Todays U.K. prisons are over flowing. Serious offenders are out on the loose, would hanging resolve this problem.
Opinions please.
2007-01-29 22:24:58 · 26 answers · asked by SOL SIREN 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Nope nope nope.
The UK prison situation would have been solved by now if the government had heeded warnings about overcrowding years ago - they ignored it and this is what happens.
Hanging is barbaric - and I don't believe we have the right to take lives - otherwise we become murderers too.
Plus - people like Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis souldn't have been hanged. It leaves the path open for miscarriages of justice.
Also - fantastic point made by Alberto above - the actual number of people you coul dhang is tiny.
Plus they'd have appeals and appeals and it would be a long long process.
We used to hang children in the UK for stealing bread - it would be a huge step backwards.
2007-01-29 22:39:01 · answer #1 · answered by gwen 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Please, simply build more prisons. Over the last thirty years we would already have hanged many innocents. It also turns the state into a murderer, and turns the public into grotesque voyeurs. Just look at Saddam's hanging. Also, I can't understand how anybody can kiss the kids and wife in the morning and then go off and kill somebody as part of his job. And they are killing in cold blood someone who they don't know and hasn't personally done anything to them. They must be worse than the prisoner, but then again, we have to consider, as in the US, the two hundred or so seriously deranged people who are quite happy to sit there and watch it.
2007-01-30 05:57:44 · answer #2 · answered by Veritas 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with barrowman anyone who is not a British national and commits a crime in Britain should be sent back to their own country and be banned for life from ever entering the U.K.
If the Government did this and took the psychiatric patients out of prison and placed them in appropriate accommodation there would be plenty of spaces in prison.
I wouldn't like hanging to be brought back under any circumstances.
2007-01-29 23:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by st.abbs 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
From what i can gather, capital punishment still exists for crimes against the crown ie; treason. But i fell that what with Human Rights putting there ore in it has made crime in this country a viable alternative to working. After all go to prison get let out early, get given everything from the state when you are released sign on at probation for a few moths, behave yourself and carry on as normal. then if you are really bored commit more crime and either go to prison or stay in a police station for a a while, then walk out. So i agree that capital punishment should be brought back as a real alternative for adults and old style boot camps for juveniles, i for one would take the job on along with others in the country..LETS GET THE COUNTRY BACK TO HOW IT SHOULD BE, SAFE AND TOLERANT FOR EVERYONE
2007-01-29 22:51:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I imagine that hanging a load of the more serious crims (the dangerous ones) would solve the overcrowding problem.
Trouble is, mistakes cannot be rectified afterwards, I don't agree with it and I think it would just cause more issues and aggro than we have already.
Repatriate the non Brits might be a better approach
2007-01-29 22:36:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would not resolve the problem.
Even if you ignore the obvious past miscarriages of justice, most prisoners are sentenced for relatively minor crimes (stealing cars, handling stolen goods). The proportion of dangerous (potentailly "hangable" prisoners is actually quite low.
2007-01-29 22:37:56 · answer #6 · answered by Well, said Alberto 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How many of them do you think to hang to reduce the number of prisons?
2007-01-31 11:47:11 · answer #7 · answered by edd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the return of the death penalty would certainly reduce the overcrowding in our prisons. But a better and more effective way for dealing with the crowding would be to repatriate, on humanitarian grounds, all the 11,000 foreign prisoners in our jails so that they could serve out their sentences near to their nearest and dearest.
2007-01-29 22:30:30 · answer #8 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The UK and other European countries have always been softer on crime than we have. But if capital punishment was brought back, I think lethal injections would be the way to go. JoHanna (the sixth answer) was very right too.
2007-01-29 23:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by The Reaganite 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. It's barbaric, does not act as a deterrant and innocent people will be executed.
Besides not enough people are gaoled for capital offences for hanging to make an appreciable difference to the prison population.
2007-01-29 22:28:29 · answer #10 · answered by Matthew H 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋