When Are We Going To Bring Back Capital Punishment For Animals Like This?

[Quangoid]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4671912/Five-year-old-battered-mother-s-boyfriend.html

I'm saddened and shocked and in cases like this where you act like an animal the punishment should be like those for a wild killer animal, the words "Sharia law" spring to mind and if you're far right or an islamaphobe replace the word "Sharia" with "Medieval" as those muslims sure know how to meat out justice where we tickle our criminals with cotton wool gloves and "Balsa wood" sentences

[Mamyalynne]

Why way are you heading? just checking you see.


Every time I read of such horrific crimes I lose a bit more hope in humankind, if I voted in favour of the Death Penalty I'd have lost all hope.


So, put simply - I hope I never live to see the reintroduction.

[scooping]

Quangoid: Not the least bit confused. You go for your walk, preferably on a balsa plank.

[Quangoid]

That sounds like something someone who agrees with sharia law would say.

[Peter Pedant]

o god I love these real life debates on AB

There is no appetite for the return of capital punishment
as a result of mistakes on the last group of terrorists
( virtually no mainland convicted IRA bomber had 'done it' - bar the Balcombe St gang - the rather gullible LCJ even regretted at the time he couldnt hang them - and then when he was told the police had lied to him said, " it is not my fault if the police choose to lie" ) oopsie

[EDDIE51]

Look at my previous posts! I have done this one to death.
To put it simply there is ONLY ONE possible sentence for murder , that is 'Life'. The Judge has to set a 'tariff' for a life sentence. Until the tariff has been served the offender can not even start the process of applying to the parole board for possible release 'on licence'. The worse the crime the longer the tariff!
A 'lifer' can never be free in the way that a person who serves a determinate sentence can. They can always be returned to jail without trial if they break any of the terms of the release licence.
In this way life does mean Life !
Finally all other prisoners and warders HATE child murderers , this guy's life will be a living hell. He can expect to find glass splinters and razor blades hidden in his food, he may well be 'napalmed'.
(Look at my previous posts to see what I mean.)
Warders will 'accidently on purpose' leave him in a position where other inmates can harm him, the other inmates will be competing to see who can get to him first .

[Baldric]

OPer is one small step away from a Troll imho.

[Quangoid]

Aah that old chestnut. If a new user rocks the boat as they're not sheeple and have a view that differs from the majority then yell "Witch"

I have a different view to yours, deal with it.

[Baldric]

I deal with it easily. A few of your opinions are not so far removed from mine.
The difference is I am a realist not a fantasist.

[Quangoid]

I still don't see how that equates to me trolling.

[scooping]

Now you've said you're going to campaign 'all the way to the Commons' for the reintroduction of the death penalty it would be great if you kept the rest of us appraised about your progress. Once every five years will be fine.

[agchristie]

I've often heard people state that they would wish to see the return of capital punishment for 'certain types of murderers'.

I've never really understood the logic there.

To answer the OP, I think it will be a very long time, if ever, before CP returns.

[Baldric]

//one small step away from a Troll//

[ToraToraTora]

have you done some bird eddie? you seem well acquainted.

[agchristie]

TTT - oh my! ;-)

[EDDIE51]

TTT as I have said on here many times, I have worked in a prison education department, I have talked to a lot of murderers!

[ToraToraTora]

I see, no offence intended.

[Peter Pedant]

// Look at my previous posts! I have done this one to death. // ed
in fact Ed you thought to yourself - Hang it! I've exhausted......

yes every day something the same
( semper aliquid novum ex Africa - always something new from Africa - but I have changed it a bit )

Do you remember the daily Brexit thread - sometimes more than one if the average ABer was feeling frisky ?
it is the same - troll-food I call it

[yeah but no but - "what does the Latin mean?" - quips one AB wag)

[Peter Pedant]

// have you done some bird eddie? you seem well acquainted.//
o my god ed it is deja vu all over again ( Louis B Mayer )

Nailit last time wasnt it ?

[andy-hughes]

Quangoid - you do seem to very angry - I am not sure if this is you, or just that certain issues get you going.

I think that confusing people who are against CP with `hand wringers`is a mistake because it infers that an extreme position at either end of the argument is the only possible way to view this.

As I see it, capital punishment is not `punishment`at all, since the concept of punishment is to ensure that the experience means that the perpetrator will not carry out the same act again - tricky if they are murdered before they get a chance to show that any punishment has actually had the desired effect.

Capital punishment is not a deterrent, simply because no-one who commits a capital crime considers that they will even be caught, much less convicted and executed. That requires rational logical thinking which is utterly at odds with the sort of crime that attract serious levels of redress.

So you are left with what capital punishment actually is - which is revenge, and entirely understandable human reaction to horrible crimes, but not the action of a civilized society.

I cannot support the murder of a criminal, because that makes me, by default, a murderer too. I am perfectly happy for my taxes to be paid to incarcerate a criminal for the time the law decides - but to take a life is simply not an acceptable way to deal with anyone, because murder is still murder, even if you do it inhumanely by any of the proscribed execution methods on the planet.

I am not a `hand wringer`- but I don;t like people being murdered on my behalf either.

[237SJ]

I have never been a believer in capital punishment (even in the 80s when I had the IRA trying to blow me up) but I would be quite happy to see it brought back for mass terrorism. Sorry if nobody likes it but that is the way it is.