The Death Penalty (Merged)

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

I'm against the death penalty as inevitably some of the innocent will be put to death. That's all there is to it.

Indeed. The possibility for the judiciary to get it wrong and kill an innocent person is not worth the risk of the state taking revenge upon criminals for their actions.
My other half is currently reading 'Executioner - the chronicles of a Victorian hangman' (ISBN 0750943085) and it seems that many of the 'ordinary' cases ie not the great media events like Dr Crippen etc are accounts of how a husband killed his wife after a drunken bender, or how a lover discovered their partners infidelity and lost it. Mundane stuff, as it were and not the terrible and evil crimes we tend to associate with execution - like the moors murders etc.

UKIP and that nutter bloke can (kilroy silk) get lost - none of them really have the brains to make an informed decision not based upon an emotional response to something offensive.
The decision to bring back execution should not be made in the wake of serious cases that capture the public attention... rabble rabble rabble rabble ...if you know what I mean.