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Death penalty poll
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I was tempted by the third option and I would have voted that way if a life sentence meant what it said. Unfortunately it doesn't. Yobs who are quick to put the knife in don't expect to spend much time behind bars and they're probably right. 
This is not a new problem. Here are some cases I remember well from about thirty years ago. Start by looking up Operation Julie. I can't find the exact figures but I think three culprits were jailed for a total of 25 years. So there's your yardstick. Big time drug dealers get about eight years each but ---
At about the same time, some scumbag was convicted of the murder of his girlfriends baby. The sentence was nine months.
What was the judge thinking here; that he ought to be out in time to kill the next one? 
But it gets worse. Hot on the heels of this case, two more scumbags murdered their own grandmother to get her pension book - and got a paltry six months each! You really couldn't make it up. Those three weren't worth their weight in dog food. Maybe fertilizer though ---
PS: Who said this: "You get thirty years for robbing a train. You get ten for murder now that's insane."
This is not a new problem. Here are some cases I remember well from about thirty years ago. Start by looking up Operation Julie. I can't find the exact figures but I think three culprits were jailed for a total of 25 years. So there's your yardstick. Big time drug dealers get about eight years each but ---
At about the same time, some scumbag was convicted of the murder of his girlfriends baby. The sentence was nine months.
What was the judge thinking here; that he ought to be out in time to kill the next one? But it gets worse. Hot on the heels of this case, two more scumbags murdered their own grandmother to get her pension book - and got a paltry six months each! You really couldn't make it up. Those three weren't worth their weight in dog food. Maybe fertilizer though ---PS: Who said this: "You get thirty years for robbing a train. You get ten for murder now that's insane."
FEAR is the answer, if I was the home secretary I would set a date eg 1st November 08
carrrying a knife or gun 20 years
murder by knife or gun, the death penalty.
its the only answer, you must put the fear of god into these people
plenty of publicity on the run up to 1st Nov. then bosh
nobody can convince me that it wouldnt drastically reduce the amount of stabbing/ murders. It may take a little while but I think people will get the message...... FEAR
carrrying a knife or gun 20 years
murder by knife or gun, the death penalty.
its the only answer, you must put the fear of god into these people
plenty of publicity on the run up to 1st Nov. then bosh
nobody can convince me that it wouldnt drastically reduce the amount of stabbing/ murders. It may take a little while but I think people will get the message...... FEAR
Legally, yes.
Therefore the conditions set out in answer no.1, would mean that he would be dead today. Having been executed for commiting the act of murder.
If the criteria for the death penalty were single murder then he should have been executed.
The fact is though that the death penalty would not have been imposed for his crime would it
At the other end of the scale, Ted Bundy fried for his crimes (or broiled actually I think would be more accurate) and if you asked me the same question about him the answer would have been far more emphatic ... And I would have happily plugged him in, switched him on and paid the electricity bill
MW
The fact is though that the death penalty would not have been imposed for his crime would it
At the other end of the scale, Ted Bundy fried for his crimes (or broiled actually I think would be more accurate) and if you asked me the same question about him the answer would have been far more emphatic ... And I would have happily plugged him in, switched him on and paid the electricity bill
MW
At the other end of the scale, Ted Bundy fried for his crimes (or broiled actually I think would be more accurate) and if you asked me the same question about him the answer would have been far more emphatic ... And I would have happily plugged him in, switched him on and paid the electricity bill
Add Ian Huntley to the list..........
If the criteria for the death penalty were single murder then he should have been executed.
The fact is though that the death penalty would not have been imposed for his crime would it
The crime of murder?
Have you been on the sauce all day today mega?
I agree completely.
On one condition.
Should it later be proven that they were completely innocent, and therefore wrongly convicted. Then the members of the jury should also be executed, for sending an innocent man to his death.
plus the coppers that stiched people up, now retired on a BIG pension
Your logic is a little suspect here buddy.
Assuming no corruption, of course, a jury convicts or acquits on the evidence presented (and the ability of the barrister presenting it!).
Miscarriages of justice occur as a result of poor evidence in the main and not the jury's misinterpretation of that evidence.
MW
I was being facetious. Countering a ridiculous statement with an equally ridiculous statement.
But you hit the nail on the head here
