If the death sentance was to become law in the UK...?

Question

would you want it to be a public spectacle?

Answer 1

yes i think so. it would put people off from commiting crimes

Answer 2

No.
I do try to be patient, but sometimes it really is difficult.

We live with a judicial system that is dependant on many individuals getting a host of factors correct. Being human, any one, or collective of them, can, and have been shown, repeatedly, get it wrong. It isn't anybodie's fault. It's just a part of being human.
That being the case, the police, the judiciary and juries will occasionally make mistakes.
If mistakes are made, then, if we have the death sentence, innocent people will be killed "in the name of justice".
Some people in this forum are fond of saying things that attest to the certainty of DNA or other kinds of evidence. Fine, except that DNA is not always available, and is not always accurate. Even when it is both available and accurate, it only says that a certain person was at the scene, not, positively, that that person did the deed. Other kinds of evidence have been proved to be wrong in the past as well, and have resulted in innocent people dying.
The caveat that it (the death penalty) should only be used where the verdict is beyond doubt holds no validity whatever, because, under British law, all verdicts in murder cases have to be delivered "beyond any reasonable doubt". Innocent people have died because they were guilty "beyond any reasonable doubt".
If you, or anyone else kills somebody, in the name of justice, how will you reinstate the person you killed to their place in society?
How will you apologise to them for getting it wrong?
How will yo apologise to their spouses and loved ones?
How will you say to their spouse and children "I'm sorry, but we got it wrong"?

Answer 3

Why? it didn't work in the past as far as stopping people commiting crimes that carried that sentence. Hanging was a very public spectacle! I'd prefer not to watch anything like that myself! There is more than enough violence available to view to satisfy even the most fanatical sadist mind already!
It's stupid to return to the past by bringing back the death penalty! I just wish that when they are given a life sentence that IS what they got, and that they had to serve their sentences without any of the 'rights' the do-gooders seem to demand.

Answer 4

Not at all. It is the most obscene thing to watch. It was never a public spectacle when we did have the death sentence. It would cause riots.

Answer 5

I would leave as I would not want to live in a country which has the death sentence so whether it was a public spectacle or not would be immaterial.

Answer 6

First, the death sentence cannot be returned to UK. Reason? It is outlawed by European Law.

Second, if we had public executions, I have no doubt it would draw the same drooling idiots who attended the regular hangings at Tyburn here in London, when family members jumped up to heave downwards while holding the legs of their loved one who was being slowly hanged on a swining rope.

Answer 7

Are you a ******* ******** ? this textual content is about France not the U.ok. it grow to be purely reported on the U.ok. yahoo internet web site. It has not something to do with the united kingdom. regardless of the indisputable fact that it does spotlight a situation. what can we do in 100 years time at the same time as the completed earth is roofed in grave yards. we ought to administration the start cost so the planet does not get well from crowded. Will people be buried contained in the sea or will they be despatched in to outerspace and then fall again to earth and dissipate contained in the ambience. Will people should be cremated and dumped contained in the sea??

Answer 8

Essex...remember when the Birmingham Six were given their sentences people were writing to newspapers wondering why the death penalty was discontinued in Britain - with the letters being printed with glee. Would hate to gawp at an execution with a bag of chips in my hand and a lottery ticket and The Sun in my back pocket, with a sneer of 'victory', and five years on, reading the same paper telling me (with far, far less words than it used for for the dead person's arrest and sentence) he wasn't the 'scum' we all bawled at outside Norwich City Hall. Who's to say, also that it would deter the determined - why not look over the Atlantic to see how much of a deterrent it is...okay - it's not 'public' id est; in New York's Central Park, but chosen people will still see it.

Yo, brother Styce...who's vexed yow a.ss?

Answer 9

I would welcome the return of the death penalty. Anyone who remembers those days would tell you murders were far and few between, nowadays murder is a trivial offence, you get more for robbing a bank or post office. To answer the question i would not like the death penalty to be a public spectacle.

Answer 10

No... I don't think we're ready for anything like that. Just think of the outcry when the preceeding moments and aftermath of Saddam Hussain's execution was shown on television. The justice system here, whilst a little rocky at the moment with the prison crisis, works for a reason. We're not animals and the idea of "an eye for an eye" just doesn't fit in with C21 culture.

Answer 11

The Death Sentence will never be reinstated in the UK.

I think that any country that has this and decides to make it a public thing, is truly barbaric.

Miscarriages of Justice have occurred in the past and no doubt they will continue in the future.


The 'knowledge' of the criminals punishment should be very public but not the event itself.