Bring Back Capital Punishment, Britain!
Thursday July 28, 2005
Great Britain used to have 200 offences for which you could be hanged (in the early-mid 19th century), from stealing a gentleman’s handkerchief, to the gravest offence of treason. But Britain banned the death penalty in 1971 (except for treason), but every so often the House votes on the death penalty and whether to renistate it.
As I grew up I thought that this was a good thing, the death penalty might be given in cases where the condemned is innocent for example. It would be a travesty of justice to execute an innocent, but less so to incarcerate them and then later find them innocent. But I have to say, given the recent bombings in London, I want to say it clearly, terrorists who kill innocents in such a horrible manner, or those involved in making the bombs, should be eligible for the death penalty. Publicly. Placing these animals in prison where they can affect others is a bad solution, and only likely to infect a slice of British society that already hate the Government and country.
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Comment 1
I think the only problem with the death penalty anywhere is that it isn’t applied publicly. Also I think it should be done quickly. While governor in 1995, Bush signed a bill designed to speed the pace of executions. I can’t find the bill number to look up though to see exactly what it says- Maybe something like Ron White from the Blue Collar Comedy tour says?
I’m from Texas and in Texas we have the death penalty and we use it. That’s right, if you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That’s our policy. Right now there’s a bill in the Texas legislature that would speed up the execution process of those convicted of a heinous crime with more than three credible witnesses. If more than three people saw you do what you did you don’t sit on death row for 15 years Jack, you go straight to the front of the line. Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty. My state’s puttin in an express lane.
Sounds fair to me, but do it on the courthouse lawn.
Diane commented on July 28th, 2005
Comment 2
No secret here. Public, brutal and very, very messy. Partly, as I have said elsewhere pour encourager les autres and partly so that society at large can experience the brutal cost of vengeance. Clean, antiseptic, virtually anonymous executions are just a waste of time and effort. Let us see that the lives that these monsters took are truly worth more than the lives of these pitiful vermin by exacting a terrible price from them.
Public flaying would be a start…
After the flaying, tarring, feathering and a touch of the ole auto da fe practice of burning at the stake (the reason for the tar and feathers, you see), after which the remains should be left hanging in public until they completely rot away…
String the remains along public roadways, etc., with signs attesting to the offenses. This country’s “cruel and unusual” Constitutional ban wouldn’t need to be applied in Britain, and even here, as much as Justices on the Los Supremos Communistas have turned to foreign legal practices of late, it should fly… Heck, just point out that it’s a kinder, gentler death than Saddam woulda given folks who did that in Iraq or the clerics in Iran would hand down and you’d be in like Flynn, eh?
David commented on July 29th, 2005
Comment 3 [ Administrator Reply ]
Well only as recently as 1869 did Britain do away with hanging drawing and quartering for traitors. I say recently, but of course that’s 146 yrs ago. Nevertheless, Britain STILL has the death penalty for treason and piracy on the high seas, just not for murder and standard capital crimes.
rich commented on July 29th, 2005
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