What do you think about hanging? Should it be brought back?

gwen

Nope nope nope.

The UK prison situation would have been solved by now if the government had heeded warnings about overcrowding years ago - they ignored it and this is what happens.
Hanging is barbaric - and I don't believe we have the right to take lives - otherwise we become murderers too.

Plus - people like Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis souldn't have been hanged. It leaves the path open for miscarriages of justice.

Also - fantastic point made by Alberto above - the actual number of people you coul dhang is tiny.
Plus they'd have appeals and appeals and it would be a long long process.

We used to hang children in the UK for stealing bread - it would be a huge step backwards.

burning brightly

Overcrowding is not sufficient reason to bring back hanging. I do not think hanging will sol ve anything.

sudonym x

NO

God commanded us not to kill.

Well, said Alberto

It would not resolve the problem.

Even if you ignore the obvious past miscarriages of justice, most prisoners are sentenced for relatively minor crimes (stealing cars, handling stolen goods). The proportion of dangerous (potentailly "hangable" prisoners is actually quite low.

Cute But Evil

Hanging is barbaric no matter where it's done...it sends the wrong message to younger generations.

Matthew H

No. It's barbaric, does not act as a deterrant and innocent people will be executed.

Besides not enough people are gaoled for capital offences for hanging to make an appreciable difference to the prison population.

airmonkey1001

Only a sick culture murders its misfits.

Veritas

Please, simply build more prisons. Over the last thirty years we would already have hanged many innocents. It also turns the state into a murderer, and turns the public into grotesque voyeurs. Just look at Saddam's hanging. Also, I can't understand how anybody can kiss the kids and wife in the morning and then go off and kill somebody as part of his job. And they are killing in cold blood someone who they don't know and hasn't personally done anything to them. They must be worse than the prisoner, but then again, we have to consider, as in the US, the two hundred or so seriously deranged people who are quite happy to sit there and watch it.

silly gorbie

It would reduce the prison population that's for sure...but why stop there? why not hang th unemployed that would certainly lower the unemployment figures...and don't forget single moms..hang 'em....hang 'em alI say.

edd

How many of them do you think to hang to reduce the number of prisons?

Seaman Staines

I imagine that hanging a load of the more serious crims (the dangerous ones) would solve the overcrowding problem.

Trouble is, mistakes cannot be rectified afterwards, I don't agree with it and I think it would just cause more issues and aggro than we have already.

Repatriate the non Brits might be a better approach

BARROWMAN

Yes the return of the death penalty would certainly reduce the overcrowding in our prisons. But a better and more effective way for dealing with the crowding would be to repatriate, on humanitarian grounds, all the 11,000 foreign prisoners in our jails so that they could serve out their sentences near to their nearest and dearest.

The Reaganite

The UK and other European countries have always been softer on crime than we have. But if capital punishment was brought back, I think lethal injections would be the way to go. JoHanna (the sixth answer) was very right too.

Girugamesh

Yes they should but they should cryogenicaly frozen just in case new evidence arises that finds them not guilty after their death. In which case they can be brought back to life.

NATALIE W

Yeah for paedophiles,rapists,child killers and any other horrible individual

the big man

From what i can gather, capital punishment still exists for crimes against the crown ie; treason. But i fell that what with Human Rights putting there ore in it has made crime in this country a viable alternative to working. After all go to prison get let out early, get given everything from the state when you are released sign on at probation for a few moths, behave yourself and carry on as normal. then if you are really bored commit more crime and either go to prison or stay in a police station for a a while, then walk out. So i agree that capital punishment should be brought back as a real alternative for adults and old style boot camps for juveniles, i for one would take the job on along with others in the country..LETS GET THE COUNTRY BACK TO HOW IT SHOULD BE, SAFE AND TOLERANT FOR EVERYONE

JusMe

Lethal injection would be better.

ste53

Bring it back for such as Ian Huntley , Ian Brady and all the pedos who think its there right to go out and kill innocent children, also for those bombers who think its gods wish that they should go out and blow up Innocent men,women and children.
What do the parents of the victims think?
I bet its not their wish to keep the vermin in luxury for the rest of their life sentence."which now days is 10 or 15yrs if there lucky

The Naked Chef

bring it back...i'm sure channel 4 would probably make the last days of the 'guilty' one into a reality tv program.

Pinkflower

well its a yes and no answer really.
For people that killer, rape, abuse and things like that i would say yes to, specialy to people who do things to children and well every one but children more. They cant do much really and its haunts them for life.
This is so hard to answer really as i think people who do wrong should be taumented for life so they know some of the pain they have put their victims and the victims family and friends through.
This does confuse me at times really.

East Coaster

May I quote you and your question in the US? There are some debates going on in the US right now on the impacts of abolishing the death penalty. Some think it [the penalty] has no impact on offenders in one way or another.

Woodman

its not best way to solve things but in certain cases were the person is pure evil (sadam) and has no remorse for their actions then i think it can be justified

crazeeladee no more

yes for terrorists, child abusers/killers, and serial killers.

JoHanna

i think public hangings should be happening. for one... others will see the result of the crime... and this will prompt them not to do it. also it will give some sort of closure to the families of the murdered or hurt. criminals are criminals for a reason and right now there are TONS of murderers sitting on death row eating 3 times a day, sleeping in a bed, and have a roof over their head. there are so many people in this world that dont have that, and yet murderers and molesters are getting that privalege. our tax dollars are supporting these criminals. i'm stopping here because i could go on forever about this, mainly because i know there are going to be endless answers saying "criminals are people too..." no their not people... atleast not deserving people.

JillPinky

I definitely think hanging (or at least the death penalty) should be brought back for murderers and terrorists and a few more groups. This government has not got the backbone to re-introduce it, so it will never happen. I think any government with any sort of backbone should go to the country with a referendum and let the electorate vote as to whether or not to bring back the death penalty. I think there would be an overall 'yes' vote.

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