Referendum ??

[gulliver1]

In view of this latest murder of an Mp .
....... Is now the time to have a referendum in the UK to bring back hanging.?

[AuntPG]

bobbi stop baiting Gully. This was a decent thread before you popped in with your penneth worth.....Just saying like.....

[davebro]

I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers from Lee Rigby's regiment.

[gulliver1]

APG @ 10. 23 . I can see your point about being radicalised in prison.

[Arrods]

Gully, my suggestion was the compromise route, on the basis that capital punishment will never see the light of day here.

[pat2604]

Life should mean life and in solitary confinement. I don't believe capital punisment would be a deterrent - these attacks would still happen.

[Ken4155]

"Take this pill or spend the rest of your life locked up for 23 hours per day." Isn't assisted suicide illegal?
If there was a 100% guarantee that the wrong person could not be executed, i would be all for it. As that is not the case, i'm with the 'life means life with no parole' brigade.

[Bobbisox1]

Personally I’d be in favour of capital punishment for heinous crimes like this and child murder, those that commit them serve no purpose on planet Earth

[andres]

Definitely!

[Arrods]

"Isn't assisted suicide illegal?"
At the moment, yes - but the law could be changed.

[AuntPG]

A Firing Squad would be the last thing that should be used. That would give them Gravitas 'killed in battle' and their 40 virgins. A lethal injection with no religion involved than straight in for cremation would be a deterrent, I'm sure. they would be classed as unclean by the surviving family members, who would be shamed.

[Ken4155]

Personally i believe all terrorists should just be 'disappeared'. No fanfare. No religious burials. Just 'disappeared'.

[gulliver1]

Davebro 10.32/10.34 , That is a better Idea and should be included with a tick box on the referendum papers .

[Untitled]

absolutely not!!

don't care how awful the crime is... executing people is wrong... even if the majority of people want it.

[gulliver1]

Three choices then on the Referendum form ... tick the box.
Death by hanging.
Death by firing squad.
Death by poison pill.

[AuntPG]

// executing people is wrong//

and killing innocent men women and children is even 'Wrong-er'

What would you have us do? Give them three square meals a day for the rest of their lives, give them pray mats so they can worship their warped religion? Let them radicalise other prisoners and be looked up to as a martyr for their cause?

[andres]

Not hanging but a pill or lethal injection . To lock someone up for life is a form of torture. Or why not bring in the firing squad.During the war innocent men were hauled out into a yard ,lined up and shot just because they didn't want to enter into combat and kill other human beings. The murderers we are talking about are not innocent . They are guilty and should be dealt with quickly, not allowed to live in prisons for the rest of their lives.

[gulliver1]

Untitled 10.48.... "Executing people is wrong",,,so is murder.

[naomi24]

Pointless question. It won't happen.

[gulliver1]

Taliban , had a diffent method .

[Untitled]

I agree gulliver... that's why I do not want the government to do it in my name!