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Post by valdez on Oct 28, 2019 21:55:25 GMT
well should it be allowed again as i see it the biggest no is when they have got the wrong person a innocent man/woman get killed should it be put to a public vote if it was and you said yes would you pull the lever for the trap door,shoot the rifle,push a button for a injection easy to say yes but would be different when the time came to do it the Yorkshire Ripper killed several woman i dont think he will ever get out so if he was hung how much would that save that money could go for cancer treatment for kids so i would say in some cases yes bring it back that is if you can be sure you have the right person
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Post by VanWoman84 on Oct 28, 2019 22:00:24 GMT
It would have to be a unanimous guilty verdict, but yes.
It can be argued there is the death penalty in the US and there's murder on a huge scale, but prisons are overflowing enough as it is.
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Post by bigbear67 on Oct 28, 2019 22:05:37 GMT
Not sure if any man should have the right to take another man's life, whatever the circumstances. Same as any system, some bastard usually works out how to manipulate it for their own ends...😕
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Post by bernie on Oct 29, 2019 8:48:30 GMT
The biggest argument against the death penalty is than weak minded jurors would not find people guilty even though there was clear evidence of guilt.
They wouldn't want to have it on their conscience that their verdict sent somebody to the gallows. Too many would balk at making the decision and the guilty person walks free.
Its happening in America
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Post by cornishharry on Oct 29, 2019 9:56:55 GMT
a part of my duties in the navy was to maintain a working gibbet as even when the hanging stopped it was still possible to be hung for arson in a queens dockyard or conspiracy, although not used in my time it was a very sombre place dating back to the napoleonic wars. yes i,ve shot at people in a shoot or be shot situation, but to pull the lever i for one could not do it
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Post by bernie on Oct 29, 2019 11:26:40 GMT
a part of my duties in the navy was to maintain a working gibbet as even when the hanging stopped it was still possible to be hung for arson in a queens dockyard or conspiracy, although not used in my time it was a very sombre place dating back to the napoleonic wars. yes i,ve shot at people in a shoot or be shot situation, but to pull the lever i for one could not do it There have been some cases that I would be quite happy to see get the rope but now with investigative TV a lot of the old Victorian cases are getting picked over in detail. A number were very borderline. An interesting programme a while back about Crippin who was hanged for allegedly killing his wife and burying her under the floor in the cellar. It turns out now with the benefit of DNA that the remains found were not those of his wife at all. Then evidence was put forward that his wife had returned to her native Canada and relatives alive today in Canada confirmed it. Crippin and his wife had only lived in the rented flat for a few months and the decomposition of the remains found suggested they had been there much longer but that evidence was supressed. |
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Post by valdez on Oct 30, 2019 21:58:23 GMT
not heard of that bernie
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Post by boaty on Oct 31, 2019 22:23:02 GMT
I think I could support the death penalty for very specific crimes. For example, resisting arrest with firearms. Perhaps this would persuade a bank robber not to shoot his way through a copper to escape, or shoot a security guard.
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Post by rhythm on Dec 1, 2019 15:41:25 GMT
I don't think it should, especially these days when you have things such as trial by media, and the public fall for it, regardless of whether or not the person is innocent. Plus, in some cases, people can actually be rehabilitated to be better people and see the wrong they have done. I think getting the right balance between Justice for the Victim and rehabilitating the criminal if possible, is probably better.
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