Originally Posted by
KerrAvon
Of course the 'they might be innocent line' comes out on these threads as do the inevitable sadistic fantasies that we saw yesterday evening. This thread isn't only open to those who favour the death penalty.
Since, you raise the issue, let's have a little game. I'll give you the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Bridgewater Four and Sally Clark. That's 15 people who would probably have hung, (and hung quickly in your world) in the last 50 years or so. If you chuck in Stefan Kiszko, who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and manslaughter of a child and that's 16.
How many innocent people murdered by killers who were let out of prison can you come up with in the same period?
And what sort of weird calculus are you applying - 'we should risk letting innocent people die on the gallows on the off chance that it might stop innocent people being murdered'? That's positively bizzarre thinking.
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