Do you think it is about time hanging was brought back?

Answer 1

I was always against it, but when I see some of the horrific crimes that go on, why should tax payers pay to keep them in prison, they live in luxury compared to some people who work hard. There is no place in society, so why not!!

Answer 2

Not really, unless one considers the old saying, "Let the punishment fit the crime." Suppose a bunch of white supremacists hung a black person; I'd be all for lynching them. But there are other methods of execution that are quicker, easier, and much more effective; hanging dates back to a time when such methods were not readily available, unless someone in the bureaucracy asked a doctor to come up with them.

To tell the truth, hanging was more of a statement than a mode of execution. Many people witnessed hanging, as opposed to current methods; it gave the impression that something was actually being done about crime. However, with modern media technology, it's just as easy now to watch a lethal injection by monitor. So, really, hanging is just an archaic and outmoded way of making a statement.

Answer 3

Some states still have hanging on the books as a means of execution. Is it time that it be brought back in other jurisdictions? That's an interesting question since capital punishment hasn't really slowed down the commission of violent crimes. Look at the state of Texas. That state is executing prisoners on a weekly basis and violent crime has not been reduced.

Answer 4

Absolutely no way, for several reasons.
1. The possibilty of a wrongful conviction, you can release someone wrongfully imprisoned, but there's no resolving a wrongful execution.

2. It's bloodthirsty vengeance, not justice, who are we to play God? A death sentence handed down by a judge and an official death warrant do not change the fact that it is murder. As Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."

3 . It solves nothing. Despite the death penalty in the USA, there is still a high murder rate. It doesn't act as a deterrent.

However, I do think conditions in prisons should be less comfortable and enjoyable.

Answer 5

To those who cite the US as a positive case for capital punishment, most prisoners are held for an average of over 20 years before being executed - about the same time as your life prisoner here in Britain.
What's the point in hanging just to appease a few blood thirsty right wingers?

Answer 6

Hanging cannot be brought back in because European law does not allow for it. besides think of the thousands of people who were hung that were innocent and the miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham six they would have been executed for a crime that they had nothing to do with. at least if a person is jailed and it is found out they are innocent you can free them you cannot free a corpse.

Answer 7

I don't know about hanging but the death penalty should definetly be brought back into this country, probably lethal injection. I'm fed up to the back teeth of these soft, liberal judges sobbing about how barbaric it is to cage people for life. The most seriouis crimes eg murder, rape, child abuse should mean execution. Surely it would make people think twice about committing these crimes and would save the taxpayer millions in keeping them them in prison.

Answer 8

My biggest worry would be about wrongful conviction. It happens all the time and if you've killed someone you can't take it back can you!!! PLUS isn't it more of a punishment to lock them in a tiny room for 70 years? They know life is going on outside but that they will NEVER be there again. Ouch if you ask me.

Answer 9

Not really. I mean some crimes do deserve it, but the justice system needs to be fixed before we do that. I mean if you kill one person you get the death penatly but if you kill 5 to 6 your dubbed criminally insane.... Put in a mental institution, and forgot about.

Answer 10

Yes. But only for chlid molesters.

Since apparently child molesters get probation, and no prison (there are hundreds of examples, before anyone starts) there is NO deterant. Start hanging them, and some of these cho-mo's might think twice. Televise them - heck with pay-per-view, on ABC.

I don't think it would be any more an effective deterant than lethal injection.

Answer 11

I don't think that capital punishment should ever be used. Besides the fact that I don't think one human should ever have the right to kill another, what about those people whose convictions are overturned years later, which would be a little late for those you've already hanged!