If it is, why do we put up with all this extremist ****, hang the buggers, they do it in THEIR countries of origin and they swing!! Why do they get away with it here.
Don't read this wrong, I am not a racist, This applies to anyone who lives on the wrong side of the law. It's about time the powers that be, upheld the laws of this land. Same applies to burglars and muggers and all the other low life dross out there
2007-07-19 04:00:22 · 21 answers · asked by Rabid Dog 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Thats simple all the DoGooders live here! hang the DOGOODERS!
2007-07-19 05:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
In English law high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered (men) or burnt at the stake (women), the only crime which attracted those penalties (until the Treason Act ) The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act. Before 1998, the death penalty was mandatory, subject to the royal prerogative of mercy. Since the abolition of the death penalty for murder in 1965 an execution for treason was unlikely to be carried out. Treason laws were used against Irish insurgents before Irish independence. However, IRA and other republican guerrillas were not prosecuted or executed for treason for levying war against the British government during the Troubles. They, along with loyalist militants, were jailed for murder, violent crimes or terrorist offences. William Joyce was the last person to be put to death for treason, in 1946. (On the following day Theodore Schurch was executed for treachery, a similar crime, and was the last man to be executed for a crime other than murder in the UK.)
2016-04-01 01:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no hanging offenses in the UK left - the ones that remained such as setting fire in the Queen's docks were quietly removed a few years back.
The death penalty is against EU law. Just because other people do it, it doesn't make it right.
2007-07-19 04:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Mordent 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, there are now no hanging offences in the UK. The last one to be abolished was arson in the queens docklands, which was abolished in the 70's (I think).
I do feel we should have some sort of capital punishment for people like paedophiles and extremists, but thats just my personal opinon!
2007-07-19 04:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by Emma W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is, but unfortunately once we signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, we also signed away our right to carry out the death penalty. The last gallows in the country were dismantled some time ago at Wandsworth Prison in London.
2007-07-19 08:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Capital Punishment (the death penality) was abolished in the UK for Treason in the 1990's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom
2007-07-19 04:07:39 · answer #6 · answered by Spawnee 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. Tony Blair repealed the death penalty for Treason in the Crime and Disorder act 1998.(Available online) It is now punishable by life imprisonment.............
courtesy of the EU...
2007-07-19 04:19:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Only Isle of Man and southern Ireland still have the death penalty
2007-07-20 00:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by Jackie M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Death penalty has been ruled out in the U.K. for a long time.
2007-07-19 04:08:31 · answer #9 · answered by cidyah 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep I think so. Should also apply to the new No Smoking in enclosed areas law as well.
2007-07-19 04:04:52 · answer #10 · answered by DAVE 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No there are no death penalty offences in Britain anymore.Nor anywhere else in the EU.
2007-07-19 06:34:31 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋