O/T Why should this b.astard breathe again?

[KerrAvon]

The old 'they might be innocent' line comes out again and again.

How many innocent people are murdered by killers let out of prison who go and do it again? What about their right to life?

Far more than miscarriages of justice, I would think.

It wouldn't have to cost more. Convict and get the job done.

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.

[Townerslovechild]

This man is pure evil,probably a pyschopath,and since the death penalty was no longer an option,there have many other people equally as evil,and everytime an awful case like this comes up,the option of "A life for a life" seems like a good idea to many people.
However as Kerr says,it only takes one person to be executed who was innocent,to make the whole argument to be pointless,and I`m sure over the last 60 years or so,if we did have the death penalty,many people would be now in the ground who shouldn`t be.
I would say that in cases like this,this monster should be made to have an awful existance for the rest of his life,maybe there should be special prison rules for these people,basically his life should be hell,that would be a more fitting punishment.

[sota]

They should have strapped him to a sack barrow and wheeled him in to hear the impact statement. Then they should have wheeled him into the car park and set him and the barrow on fire.

[Shark27]

I would support the death penalty in cases like this. Also for Huntley, Bridger, Whiting etc.

I wouldn?t support it in a case like Lucy Letby.

If it was looked on individual cases, I?m not sure how they could get it wrong these days.

[sota]

A murderer was executed in South Carolina last week. They gave him a choice of injection, electric chair or firing squad. He chose the latter. They pinned a piece of paper with a target drawn on it on his chest and 3 prison officers shot him through it with exploding bullets.

[Brin]

A murderer was executed in South Carolina last week. They gave him a choice of injection, electric chair or firing squad. He chose the latter. They pinned a piece of paper with a target drawn on it on his chest and 3 prison officers shot him through it with exploding bullets.

Now then fella, yes I read about that case. Look how long he was on death row though, 24 years! Conclusive proof showed he had battered his ex girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat. How many batterings did it take before they finally died?

Why did it take all that time for the sentence of death to be carried out....oh yes the right to appeal. The gross miscarriage of justice is that it took over two decades to carry out the sentence. Shame on the US appeal process.

[sota]

I agree Brin, but he spent that time fearing that one day he would get the tap on the shoulder and eventually he did.

[Brin]

I agree Brin, but he spent that time fearing that one day he would get the tap on the shoulder and eventually he did.

and rightly so.

[frogmiller]

I agree Brin, but he spent that time fearing that one day he would get the tap on the shoulder and eventually he did.

And at the same time with hope that they wouldn?t carry it through.

Normally it?s the hope that kills you.

[Eternal Optimist]

As millers, we've all been there.