hmm sure I heard that it was for child porn not long after it happened.
To be honest capital punishment is just too difficult to work in a just way. The americans end up with prisoners sitting on death row for years on end while they go through all the appeals etc.
It is no cheaper than giving them life because housing death row inmates and dealing with the legal challenges is more of a problem. Death row prisoners are also notoriously dangerous to manage because they don't have any thing worse to fear.
Personally I couldn't live with the thought of sending someone to death and it possibly being the wrong decision. Imagine if we had not abolished the death penalty back in the sixties, what would have happened to the birmingham six??? Or Stephen Downing??
Awful about Jon Venables, but the answer is NOT a knee jerk reaction and bringing back capital punishment. It has been proven time and time again that is it does not put people off - has made no difference to the numbers in jails in the US counties where it is still "used". On the basis that our judical systems makes mistakes, I am not prepared to vote for a system where this could happen. Look at the last 2 people hung in this country - Ruth Ellis - murdered her unfaithful lover - would CP have stopped that? and Derek Bentley - hung because he was the right age, even though he was mentally incapicatated.
Of course!!!! castrations, good idea. Thats the way forward!
on a cost basis then getting them to the chair, injection ASAP would seem the best option however leaving them a few years give them time to reflect and for any apppeals to take place..the prisoner executed last week had been on death row for 25 years! I honestly cannot see how that is the way to go, as opposed to life meaning life. The amount of money his endless appeals would have cost would have been paid by the tax payer.
I do think life should mean life, with no chance of parole. I don't agree with capital punishment as so many are still being released, decades later for crimes they did not commit. I also don't agree with it as most of these people, Ian Huntley etc, would rather die and maintain control, than live as captives. I would rather see them endure captivity for a very long time, where they have no control at all.
on a cost basis then getting them to the chair, injection ASAP would seem the best option however leaving them a few years give them time to reflect and for any apppeals to take place..
Oh well guess in a few years we will be a muslim country and they will stone these sort of people to death the day after....
Yeah on a cost basis we'd be better off hanging them on the day the sentance is passed. Problem is we do that and then some joker comes along and discovers DNA profiling or whatever...... and then we discover that the guy isn't guilty afterall....... so an appeal is launched........ but oops too late he's already six feet under........
Not sure I'd be too happy living in a country where the state murders 10 year old offenders.
And in this instance, I wonder, as a 10 year old entering the penal system, whether he was abused within that system, and whether such abuse has created the adult we now see.
He was (if I recall correctly) abused before he entered the system, and had a life that no one would consider ideal for a child.
also innocent people being executed, this has not occurred in modern day america, any one wrongly convicted has been pardoned etc before being executed.
yes the lawyers provided are not great however one on death row they get very good assistance in their appeals.
i would say its highly unlikely in a civilised modern country for a wrongly executed person to occur.
Erm, but the fact people have been wrongly convicted goes to show the room for error.
I would not expect a civilised society to execute anyone.
i would say its highly unlikely in a civilised modern country for a wrongly executed person to occur.