The Yorkshire Ripper question?

Capital punishment had all but finished by then, it was suspended in 1965 then abolished in 1969, the last hanging was in 1964.

Who would volunteer for the job as hangman or to chop heads off using the guillotine? Basically the sort of sick people you wouldn't want anywhere near the job.

The death penalty is barbaric and has no place in a civilised society.

You do realise they aren't just given that amount to spend, right? It's transferred to them by family/friends on the outside, or earned through working.

I think you are being deliberately goady

I work in a prison and would not be part of this, neither would any officer I work with

OK, so who defines "evil people" and how do we make sure we're correct that someone is evil and not innocent? And what makes it evil for someone to kill people, but not evil for others to kill them? Seems a slippery slope to me to have people in charge determining who gets to live and who gets to die..

Since 1992, the Innocence Project have secured the freedom of over 200 wrongfully convicted people in the US, many of whom were on Death Row.

One study has suggested that at least 4% of those sentenced to death in the US are innocent.

£1000 a month on luxuries is ridiculous. Most law-abiding, working people don't have anything near that amount to spend on luxuries.

Don't keep on them death row for years. Find them guilty, they get walked out back directly to a guillotine and it's over and done with. No messing about and no endless "appeals".

As someone who has worked in a prison, they're definitely not luxury! 😆

People are sent to prison AS punishment, not FOR punishment. The lock them up and throw away the key brigade tend to forget that if you treat people badly, it's even less likely to change someone's offending behaviour, which is already incredibly difficult for a multitude of reasons. I often wonder if they'd feel a little differently if they or one of their relatives ended up in prison...

Of course the above is general, not about Sutcliffe specifically. I don't think he could ever have been rehabilitated. He was sentenced to life for his crimes and that was what he served. Would I like to have been the one locking him up? No. But it's one of those jobs where you have to be able to put personal feelings aside and be professional.

Nobody is in luxury in a U.K. prison

Go on then. Define 'luxury'

Watch The long Shadow, one black woman was assumed to be a prostitute and her account ignored because she was black and she, like others, said it was a white man. The ending would be brilliant, if there wasn't thirteen victims, that could have been avoided.

I’d love to see where they go for their “luxury” holidays.

No prison isn't 'luxury' but it should be clean, basic needs met with support in place for those who need it

Fit for humans in other words

A lot of those costs would exist anyway, it wasn't 11m wasted on him personally.

Should they be given the option of death rather than spend the rest of their days in prison?

Must be 'brilliant' if it's in the Grauniad! If we have to keep there murderers in prison for the rest of their lives they should not have endless free access to Legal Aid once convicted.

housed in luxury

I assume @Getonwitit that you are posting a satirical response?!

I've never been inside a prison, thankfully, but I really doubt that anyone could describe incarceration in prison as 'luxury'!

I was a child but I remember my dad being late home one night due to all the lorry drivers at his depot being questioned

The police were all over it and visible on the streets. Foot patrols s asks a van/car on the ends of local streets. It dominated the news for days too. All Unlike nowadays

I'd also recommend the BBC's The Yorkshire Ripper Files by film-maker Liza Williams which explores how misogyny and attitudes to women in the 1970s derailed the investigation. It includes interviews with the adult children of some of the victims, the ones who were described as prostitutes as opposed to the other victims who were described as 'totally respectable women'. Their testimony is heartbreaking.

That wouldn't be allowed....no matter how much you think you want it

If the IMB saw it....