayrin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Henry VIII lopped the heads off of people, does that count as execution?
2006-09-28 09:16:00 · answer #9 · answered by Deb002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if it is proved beyond reasonable doubt that a person committed an evil crime then any form of death penalty is fine by me.
2006-09-28 09:23:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋