2007-07-02 10:33:22 · 25 answers · asked by stingmyflesh 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No we should all watch Death Wish and then go out and start a vigilante army and give out some real, fair and proper Justice!
2007-07-02 10:50:06 · answer #1 · answered by d__ 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
NEVER
Death penalties do nothing to deter crime. The 13 states of the USA which have no death penalty have lower crime rates than those with the penalty.
Don't listen to those who say it is cheaper. When someone's life is on the line, the legal bills for the trial and potential appeals are astronomical.
If you have a death penalty you clog up the court system because more defendants plead not guilty, since they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
If you get the verdict wrong, there is no going back once the defendant/victim has been judicially executed/murdered.
Two wrongs do not make a right. You cannot answer murder with state-sponsored murder.
I am sure I am in a minority. I think the majority want to act like animals. The majority once thought the earth was flat, so majorities can be wrong, and they are wrong about this!
2007-07-03 05:57:19 · answer #2 · answered by undercover elephant 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would be nice if you could ask Sally Clark that question. She was convicted of murdering two children - her own - on wholly falsified evidence presented by a bent Home Office Pathologist named Alan Williams who committed perjury a number of times while giving 'evidence'. She was released after the autopsy report of her eldest child showed that he died of natural causes. The autopsy report was on the Crown Prosecution Service's files - they illegally withheld it from the defence. Had she been hanged we would have murdered a grieving mother. She died of a heart attack recently, killed by those scumbags Williams and Roy Meadows, who also committed perjury while giving evidence against her.
This is not an isolated case. Barely a week goes by without another 'murderer' being released from custody - some after years or even decades in prison - after the prosecution case is shown to be lies, lies and more lies. If you would like to dispute the fact look up the Darvell brothers, Kevin Callan, Dave Wood, Adrian Maher, Graham Huckerby and Shay Power, The Guildford Four , The Birmingham Six, The Bridgwater Four, The M25 Three, Stephen Downing, Andrew Evans, Judith Ward, The Maguire Seven, Stefan Kiszko, Steven Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris, Peter Fell, Donna Anthony, Annette Hewins, Donna Clarke, and Denise Sullivan, Michelle and Lisa Taylor, Paul Blackburn, Michael O'Brien, Darren Hall and Ellis Sherwood, Andrew Adams ... get the picture? Few people believe Barry 'Bulsara' murdered Jill Dando (and mark my words, he'll be released soon, and his appeal will be a walkover) but at the moment he's still doing life. Would you have hanged him?
The death penalty is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. It is the penalty you can never take back, regardless of the facts that come to light after it has been imposed.
2007-07-02 11:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I see the pitch-fork brigade are out in force again!
Lets analyse this, why should we bring it back - as a deterrent? - well one look across the pond to America will show it is absolutely no deterrent at all. So no point there then.
To free up the prisons and save money? - an inmate on death row can go through an appeals process taking up to 10 yrs. The only people benefiting being the lawyers getting richer. So no point there then.
As a punishment? prisoners on death row report they are more scarred of being locked up forever than dying, one would safely assume that being locked up forever is more of a punishment than death. So no point there then.
And there is also the point made by Geoff S - murder is murder, even if carried out by the state.
In all there is not a single argument to support bringing back the death penalty.
2007-07-02 23:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by derbyandrew 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Not particularly...it doesn't make much of a difference in America afterall! People who are loopy enough to kill in the first place will not see the death penalty as a deterent...after all they think they'll never get caught right?
I think you're really meaning to say "should we give the death penalty to terrorists?"
They'll find some warped religious way of saying they are a martyr for receiving the death penalty etc and they're prepared to die anyway.
In my opinion...the police/governement should beat all the required answers out of them, kill them and bury them with a pigs head!
That'll be more demoralising as they see pigs as unclean.
2007-07-02 10:45:57 · answer #5 · answered by Lalalala 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'll go with a hesitant yes. Hesitant only cos they'd have to be sooooo sure the person did it and not risk killing innocent people. As for it not being a deterrent to crime...... How many times have you read about people being released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime only to end up back in court after murdering someone or raping a little kid? It's better than a deterrent - no way they'll be hurting anyone else if they're dead. As for do gooders.......why is life in prison more humane than death if the state/society has decided someone should never be allowed back into society? a lotta people might choose death in that situation and it'd save taxpayer money!
As for terrorists tho - you'd just be inflaming other potential martyrs to worse acts of terrorism. Anyway most of them accept the possibility of being killed. Maybe life in prison is a worse punishment for them.....
2007-07-02 10:56:15 · answer #6 · answered by LRolly 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
that is an emotive question but i don't think your deliberately trying to stir the mob the rule of law in this country is the best anywhere in this world.....but if anyone on this page really wants to see people hang let them be the executioner for the state as their day job for the rest of their working lives and watch as a condemned person is led to their death they ll probably block out in time the smell of fear and bodily fluids and the screams of the innocent as they protest in vain and im 100 percent sure their Friends wouldn't end up associating them with death or for that matter the general public no they would be feted in all the tabloids for their great works and paraded on the world stage as an example of British justice
2007-07-02 12:46:37 · answer #7 · answered by lazybones 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do not believe some of these people, we are supposed to live in a civilised society, you cannot on the one hand say it`s wrong for a individual to kill but it`s OK if the state does it. I have nothing against putting someone away for life and I mean life for the most serious offences but state murder should never be reinstated. You will get people say it isn`t murder, its justice, "crap" its revenge you can call it what you will, Capital punishment, execution, its murder which ever way you look at it and the most premeditated murder.
2007-07-02 11:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by Geoff S 1 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Geoff S..your wasting your time mate. None of these morons could think their way out of a paper bag. Let them all move to America where they can experience first hand the crime free nirvana the death penalty has surely created.
2007-07-02 11:42:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No. It doesn't deter and there are too many mistakes made.
Angela Canning and Sally Clark were both wrongly convicted of murdering their children, beyond all reasonable doubt by a jury. How would we have righted this wrong after hanging them?
2007-07-02 10:54:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋