Capital Punishment

Riverwalk and HPQ.
They will NEVER get over it,they may not even get through their loss.
They don`t HAVE to choose either.
But ,when the murderer is free to walk the earth,i don``t think i could cope.
An eye for an eye imo,turn the other cheek ?,not in my opinion.

i don't agree with the death sentence, i think anybody who deserves this should be made to stay in prison for the rest of there life and to suffer every day for what they have done, the death sentence to me would be the easy way out for some of them.

albertina

My daughter and her husband have taken in the two children of a friend of the family. Their mother was murdered by their father. She took the children to school and returned home. Her husband was there. She told him she had met someone else and wanted a divorce. She had put up with years of violence and intimidation and had had enough.
He took a kitchen knife and killed her. He got 19 years. 19 years for the life of his wife. He destroyed her life and that of her children. 19 years is just not long enough for such a callous and dreadful crime.
Hanging ? No. I am old enough to remember the days when people were hanged and it felt awful. Timothy Evans was enough on his own to stop it.

Your daughter and her family have done a very good thing Albertina.

I know of another case where a man murdered his wife and their child was brought up by the wife's brother and wife as part of their own family. His adoption was successful, but perhaps because he was very young at the time of the tragedy.

i hope it works out well for your daughter and husband.

All sentencing should be tougher. Life should mean life and no privileges. Judges should be aware of public sentiment and perhaps the laws themselves reconsidered. After all ‘the law’ doesn’t always equal real justice these days.

Absolutely not!

Timothy Evans, Ruth Ellis both appalling judgements of their day! When a woman who had literally been abused and humiliated appallingly by a man and had just suffered an horrendous miscarriage sentenced to hang as she had the temerity to shoot said monster in her deranged state of mind. You think this would happen today?
Poor Timothy Evans , bullied and intimidated by police of the time ex soldiers probably from WW1 hard unintelligent but police force mostly made up of ex forces at that time when class was ALL and beating a confession was run of the mill with steel trap made up minds of prejudiced old men made for a guilty verdict. You think this is a fair representation of our system now? Think again. Unless a rational accurate and intelligent case for not resurrecting death penalty is made, the risk is run for mob mentality to run wild. Simply in knocking off the guilty is not punishment, they need to live a long miserable life regretting their crimes.happily Moors monster was forced to be held in mental health facilities to enable forced feeding otherwise he may have died in a prison . Played him at his own game to great effect, no silent slipping away for that piece of work

As I mentioned before…too many ‘do gooders’ would make sure that even the most evil of killers were given their home comforts. I very much doubt anybody in this day and age suffers sufficiently in prison. I wish to add, I’m not wholly in favour of CP. There have been some appalling misjudgements in the past, but using poor Lee Rigby as an example, is there anyone out there who would have gladly seen his executioners get their just desserts? In my opinion, imprisonment is far to good for them.

Hithere

Some people do not deserve to live - if no remorse, reincident crimes, ...

For some cases, I say yes

Wayne Cousens, the evil moron who killed Sarah Everard, I could send him on his way, where there is no doubt, due to forensic science, why should taxpayers keep them alive, for what purpose?

MarianneF - it’s isn’t “do gooders’ and it isn’t ‘home comforts’. Only those with no experience or understanding of how it’s possible to run prisons with minimal violence could make I’ll informed comments like that

Iam64

MarianneF - it’s isn’t “do gooders’ and it isn’t ‘home comforts’. Only those with no experience or understanding of how it’s possible to run prisons with minimal violence could make I’ll informed comments like that

This.
Capital punishment has no place in a civilised society. For those who want to witness punishment why not consider the death sentence as the easy option compared to a long prison sentence.