bring back hanging ?
 

should we in britain bring back the death penalty for the likes of huntley and those six scumbags who murdered the 16 year old girl..?

personally i say yes, no death row, after sentence, take em out the back & do the business.....

I'd be up for the job of hangman.

No. One wrong conviction and the whole system is brought into disrepute. Time and time again the authorities have been shown to:

Not be trustworthy
Fabricate evidence
Get it wrong.

Bang up 'em up for life (meaning for the rest of their natural days) and make them work to pay for the pivilige of guaranteed accomodation, food and welfare. Execution is state-licensed murder/revenge. It can be abused. It is not justice.

if they dont admit it and theres incontravertible (good) evidence, string em up and save a fortune

Having said that...woman I know has just discovered that her stepfather has been abusing her daughter when he and his wife (the mother of the woman in question) were babysitting. :flame:

The little girl is 5.

Sick stuff.

Don't get me started... I sit on Social services panels and listen to crap like this...I also listen to the victims.
These people are people they love and trust and do not want "stringing up" no matter how much WE loath them.

Life should mean life...the whole system is about politics and money...TWPD has a point about working to pay for their keep.
Sometimes tho I just wonder how these guys would fair if they stuck em in a room on their own with a gang of mothers. Women can be vicious when their motherly instincts kick in.:devil:

personally i think murdering/rapist scumbags ought to have the same done to them...but its all to open to abuse of the system.
So, yeah lock em up for life but make it LIFE, melt the key down, no perole, cable sodding tv, ps2's etc.....ahem.

If you take someones life then you don't deserve rights

Sorry..rant over

Ant

Spot on.

By the way, does anybody else see the irony of discussing this type of topic on a forum called "idle chat"?

Women can be pretty vicious without a motherly instinct driving them. But that's a discussion for another time.

I'm not a parent - I daresay I would be baying for blood if I was and it were my child.

that may have been the case years ago when capital punishment was law, however, now we have the technology (in particular, dna) which can prove the guilt of the criminal....