James Bulger

[milliezoe]

If the two animals that killed James Bulger had been hanged then we would not have half the problems we have today. I am pointing to the yobs that killed a shopkeeper with a hammer in the news today hanging would have made them think twice ?

[ummmm]

Just like it does in America eh?

[Old_Geezer]

It is unlikely. Some other countries use murder as a form of punishment. It hasn't stopped violence in their society. In fact generally speaking they often seem to have more of it. Rule by fear probably only works, as far as one can say it works, in a small country/community where the idea that one is unlikely to get caught, isn't dominant.

[McMouse]

///If the two animals that killed James Bulger had been hanged///

You forgot the drawing and quartering and then putting the pieces in a cage to rot in the high street. Oh for the good old days.

[milliezoe]

Before they abolished hanging murder rates were very low. I lived close to Albert Pierpoint the hangman he bloody scared me !!!!!! .What alternative would you like to see to deter the yobs who know if they kill someone they serve a paltry sentence and they are back out to carry on where they left off.

[jno]

If the two animals that killed James Bulger had been hanged then we would not have half the problems we have today.

What, it would have stopped the credit crunch, prevented it snowing all winter, and got the trains running on time? Goodness, if only we'd known it was so simple.

[McMouse]

Before they abolished hanging juries were reluctant to pass a guilty verdict that would result in capital punishment. There were just as many victims of violent crime who lost their life.........the killers often got custodial sentences that kept them behind bars for years.

[McMouse]

I'm old but I'm not baying!

[milliezoe]

If you had one of your family killed by yobs you may change your mind zuehl

[rojash]

It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who think you can solve all the world's problems if you can just kill enough people.

[rogerr]

I have read Pierrepoint's book and he came to the conclusion that hanging did not deter people from commiting murder.

[milliezoe]

It would deter me rogerr

[joggerjayne]

It would deter me too !

(more than 8 years in prison, and a new life paid for by the rest of us)

[milliezoe]

Exactly joggerjayne ask your MP at election time to vote for it !!!

[ummmm]

Well I would like to read their case files before I judge what their punishment should have been.

[jno]

Quite so, Zeuhl.

Pierrepoint's right, too. America executes people but is their murder rate less than ours? People aren't deterred by the severity of punishment but by the certainty of it. In other words, they don't think they'll get caught. (Or they don't stop and think about it at all.) Does anyone really think it would somehow have deterred Venables?

[milliezoe]

In the bible is an eye for an eye etc they murded an innocent child and therefore should pay the ultimate penalty ummmm