Blogcritics Comments on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Comment by satanssixthson on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:58:39 EDT

3 — January 15, 2006 @ 13:08PM — Dave Nalle [URL] "Before the UK even considers the death penalty a far more effective measure would be the complete legalization of handguns for private ownership and the decriminalization of their use for the defense of self and property. As demonstrated again and again that would be a far more effective deterrent than the death penalty" An armed society is a polite society. Dave erm, no its not! an armed society is called America! highest gun crime rates in the world. also the reason we got rid of handguns is cos a school load of toddlers got shot up by some sicko with a load of handguns! Bring back death penalty!

Comment by DRP on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 26 May 2008 13:46:48 EDT

I THINK THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE UK IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT,HOW CAN A FEW YEARS IN A CUSHY JAIL CELL BE PUNISHMENT FOR THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN / WOMAN,THE RAPE AND MURDER OF A BABY,OR THE ROBBING AND MURDER OF A WORLD WAR 2 WAR HERO PENSIONER,REGARDLESS OF ALL OTHER ARGUEMENTS,ONCE YOU KILL A MURDERER BY CAPITAL PUNISHMENT,HE OR SHE CAN NO LONGER KILL ANYONE ELSE!WITH DNA ADVANCES TODAY IN 2008,EVIDENCE IS FINAL AND 100% CORRECT.

Comment by wildnfree on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sun, 25 May 2008 01:20:30 EDT

Dave, here in the US most death penalty cases cost more than life sentences because of the sheer amount of legal fees that are run up in multiple appeals, stay requests, etc. I agree that the UK needs to restore the right of self-defense. While I no longer believe in the death penalty, I do believe in having the right to defend ones life, family, and livelihood with any tool necessary. A person whom has been convicted and sentenced to death might be innocent, but a criminal who killed by his intended victim is 100% guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. STM, You speak of the large number of guns in the US as being responsible for our murder rate but you need to be aware that the highest murder rates here are in the places where guns are banned, Washington DC for example. I do agree with you about the DNA evidence not being as reliable as claimed. Plus there have been some cases here, of outright fraudulent reports from some "crime" labs. Due to the corruption of the courts it is still possible for an innocent man to be convicted. Life without parole? Yes. Death penalty? Only if it occurs during the commission of a crime. Self defense is not vengeance. But the threat of it is a far greater deterrent to crime than ANY penalties imposed by the legal system. Of course if all of our countries would give up the ridiculous war on drugs...we might have some room to put the real criminals in prison.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sat, 24 May 2008 17:30:21 EDT

Red, capital (sorry!) punishment simply doesn't work as a deterrent. If you know anything about child molesters and paedophiles, you'll be aware that this is especially true in their case. Statistically, ALL paedophiles were themselves molested as children. They simply can't help themselves.

Comment by RedSkyAtNight on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sat, 24 May 2008 14:38:16 EDT

I say do it. Bring back hanging or, even better, firing squad. That way, people would think twice about coldblooded murder or becoming a paedophile, don't you think? And in our age of genetic profiling (people have been arrested in America on the basis of DNA found on a roach from a cannabis joint) it is far more unlikely that innocent people will die as a result of bringing back the death penalty (as a Marxist and Feminist, I hesitate to use the term 'capital punishment' for obvious reasons).

Comment by Faheem on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sun, 11 May 2008 05:40:30 EDT

I'd say bring back the death penalty but only for open/shut cases. Like this austrian bloke who done that to his daughter. If there is even a 1% chance that the perpertrator is not guilty then prison for him/her. I actually prefer corporal punishment especially for those fuckers who attack firemen/policemen/paramedics when they are responding to a call. What manner of moron attacks people whose only thought is to save them? I am against the death penalty in most instances but the option should be there - not as a deterrent but as a swift punishment which rids the world of a murderer, rapist, paedophile (especially the latter). 100% guilty people should be executed WITHOUT appeal. Vigilante Justice sounds appealing but cannot be applied fairly? Who decides what case is worthy of death (murder fair enough, rape, fair enough, honour killings? HELL NO) different cultures have different thoughts on what constitutes as a legal retribution. Barbaric? Yes Necessary? Sadly Yes I have no problem with people against the death penalty, in fact I envy you for your capacity for mercy. But it is something I can never accept until there is a time when a year can go by, without murder, without rape, without paedophilia, all these things. Unfortunately I don't see it happening

Comment by Andy on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:16:27 EDT

Kill the murderess and rapists etc and free-up prison space for the other scum that deserve to be in cells for years, house burglars etc, every crime committed in the UK, the guilty don't get enough punishment.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:00:26 EDT

I'm from the UK originally, but live in America now. I just surfed to the Bristol Evening Post's website and read the story. The report doesn't clarify, but I can tell you here and now that if the guy only got four years, then he was convicted of manslaughter, not murder. A murder conviction results in a mandatory life sentence. Mitigating circumstances in this case appear to be that the killer has apparently shown genuine remorse, and that the victim appears to have contributed to his own demise having returned to the fracas rather than simply walking away from trouble, which he had the opportunity to do. I agree with you, however, that four years (presumably, since the killing happened in 2006, he's already served two of those on remand) is a highly inappropriate sentence for a homicide under those circumstances. The death penalty for manslaughter is just as inappropriate, though. Whether the killer, or the victim, or both were chavs (it sounds as though they were) is irrelevant.

Comment by Buster on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:29:50 EDT

If ur from the uk have u read the bristol evening post today a man got 4 years for murder and he's only going to do 2 out of that.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:19:41 EDT

You seem very anxious to hang people, Buster. Tell me - exactly how far down the food chain do you want to go with this? Should we hang someone who murders with premeditation, or in a fit of temper? Someone who rapes, or who commits a sexual assault? Someone who molests a child, or who solicits one online? Who gets to decide in your Utopian bloodbath?

Comment by BuStEr on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:03:07 EDT

I THINK THAT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS SO FUCKED UP THEY SHOULD BRING THE DEATH PENALTY BACK BECAUSE MURDERERS, RAPISTS, PEODAPHILES ETC. SHOULD ALL BE HUNG FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, NOT A SELECTED NUMBER OF YEARS IN PRISON, THEN TO BE RELEASED TO CONTINUE COMMITTING FURTHER CRIMES

Comment by STM on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:45:45 EST

The Nothmen cometh ... From an unexthplored and obthcure part of the worlk? And we don't need no amusement parks and fun fairs down here Doc, you know that. It's just one long knees-up (that's a party, for you Americans) anyway. See Doc, that's where you blokes made the big mistake. You sent all the party people to the BEST place, while all you lot stayed on that miserable piece of rock in the North Sea (not for nothing is it shaped like a witch taking a dump). You thought you were punishing us, and now you're all falling over yourselves to get in here. The wheel turns full circle. However, none of you will ever be forgiven for stealing the corner of our flag and using it as your own. A pack of opportunistic bastards if ever there were one ...

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:40 EST

I think the Nothmen come from an obscure and unexplored corner of the Workd. And if the Great Southern Land has no peer, what do you Aussies do for amusement arcades and funfairs?

Comment by STM on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:29:33 EST

What's a Nothman BTW Doc? Does he mean a Norseman by any chance?? How will that impact the sensibilities of our resident Mexican viking, whose ancestors' boat took a wrong turn at iceland and ended up in Guadalajara?? Or even me, when the boat from Northumbria washed up on the Great Southern Land (that has no peer)?? Those Nothmen ... they can't be trusted y'know. Always been troublemakers, and always will be.

Comment by STM on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:59:56 EST

No James, the UK DOESN'T need the death penalty.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:58:13 EST

Well, James, I realise 'Maja' can't spell, can't think straight, can't construct a sentence intelligible to any mortal man and apparently abides by a moral code which died out in the fourteenth century, but surely your recommendation is a little extreme...

Comment by James on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:53:28 EST

The UK NEEDS the death penalty.

Comment by maja on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:42:40 EST

dear pepole of the workd,we are all humain we live and die naturaly. but to be killed by a nothman was it worth it NO.A person whatever reason it may be they are not to kill. there is no revange not by justice.no human being should decide abaut a nother life.BUT when sombodys life has been taken and brutally murder WE as a nation of this part of the world in the UK should decide that there will be nobody anymore who will comme aut of gale to kill again.WHAT JUSTICE HAVE WE GOT,NONE. THE COURT OF ENGLAN OF UNITED KINGDOM GIVES THE RIGHT TO KILL THEIR OWN PEPOLE BY GIVING THE KILLERS THE WRIGHT TO LIVE.and to do it and kill again.DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE ON JUSTICE OF THIER OWN WILL OF THE FAMELY.

Comment by STM on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:49:11 EST

Clav: "Also, when, where and with whom we're next gonna get laid..." What about the REALLY important stuff: the price of beer/smokes, rising petrol prices and the risk of higher mortgage interest rates. You can win an election down under on that stuff.

Comment by A Voice of Sanity on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:32:15 EST

"Fact is, there often isn't any DNA evidence, and you know as well as I do the number of cases (homicide and otherwise) that come to court with the prosecution relying heavily or entirely on circumstantial evidence (the Laci Peterson case, for instance)". In this case there was no evidence for the guilt of Peterson. No evidence, direct or circumstantial. He was convicted solely on public outrage whipped up by the media to sell more rubbish. All of the actual evidence went to his innocence.

Comment by Dave Nalle on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:07:10 EST

According to a recent poll the War actually ranks about 4th in importance, down with immigration reform. The economy, national security and jobs rank at the top. Dave

Comment by Clavos on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:47:06 EST

"Based upon what I hear on the news the only things that matter to Americans are the "war" in Iraq and the price of shares." Also, when, where and with whom we're next gonna get laid...

Comment by e-okul on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:29:45 EST

e-okul hi, Jamal is being hysterical and, if you form your picture of the world solely based on media reports, you're going to have a very wacky view of the world. Based upon what I hear on the news the only things that matter to Americans are the "war" in Iraq and the price of shares.

Comment by Clavos on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:51:18 EST

I think no one any longer considers it to be a deterrent. But then, neither is imprisonment. People bent on criminal acts rarely stop to consider the consequences.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Bring Back The UK Death Penalty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:37:32 EST

Perhaps we should listen to the people who actually have to do it... Albert Pierrepoint, the last Chief Executioner of Britain, became an opponent of the death penalty, arguing that it existed out of a base desire for revenge and didn't benefit society in any way. His epiphany, according to his autobiography, was the time he ended up having to hang a mate of his who'd killed his girlfriend in a jealous rage. He knew that his friend, and indeed most of his 'clients', hadn't acted with premeditation and therefore the death penalty was no kind of deterrent.