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Death penalty.

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CurlewKate · 26/01/2024 19:09

Why don't they use an anaesthetic? Then do whatever barbaric thing they're going to.

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SideshowAuntSallyx · 30/01/2024 10:03

I just can't get my head around why anyone would support the death penalty, it makes me uncomfortable. It feels like such a backwards and outdated thing and doesn't have a place in modern society.

Anyone remember the film Let Him Have It? That's why I think the death penalty should never be brought back as well. I do believe even back in the day it caused quite a stir. The fact that the police lied as well should make people stop and think.

WhatsTheUseOfWorrying · 30/01/2024 10:14

sashh · 30/01/2024 09:34

I'm fairly sure Julius was guilty, Ethel, I'm, not so sure.

The evidence against her was quite weak, she seem, at most, to have typed up information and been an accessory.

The death penalty seems harsh for that.

Her brother gave evidence against her that was probably perjury and he has said he did that because they were threatening his wife.

So was it beyond doubt?

I don’t think there’s any doubt that Ethel was an accessory to Julius’s spying, which was enough for conviction and execution. There is also very good evidence, independent of her brother, that she played a part in recruiting her brother.

The US offered to commute the death sentence if the Rosenbergs gave up others. They didn’t because they said they were innocent.

Interesting as the Rosenbergs are as a case in which, like Hanratty’s, time has confirmed guilt - I do agree with you that judicial execution is not justifiable: clear cut cases of guilt don’t do away with all the complexities of less clear cases or of how a decision in one (certain) case should be distinguished from another (certain) case.

The decision to impose death in one case v another is as problematic as its availability at all.

SammyScrounge · 11/02/2024 02:55

WhatsTheUseOfWorrying · 27/01/2024 14:40

Hanging, in the hands of an experienced hangman, is apparently the most humane. Or slow deprivation of oxygen in a chamber.

I’ve always wondered if they sterilise the needle for execution by lethal injection.

Anyway, state execution is sordid. I’m very glad we banned it decades ago.

Hindley and Brady just missed being executable. They spent the rest of their lives locked up. She in particular was desperate to be freed and cultivated everyone who might assist her, studied for a degree.in the humanities, plotted an escape.. And she.died
still a prisoner and good friend of Rose West.
Capital punishment may sound like a satisfying event when you deal with the Hindleys and Bradies of this world.but lifelong incarceration really makes them suffer.

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