Should public executions be brought back to Britain?
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Should the death penalty be reinstated to Britain for criminals who have been prosecuted and have been judged as guilty in law?
What type of criminal or their length of sentence time should be at risk of execution and how should it be done?
If it is deemed of public interest should it be televised for the viewing public as to deter other criminal behavior? Was it ever a good idea to get rid of executions in the first place? Or is prison the answer after all?
"Some say that broadcasting an execution would offer an unbalanced picture — making the condemned seem helpless and sympathetic, while keeping the victims of the crime out of the picture. But this is beside the point: the defendant is being executed precisely because a jury found that his crimes were so heinous that he deserved to die."
"There is a dramatic difference between reading or hearing of such an event and observing it through image and sound. (This is obvious to those who saw the footage of Saddam Hussein’s hanging in 2006 or the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the protests in Iran in 2009.) We are not calling for opening executions completely to the public — conducting them before a live crowd — but rather for broadcasting them live or recording them for future release, on the Web or TV."
On a lighter note, should troublesome Digital Spy users be executed in from of a live DS audience? :eek:
Andy Sugden and Rufus "The" Hound might agree
What type of criminal or their length of sentence time should be at risk of execution and how should it be done?
If it is deemed of public interest should it be televised for the viewing public as to deter other criminal behavior? Was it ever a good idea to get rid of executions in the first place? Or is prison the answer after all?
"Some say that broadcasting an execution would offer an unbalanced picture — making the condemned seem helpless and sympathetic, while keeping the victims of the crime out of the picture. But this is beside the point: the defendant is being executed precisely because a jury found that his crimes were so heinous that he deserved to die."
"There is a dramatic difference between reading or hearing of such an event and observing it through image and sound. (This is obvious to those who saw the footage of Saddam Hussein’s hanging in 2006 or the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the protests in Iran in 2009.) We are not calling for opening executions completely to the public — conducting them before a live crowd — but rather for broadcasting them live or recording them for future release, on the Web or TV."
On a lighter note, should troublesome Digital Spy users be executed in from of a live DS audience? :eek:
Andy Sugden and Rufus "The" Hound might agree
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I have a question.
You know in some countries they give people the lethal injection?
Well do they administer the same drugs which they use when they put a cat or a dog down?
My answer is a categorical no. Never, ever, ever. Not the death penalty, not in public....just no. On all counts.
Those drugs must be expensive..theres two lots,one to put them out and another to finish them off..wouldnt it be cheaper to just drown them in these times of economic austerity
Damn spoilsport ! !
Stupid idea.
Now that is very likely :eek::eek:
That or burn them and feed their bodies to the starving.
Incidentally, the last public hanging in this country was in 1868. By that time they were attracting so many people who brought packed lunches and sat around the area for the day (especially in the Summer), that the government decided they had become no more than a cheap form of entertainment for the masses, and so stopped them.
Well brady wants to ie....just give him enough rope and he,ll hang himself ( pun very much intended )
I think someone is back from a ban ?
Booo!
You could make a tidy profit with a chuck wagon set up outside the Scrubs or something for public hangings. Although the guillotine would be better.
Finally, a question on this thread that we can answer with "Yes".
Let's be honest, it would be exactly the same nowadays.
I'm pretty sure that for the later public executions in the 1850's and 60's, special excursion trains were laid on.
Or give them to tesco who will turn them into beefburgers.
Seeing as we are the generations brought up on violent films and video games we would probably find it far too tame.
i misread that at first it looked like bum and not burn...gonna say..that really is an appropriatepunishment
huntleyburgers