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Parliament Would Never Say Yes, But With The Increase In Savage Murders, If They Were To Hold A Referendum For The Return Of Capital Punishment Would The British Public Vote Overwhelmingly 'yes'?
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Capital punishment in this country thank god consigned to history.
A referendum would only ever be held by a government that supported it in the first place. And most referendums are called by the side that thinks it would win.
Meanwhile parliament might never vote for Brexit: so the people might have to do it again for them lol.
A referendum would only ever be held by a government that supported it in the first place. And most referendums are called by the side that thinks it would win.
Meanwhile parliament might never vote for Brexit: so the people might have to do it again for them lol.
Yes I think they would . We can't keep filling up the prisons with murdering scum and paying a fortune to keep them alive whilst the poor people they have killed are rotting in the ground. Give them a lethal injection and get rid.
DNA testing and modern technology are supposed to be foolproof these days.
DNA testing and modern technology are supposed to be foolproof these days.
AOG - // I am talking in such circumstances as those who killed Lee Rigby, no one could say that they might not have been guilty. //
Guilty of the murder, yes.
But in a civilised society a trial is necessary, and that means any defence solicitor is going to offer, and attempt to prove, mental instability as the cause, and I don't believe we are at a stage where we execute mentally ill people.
To save time, let me pre-empt any poster sitting down to write something like "So you think murdering scum should be allowed to live because a clever lawyer can get them off … "
That's not what I am saying.
Guilty of the murder, yes.
But in a civilised society a trial is necessary, and that means any defence solicitor is going to offer, and attempt to prove, mental instability as the cause, and I don't believe we are at a stage where we execute mentally ill people.
To save time, let me pre-empt any poster sitting down to write something like "So you think murdering scum should be allowed to live because a clever lawyer can get them off … "
That's not what I am saying.
AOG - The difficulty is, every crime is unique, and it's impossible to be sure every single time that a murderer is guilty under the law, and that an irreversible sanction such as execution, can be assured as being beyond any doubt, now and also in the future.
Timothy Evans is a more accurate example, rather than Derek Bentley - he was convicted largely on Christie's evidence, and would be today in the same circumstances, leaving aside Evans reduced mental capacity to stand trial.
That means that an 'Evans' deemed fit to stand trial with the evidence given, would have been hung today as well.
That possibility has to ensure that Capital Punishment remains what it is - a relic of a more barbaric time.
Timothy Evans is a more accurate example, rather than Derek Bentley - he was convicted largely on Christie's evidence, and would be today in the same circumstances, leaving aside Evans reduced mental capacity to stand trial.
That means that an 'Evans' deemed fit to stand trial with the evidence given, would have been hung today as well.
That possibility has to ensure that Capital Punishment remains what it is - a relic of a more barbaric time.
andres - // Strange world isn't it? We send soldiers out to kill innocent people and rejoice in the fact that we have won a war but we can't put to death murdering scum who have deliberately killed another human being. //
That is serious over-simplification of a difficult moral problem - so not really helpful to the debate I would suggest.
That is serious over-simplification of a difficult moral problem - so not really helpful to the debate I would suggest.
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