should we bring back hanging and the birch?

Answer 1

Yes we should! It might even come to that to dish out punishment now that the prisons are too full.

Answer 2

I'd certainly say that in certain circumstances crimes merit severe punishment, especially the birch.
There has been a recent case in the Bahamas (?) in which a man was sentenced to 12 lashes and 14 years, with 6 lashes to be received at the start and end of his sentence. This is to be done with the cat o' nine tails. It was pointed out by the police that few who receive the lashes return to prison again. Proof it works.
Certainly some young offenders deserve this- they show little respect for anyone. This would be a shock to the system and a proper punishment to the life of luxury many lead in YOI/prisons. It would be a source of shame equally where the punishment was public.
But hanging is another matter. It is technically suppposed to exist for crimes such as high treason, but this is usually difficult to prove in a court. As for murder, rape and other serious offences, the use of forensics in trials and the accuracy of these tests means that in many cases it can be proved beyong a shadow of a doubt that the defendant did it. In a case such as this where there is indisputable evidence, then the death penalty should be sought. There is still a working gallows at Wandsworth prison, and many older prisons still have intact condemned cells and intact execution rooms.
Prison overcrowding is getting out of control, and the service is too stretched to build prisons, which takes time and money, and employ staff (wardens, doctors, cooks, cleaners, security staff, dog handlers...). Similarly, there is little land available and many residential places would not want a prison so near to homes and schools.
One of the major advantages of the modern prison system is that it recognises those prisoners who are mentally ill or have learning disabilities, and so the execution sytem would only deal with sane and competant convicts
So I agree that these punishments are needed and needed soon.

Answer 3

Definitely yes to the birch.

However I think hanging is unnecessarily cruel. Executions should be by firing squad or lethal injection. The recent execution of a criminal in america this way was a horrifying story and apparently the criminal suffered a great deal, but it doesn't have to be like this as anyone knows who has had an animal euthanased. americans just like to torture people. If we have decided it's best for society to take a life I don't think it should be viewed as punishment but as a necessary measure for the good of all, and so the person to be executed should not suffer at all if possible, he is already losing his life, why do anything to him.

I would have capital punishment for murder and also for child sexual abuse, because these crimes apart from their effect on the victim directly attack society as a whole at its foundations - the right to be alive and to raise a new generation.

Answer 4

Not hanging but the birch yes. (they should be placed in every market square and the yobs from aged 10yrs up should be placed in them for 2hrs a day at least once a week - It should be an offence to physical touch people in a birch or to chuck tomatoes,etc at them. But i would walk past them and call them a scummy Bast@rd!!!). Wait i hear do gooders saying it's it against their human rights. Pass the psp mate,u can watch sky!!!

Answer 5

Can't go with hanging, look at all the miscarriages of justice in recent years. But the birch, well people might think twice about their petty crime if they thought they might end up with a few stripes on the backside. Can you imagine what the PC liberals would say ha ha ha!!!

Answer 6

Yes, definately, why should we have to pay taxes for all those locked up. It's bad enough trying to live on a poltry wage, whilst they're all livin it up in prison. And keeping all the assylum seekers and illegal immigrants. Just cos they want a roof over their heads, and a comfy bed. The majority of people in this country want the death sentence bringing back. But we don't have a say.

Answer 7

I don't like hanging except for game meat but the Birch might work, for tenderising meat

Answer 8

That was the 15th century. I say give them all a computer a t.v a stereo a luxury double bed to sleep on. A personal gym and let them out for weekends from Friday to Monday. (Only kidding) But I do think we should be more harsh on prisoners then they would think more than twice before they did there wrong doings again.

Answer 9

i'm truly adversarial to capital punishment (and that i'm no longer a goodie, goodie!), yet i imagine the chance of it can make those human beings end and picture before they act and commit countless the unnecessary in spite of the actual incontrovertible truth that hideous crimes that flow on; as an get mutually in the united kingdom in difficulty-free words this week (do not comprehend once you're in the united kingdom or possibly heard about this), a woman replaced into attacked with bleach only for telling someone to be quiet in the cinema, I heard on the archives as we talk that her sight is going to be critically impaired because of it. i do not comprehend one of those mentality. regrettably this is no longer in basic terms the elderly, children, weak and weak that are centred, this is all of us who in basic terms occurs to be in the incorrect/accurate position on the incorrect time. it type of feels there are further and extra random acts of violence by technique of those who can't administration themselves or are doing it for amusing. i imagine they ought to convey decrease back needed nationwide service. i comprehend i might want to have benefited from it and that i have never deliberately nor by probability damage all of us, i do not intend to in the destiny both.

Answer 10

no, just build more prisons with stiffer sentences.

hanging and the birch didnt prevent crime happening, but it did lead to innocent people being killed by being hanged for something they hadn't done.

the quality of mercy is not strained...in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. william shakespeare, the merchant of venice.