Nicely put and explained,TORTUGA .You have summed up Prison life very well.A certain con on my Wing got realeased before Xmas,having been fitted up by a Policeman and his brother.The system isn't infalable and mistakes do happen.Being killed is a bit rough though for someone elses mistake.As you say though,some times the evidence is TOTALLY irrefutable(witnesses,dna,etc) and the crime so vile that i sometimes think,go on then just for him!!Unfortuneately,it can't work like that.So we have to make do with the system we have!

Defo No. No one has the right to end Human life no mater what crime has been committed. Id say bring back hard labour and make prison a hard place pretty much like hell on earth. Id be happy knowing that that person is going to die after many long years in a hell hole of a prison and also having to live with what they had done. Everyone has remorse

not true

I guess you were expecting the spanish inquisition.. ;)

NO-ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!!:D

A man is working on the buses in the US collecting tickets.

He rings the bell for the driver to set off when there's a woman half getting on the bus. The driver sets off, the woman falls from the bus and is killed. At the trial the man is sent down for murder and seeing as it's Texas he's sent to the electric chair. On the day of his execution he's sat in the chair and the executioner grants him a final wish.

"Well" says the man, "is that your packed lunch over there?" "Yes" answers the executioner. "Can I have that green banana?"

The executioner gives the man his green banana and waits till he's eaten it.

When the man's finished, the executioner flips the switch sending hundreds of thousands of volts through the man. When the smoke clears the man is still alive. The executioner can't believe it.

"Can I go?" the man asks. "I suppose so" says the executioner, "that's never happened before."



The man leaves and eventually gets a job back on the buses selling tickets.

Again he rings the bell for the driver to go when people are still getting on. A man falls under the wheels and is killed. The bloke is sent down for murder again and sent to the electric chair. The executioner is determined to do it right this time so rigs the chair up to the electric supply for the whole of Texas.

The bloke is again sat in the chair. "What is your final wish?" asks the
executioner. "Can I have that green banana in your packed lunch ?"
says the condemned man. The executioner sighs and reluctantly gives up his banana.

The bloke eats the banana all up and the executioner flips the switch.

Millions of volts course through the chair blacking out Texas. When the
smoke clears the man is still sat there smiling in the chair. The executioner can't believe it and lets the man go.


Well, would you believe, the bloke gets his job back on the buses. Once
again he rings the bell whilst passengers are still getting on, this time killing three of them. He is sent to the electric chair again. The
executioner rigs up all United States electricity supply to The chair,
determined to get his man this time. The man sits down in the chair smiling.

"What's your final wish ?" asks the executioner. "Well" says the man, "Can I have that green banana out of your packed lunch.?" The executioner hands over his banana and the man eats it all, skin included. The executioner pulls the handle and a brazillion volts go through the chair. When the smoke rises the man is still sat there alive without even a burn mark.

"I give up" says the executioner, "I don't understand how you can still be alive after all that?". He stroked his chin. "It's something to do with that green banana isn't it" he asked.



Nahh" said the bloke,



"I'm just a really bad conductor"

:lol::lol::lol: Well worth the wait.

Of course you could always use crucifixion....

"One cross each, line on the left"

And possibly the end to a very interesting thread...:P

You didn't expect us boys to behave for more than five minutes did you?..............:lol::lol:

I say "YES" but only if there is no single element of doubt.

I would prefer to see them try and make a run for it in a nice open field so that I can shoot them to bring them down then perhaps a nice high velocity 22 round in each joint, to prolong things a little , then a single shot to the head, a 155mm round should do the job!

Or as Uncle Porry said, once convicted take them out the back and kill them ASAP.

Your talking about Chimera. One person with two DNA profiles.

Problem with life at the moment is its you and I paying for it. Plus these guys probably have a better life inside than we have out here. If they had NO perks and had to do hard labour then maybe its a fitting punishment. However, assuming incontravertible evidence, the death penalty is a punishment that fits the crime. Its not about deterrent factor or revenge, its a fitting punishment.

But who does the death penalty actually punish? We're more than likely talking about a lethal injection, no horror, just lie down and go to sleep, no suffering.

What's worse, a life in prison full of other nutters, watching over your shoulder for the rest of your life, or a nice clean injection? If life meant life, it would be a far worse punishment than giving someone these easy way out. Let these people suffer until the end of their days. Who reallly suffers when someone is executed? Only the people left behind.

I would just like to ask the question of those people that support the death penalty whether, since they think that killing people in the name of justice is such a good idea, they would be prepared to do the killing themselves?

Would you be the executioner. Actually pull the switch, drop the noose, inject the poison or whatever? Would you be the person who would cut the body down and deal with it, or would you prefer to have somebody else get blood on their hands in a vain attempt to make all the nasty people in the world go away?

Or 3 Tomahawk criuse missiles!!!!

Jools

It won't make all the nasty people go away but if someone commits cold blooded murder or defiles a child , then if they are executed it makes sure they can never do it again. And no I couldn't do it but there will allways be someone who is prepared to do it and won't lose any sleep.

Anyone on here seen the bodies of, or been given graphic details of a multiple stabbing murder of two little boys?

Does the evil being who can do such a thing deserve to breathe the air that those two little boys never will?