should the government?

Question

bring back public hangings?
of course for the dangerous criminals,that have been found,without a shadow of a doubt ,that they are 100% guilty?
im in favour,all agree say yeah..and disagree neahh?

just to add a detail to mr scheptic ? one ? no im not sick?two? if someone killed a member of my family ,or yours wouldnt you want the bastard to hang by his b@llocks,cos i would? get your brain in gear dim wit,before you try to outsmart any one?

p.s would your opinions change if the hijackers of 7-11 survived? and hundreds of innocents familys destroyed because of these maniacs? then what,give em a slap on the wrist and say ..dont do it again? please try to think a bit more deeply b-4 answering?

Answer 1

yeah, id pull the lever for free. if we make one mistake, and save a 100 innocent lives, we say sorry, pay compensation, its better than telling the hundred mothers, their baby has been murdered by a sicko. and when the sicko is caught, with todays forensics, it is 99.9 % chance they got the right man, so when he is caught, he wont be let out early by some saddo incompetent out of touch left wing liberal namby pamby judge after 3 yrs.
hang em high perv's, cop killers, rapists. make our country safe again.

Answer 2

No. Never.

First, we don't have 'degrees of guilt' under English law. All those convicted of murder have been found guilty, beyond all reasonable doubt, by a jury. Even the ones later found to be innocent. So that's a no to hanging full stop.

Public? How sick are you that you believe watching someone die is entertainment?

Your question suggests you don't give a toss about punishing criminals or protecting victims and their families - you just want someone to provide you with some gory Saturday afternoon entertainment.

EDIT: If you're keen on detail, you could at least copy the name down correctly. I beg to differ - if you believe that the state should make an execution into public entertainment for your gratification, then I think your judgement is at least flawed, if not sick.

I'm sure I would feel devastated and want revenge if someone murdered a member of my family. I'm sure I would want revenge, I might even want to see that person dead - I can't really say. What I can guarantee, absolutely, is that I wouldn't want to see an execution take place in public, so that my grief could be used for your bloodthirsty entertainment. And hanging by the neck is generally more effective than by the bollocks.

In any case, our justice system exists to serve everyone, not just individual victims. If I had lost a family member to murder, I would much rather see no one convicted, than see someone who was innocent hang.

My brain is in gear. Thankfully, to outsmart you, it doesn't have to be in a very high gear.

Answer 3

We gave up public executions in UK a long time ago.
There is a oft stated opinion in the press and elsewhere that an execution means closure. t I do not know who for. It is Is definitely a closure for the authorities who do not have to pay for the upkeep of the murderer. I do not accept that it is closure foe the family of the victim, they have still lost a member of the family. Given the number of times someone has been wrongly convicted after the evidence has been produced to Court I feel uneasy about executions.

I must admit that I had mixed feelings about dear old Saddam but recognised the political necessity of that execution but it still left me a little uncertain. I accept that many people were overjoyed and think I understand this after all I have not suffered under his government

Answer 4

The sentence is to punish and deter. However, before sentencing comes detection and prosecution.

When we had hanging there was still a lot of crime. I believe that the criminology research shows that a major part of deterrence relates to getting caught, and the the punishment is less significant than you might think.

Recently, as police road presence has gone down, the numbers of drinkers involved in accidents has gone up.

If people don't think they'll get caught then it doesn't matter what the penalty is - they'll do it.

In answer to your question, on moral and practical grounds:
neahh.

Answer 5

Of course everyone who has been wrongly executed was found 100% without a shadow of doubt guilty in the first place or they wouldn't have been murdered by the state.

That's the big problem with capital punishment, there's no going back when you realise, oops! shouldn't have done that, just killed an innocent person.

... who could be you.

Answer 6

I do favor the death penalty, but two big reasons for saying "neahh"-

1. Tell me how often we'll ever have no shadow of a doubt, 100% guilty convictions. Not usually how it works in capital cases.

2. I DO NOT want children to see this in public.

Haven't we evolved just a little bit in the past 150 years?

Answer 7

Too many people have been hanged and then later found not guilty. Are you certain that they are 100% guilty? Can you be sure?
This week a man was released from prison after serving 6 years for a rape he didn't commit, that they were positive he did at the time.

Answer 8

No, I'm not in favor of that.

Most people don't believe the Government can spend your tax dollars responsibly, so why do think they can get a execution right?

No government should have the right to kill it's own citizens.

Because of DNA testing, in the last five years over 200 "criminals" that the state believed were "100% guitly" had to be released from death row because they were innocent.

Because death is final and the criminal justice system is inperfect I'm against capital punishment.

Answer 9

Hanging has never been shown statistically to be a deterrent. That being so, your motive is revenge. For what purpose? Nothing is achieved, just your ego satisfied. Civilization means that we should be able to devise a proper deterrent, but no-one has yet so I guess the lowlifes who commit murder will continue, and society will keep picking up the bill (in all senses of the word).

Answer 10

Yeah! but I`m not so sure about `public hanging,` that`s a bit barbaric, but I`m in agreement of the death penalty for some people who commit deliberate murder; also includes child molesters, and those who kill police officers and premidated murder by those who do it and those who order it.
I would only disinclude cross-eyed chinamen because they cannot aim straight anyway.