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Could you be a hangman?

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jake-the-peg | 17:11 Fri 26th Jun 2009 | Society & Culture
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On last nights program on homelessness the actor Bruce Jones, in a rather emotional state, offered to be the nations executioner for all the paedophiles and murderers.

But the difference between an executioner and a vigilante is that an executioner doesn't get to choose who he kills.

So could you do it? even if you didn't think that person deserved it.

A battered wife that killed her husband?
A pensioner that shot a burglar?
A man who killed his daughters rapist?
Someone you thought was innocent?

And if you could , what is the ethical difference between you and a soldier committing genocide on the orders of his superiors?
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Barmaid...you are the expert, but as well as a prosecution, there is always a defence counsel and the verdict is based on BOTH court performances and I cannot think, at the moment, a better system.

But that isn't the point.........if we had the death penalty then the sentence would have to be carried out.......by the hangman.

This is all hypothetical as we don't have the death penalty.

Youn have a strong point in which you say not to go into an occupation that would test your principles.

Just got back from walking the mutts: let's get stuck in!

Barmaid:

"What do you think the jury are going to do?"

Duh...acquit, that's what they'd do. Reasonable doubt and all that??? Why? Because if, as you claim the first guy's DNA "will be all over her". Fine...and the one who murdered her? Unless he was a sniper who took her out, don't you think there's just a smidgen of a chance that HIS DNA might also be "all over her" as well?

That's for starters! Bring it on!!!
barmaid....�50?.......I can't think of anything at the moment.

Make it �500.
Barmaid.......I would give YOU �500 to take you to dinner, place of your choice.....no strings.

Would you take it?
sqad = cheapskate
craft......LOL.....I couldn't afford you.......not that you wouldn't be worth it............LOL
sqad, I've said it before.... tart!
sara...I wondered how long it would take you to take the bait? LOL

OK...�500 to you for dinner with sqad?
sara...ignore him.....begging is so unattractive...
craft......let sara answer for herself.
Sqad you would not need to pay me to take me to dinner!!!

Paraffin - as for you "duh" comment, frankly I would not be so sure. I have seen juries do some absolutely bizarre things (I used to sit with a CJ as his notetaker before I came to the bar - he had MND. On one case which involved a number of charges the jury returned, quite frankly, ludicrous verdicts - the Judge and both advocates were totally perplexed as to their findings). If you have a situation where a man whose DNA is found on the body of a murdered woman (and in fairness the real murderer's DNA may not always be present, particularly if the body has been stripped and cleaned and is not found for some time), he happens to have a past which includes violence towards women and possible sexual deviancy and he was the last person to see her alive, well frankly, the Jury may feel sure. It's a hypothesis, nothing more - but I not sure that the "duh" comment is warranted. It COULD happen.

The Jury were sure on Jill Dando's case. The Jury were sure on Sally Clarke's case. The Jury have been sure on a whole load of cases since reviewed. In all those cases there was another explanation for the evidence presented to the jury on which they convicted. OK in those two cases, the scientific evidence has since been judged by the CA to be wrong.

That is why I cannot condone the death penalty.
Barmaid...there isn't a death penalty.

Incidentally I agree, I do not like the death penalty for the reasons that you have given BUT the question implied that the death penalty was still here and the answers were based on that premise.

Dinner date....OK LOL
lol I know there is not a death penalty!!

OK - dinner - you name date and place (preferably UK, due to expired passport!)
Barmaid.....LOL......is that with or without the �500?......LOL

It would be a good evening.....believe me LOL
sqad, tart!!! ;o)
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sara....so is that a "YES"..LOL?
no!
I already said - you don't need to pay me to take me out to dinner, I am NOT that sort of girl!!!!!!!!!!!!
sara......LOL LOL

Let me get this straight....you would pay money to go on a dating agency, meet some no hoper, rather than an envelope with �500 in it and an evening with someone, I agree that you have never met, but have communicated with and developed some empathy with, an interesting dinner date?

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