death penalty

[caz]

to all who are against the death penalty-
Id be more concerned about scores of convicted murderers who are released and kill again.

Once again, if we tried to bring back the death penalty here in the UK, it would likely result in more murderers not even being convicted in the first place. Those who are rightly convicted and locked up should stay locked up in my view. Why is the death penalty seen as the only alternative to releasing them to offend again?

Love,

Caz
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[Abby Normal]

Once again, if we tried to bring back the death penalty here in the UK, it would likely result in more murderers not even being convicted in the first place. Those who are rightly convicted and locked up should stay locked up in my view. Why is the death penalty seen as the only alternative to releasing them to offend again?

Love,

Caz
X

well, if the majority of people are against the death penalty in your country then you should not bring it back anyway. Im just giving my personal opinion on the subject.

[Robert]

I imagine next up the people who object to whole life tariffs will refuse to perform their legal duties as jurors, or deliberately allow murderers to go free. Rather worrying.

[louisa]

Britain's most famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint wrote (in his memoirs) that the death penalty was simply 'revenge'. Well I have to say that if I was a close relative of a murder victim then revenge would be sweet.

[Robert]

How can capital punishment be revenge? A person cannot exact revenge on someone who hasn't hurt that person.

[Fleetwood Mac]

well, if the majority of people are against the death penalty in your country then you should not bring it back anyway. Im just giving my personal opinion on the subject.

Which isn't true. The majority of people in this country are for the death penalty, but as Robert said this is no democracy. Or maybe he's wrong and it's a case of left-wing types having nothing better to do than make themselves heard and Christ if ever a people cling doggedly to a cause it's them.

[louisa]

Society's revenge is what I think he actually said, Robert.

[Fleetwood Mac]

Yes, but then there could be no hope of a fair trial, because everyone with better things to do would get off jury service by saying they were against the death penalty (whether they felt strongly about it or not) and you'd only be left with the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade.

Love,

Caz
X

Classic left-wing tactic. "It ain't the murderers; I mean, they were only messing around when they decided to smash a 7 year old child's skull in with a brick and then stab the poor lass 37 times; it's 'the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade' that's the problem.

This country is so far ******* brainwashed I despair.

[GUT]

G'day Fleetwood Mac

This country is so far ******* brainwashed I despair.

Which Country?

[Fleetwood Mac]

Which Country?

Which country?! The Mother country. The country to which all you people (or whatever description should fit) owe your existence.

[GUT]

G'day Fleetwood Mac

So then for me maybe Germany or Holland, there being some debate where Great grandad was born.

[Fleetwood Mac]

So then for me maybe Germany or Holland, there being some debate where Great grandad was born.

You'd be able to tell by the surname. What's his surname?

[GUT]

G'day Fleetwood Mac

Praeger which exists in both countries. His dad was born in Amsterdam, Died in Liepzig Germany, and lived for many years in Ireland, but where was Great Gradad born, no one is 100% sure.

The rest mainly come from Scotland, England, New Zealand and France.

So where is my mother county? That's the question your earlier post raises.

[Fleetwood Mac]

Praeger which exists in both countries. His dad was born in Amsterdam, Died in Liepzig Germany, and lived for many years in Ireland, but where was Great Gradad born, no one is 100% sure.

The rest mainly come from Scotland, England, New Zealand and France.

So where is my mother county? That's the question your earlier post raises.

Praeger does not sound Dutch to me. Don't think the Dutch put an a before the e, but Germans do.

[GUT]

G'day Fleetwood Mac

But the furthest back we can trace the Praeger's we're descended from is to Amsterdam. However many of the died in Germany so who knows where they originally came from.