is hanging to good for these b******ds

[VINNY100_2]

Mary-Ann Leneghan, 16, was stabbed to death in Prospect Park, Reading, Berks, in the early hours of Saturday.

Her 18-year-old friend is seriously ill after being subjected to a violent sexual ordeal by up to six men.

This has left me stunned and Angry and feeling very sad for their poor familys,I dont know if these are the right words to express my feelings.But i just feel hadred for the scum who did this.But right now I would quite happliy pull the lever that would hang those who are guilty.your thoughts please!!

[Didwot]

Life can, of course, mean life, if the "whole life" tarriff is set.
The most notorious murderers will never be let out.

[Dom Tuk]

Hanging is indeed to good for those who are convicted of this appalling crime. They should be released on an island and the highest bidder (oh we will raise millions ) should be allowed to pursue them and kill them. There is a rumour that this kind of thing happens in africa for the right kind of money only with innocent humans. Sorry if this is graphic but the more i read about the crimemore i am warmed to this idea.

[45703]

I wonder how many of you would be willing to pull the lever and send them to their deaths.

[45703]

Life should mean life.

[netibiza]

45703  - I for one would WILLINGLY - pull the levers on these sick b*stards

[cruthinboy]

Yeah, I'd be more than happy to pull that ole lever - tease 'em  a bit by pulling it a little - opping -pulling it again etc. Oh what fun!

[cruthinboy]

For "opping" read "stopping"!

[In4themoney]

I wouldn�t tell them how they were going to die I would walk them past an electric chair ,the hangman, the doctor with an evil grin and very large lethal injection needle, a blind man with a very large axe, a  plank over a vat of boiling oil then pick one ball out off a bowl of five.

[cruthinboy]

In4themoney - so much more interesting than the feeble "life to mean life" brigade.

[jno]

my, this topic has certainly encouraged everyone to be upfront about their torture fantasies. I expect there's work in Abu Ghraib for all. And I say...shoot them... slowly!

[gerry]

I don't believe that if you killed them you would be lowering yourself to their level.If the death penalty was still about then it there for a reason.Why show  remorse to these animals.

[mystress]

The people on this thread scare me awfully,almost more than the actual murderers!

[VINNY100_2]

mystress,its been AMOTIONAL!!

[VINNY100_2]

Or it could be Emotional!!( :)

[El D]

As some people have pointed out this is not about defending these men. I was as angry as you lot reading about the sickening and shameful acts that took place and I had to work hard to not submit to the rage that is the basis for such death and torture claims. This is about staking a claim as to what our society stands for and that does not include executing those who break the law. I have said before it's not nice, it's not popular, it's not agreeable and yet I feel we must not lower ourselves to the same stance on human life as these despicable individuals.

[VINNY100_2]

ELD I See where your coming from But Im not sure where we are going.Its been emotional

[jno]

okay, team, here's another story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4537001.stm

Guy hasn't got the taxi fare home from a party (�60) so the cabbie dumps him halfway down a dual carriageway. A driver hits him but doesn't bother to stop to see what it was. Minibus drives over him but driver thinks 'it's a bin bag.' Woman runs over him, gets out and finds it's a body, then drives on to a party. Man runs over him, gets out and removes some of his clothing that's got caught on his car, then drives on.

It's three days before anyone reports the accident. Cause of death: multiple injuries.

So what do you think, hanging too good for these animals? Does the fact that they used cars instead of knives make a difference? Does it matter that he was drunk and broke? That he wasn't young, female and pretty? That it happened in Wales so is unlikely to get as much publicity in national newspapers?  Just how much do these factors weigh in whether you call for blood?

[oxeyedaisy]

the unfortunate thing in this case is when they are caught and sentenced they will probably plead diminished responsibility through drugs or plead that they had unstable backgrounds..trying to gain sympathy..i would hang the lot of them..they are just barbaric..its a sickening crime..and the thought of them sitting in jail with all the tax payers money providing luxury for them is even worse..

[flaming]

Whew! including the links.  The death penalty was still possible when I was young.   When emotion/anger is spent, months after a brutal killing, someone  sentenced to hang, there comes the execution morning; grandad's grave face as the minute hand ticked up.  I remember two as murder was a rarity then, at least discovered ones.  It was a sombre time; might have been mitigating circumstances, perhaps circumstantial evidence. In the last hours a reprieve had been denied by the Home Secretary, despite a petition appealinm for clemency.  I was older when Ruth Ellis was hanged and was very upset.  Later, when the death penalty was abolished by MPs, I was outraged.  Later still, after knowing about the mistakes made, whether it be in hanging, or a long prison sentence, I went against capital punishment.   Today murder is commonplace. The tide of violence and murder in our towns and cities, often linked to the drugs trade, makes me re-examine my thoughts.  DNA testing CAN make the conviction safe.  The case last week re conviction of a man for the killing of Hilda Murrell (?) 20 years ago shows its effectiveness. But what about the times when there's no DNA evidence?  It's one thing in the heat of the moment to bay for blood, but what if there are later doubts? Society's decision  to kill is then in cold blood.  Where there is proper and conclusive evidence I am persuaded that a murderer must be hanged but let's hear all the evidence first.  Real killers remain at large in some cases, whilst we are busily 'proving'the guilt of the individual(s) in  the dock.  I have to accept that such terrible crimes must be deterred somehow; accept that DNA evidence and the scrutiny of the case by a less class-biased (it used to be) media could mean a water-tight case..