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There should be the death penalty for Karl Clifford and those like him

395 replies

HermioneWeasley · 10/07/2024 18:25

There is no doubt he did it. No case of mistaken identity. He’s taken 3 lives. He should be executed.

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SnakesAndArrows · 10/07/2024 21:35

HermioneWeasley · 10/07/2024 20:10

I stand by it. For this guy (I only heard his name on TV and hadn’t read it so apologies to all those offended I got his first name wrong. I was writing a thread on Mn very upset by the murder of 3 women, not preparing CPS documents), Ian Huntley and others. There is no question of guilt, no hope of rehabilitation, no purpose for keeping them alive. I respect that others have a different opinion and that probably makes them better, smarter, more compassionate than me. But I can’t feel any other way.

It’s perfectly reasonable to wish he was dead, or to want him to suffer more than those poor women did. If they were my family I would want to kill him with my bare hands.

But wanting the state to have the power to end someone’s life is quite another thing.

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:37

Pebbles16 · 10/07/2024 21:32

No. I cannot condone a state sanctioned murder of anyone.
There are dreadful people in this world. Do you want to live in an "eye for an eye" society?
Whilst this thread is interesting, it also names an individual and - as far as know - we need to adhere to the letter of the law to ensure justice for all.

It's a difficult one! In general no but at the same time when there's monsters like Ted bundy and Ian Brady I can't comprehend paying millions to protect and house them. I'll tell you what pisses me off 😤 Jon venables all the money that keeps being spend on him letting him out and he keeps reoffending life him off already 🤮

Wouldprefertobereading · 10/07/2024 21:38

Nope.. all of the facts are against you.. let alone the morality.

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:39

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:37

It's a difficult one! In general no but at the same time when there's monsters like Ted bundy and Ian Brady I can't comprehend paying millions to protect and house them. I'll tell you what pisses me off 😤 Jon venables all the money that keeps being spend on him letting him out and he keeps reoffending life him off already 🤮

Exactly this!!!!! He however is another kettle of fish!!! He should just be killed off he’s just pure and utter scum and evil.

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:40

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:39

Exactly this!!!!! He however is another kettle of fish!!! He should just be killed off he’s just pure and utter scum and evil.

I absolutely agree they've been trying to rehabilitate him since he was what? 10?

AInightingale · 10/07/2024 21:43

I do support the DP in some circumstances, but we would become like the US - condemned killers in limbo, lodging appeal after appeal. I've always been staggered reading accounts of murderers hanged when we did have it - how short a time elapsed between their offence, trial and execution. Ruth Ellis killed her boyfriend at Easter and was executed in July. She did not appeal, but even in cases where they did, it was heard very quickly. People say that Brady and Hindley ought to have been hanged - they certainly deserved it, but Pauline Read's body would never have been found if they had.

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:43

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:40

I absolutely agree they've been trying to rehabilitate him since he was what? 10?

Yep and it’s not worked he’s had soo much help and money spent on him to rehabilitate him he just constantly repeats when he is released so he is and always will be a danger to society. Get rid of the waste of oxygen.

Sondheimisademigod · 10/07/2024 21:44

StMarieforme · 10/07/2024 21:10

@Sondheimisademigod also it is not possible to be 110% as 100% is representative of the whole so the poster is asking the impossible.

What? I haven't mentioned per centages!

GatherYePearls · 10/07/2024 21:45

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:43

Yep and it’s not worked he’s had soo much help and money spent on him to rehabilitate him he just constantly repeats when he is released so he is and always will be a danger to society. Get rid of the waste of oxygen.

Would you be willing to kill them yourself? Or would you advocate for making someone else become a murderer to satisfy your wishes?

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:47

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:43

Yep and it’s not worked he’s had soo much help and money spent on him to rehabilitate him he just constantly repeats when he is released so he is and always will be a danger to society. Get rid of the waste of oxygen.

Tell you what else baby ps mother alot of money has gone on that evil fucker but the government are pointing their fingers at the disabled saying they have the economy on its knees. I wonder how much was spend on Ian Bradys medical care 🤔

RubySloth · 10/07/2024 21:47

Yes, what a burden on tax payers money.

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:48

GatherYePearls · 10/07/2024 21:45

Would you be willing to kill them yourself? Or would you advocate for making someone else become a murderer to satisfy your wishes?

Actually I would happily take that piece of scum out myself. He is beyond help and clearly will never get better. He is a waste of hard earned money by us workers who pay tax to keep that vile piece of sh*t alive. He just constantly reoffends when he is out. I think maybe you should google what this ‘thing’ did and then carried on doing after being released to realise why I feel extremely strongly opinionated on this one for sure.

CosFuckThatGuy · 10/07/2024 21:48

Nope. I would genuinely emigrate if this country brought back the death penalty; it would show me that we had irrevocably lost our way as a society.

More than a decade of Tories being stunningly incompetent and you want to give politicians the power of life and death over its citizens? The nationalist right on the rise all over Europe and you think this is a good time to hand governments that power?

Absolutely ridiculous minimal-thinking response to a tragedy.

RubySloth · 10/07/2024 21:48

GatherYePearls · 10/07/2024 21:45

Would you be willing to kill them yourself? Or would you advocate for making someone else become a murderer to satisfy your wishes?

Yes.

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:49

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:47

Tell you what else baby ps mother alot of money has gone on that evil fucker but the government are pointing their fingers at the disabled saying they have the economy on its knees. I wonder how much was spend on Ian Bradys medical care 🤔

100% 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 exactly!! Sooo true!! And that son of a b*tch still didn’t let that mother know where he had buried his body!! He took it too his grave just because he could and had control of the sick situation! Makes my blood boil.

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:51

GatherYePearls · 10/07/2024 21:45

Would you be willing to kill them yourself? Or would you advocate for making someone else become a murderer to satisfy your wishes?

John venables has litrally popped up again and again reoffending. James mother each time being dragged throught torment it's actually horrific.

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:52

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:51

John venables has litrally popped up again and again reoffending. James mother each time being dragged throught torment it's actually horrific.

Exactly being reminded that the person who did such disgusting things to her son keeps getting let out and reoffending because he hasn’t changed. That poor woman honestly 😔😔

Iwasafool · 10/07/2024 21:52

IMO, the reason that prison doesn't work in this country is because criminals know the police won't catch them, the CPS won't prosecute them and a judge won't send them to prison. The amount of crimes a criminal can get away with before even getting a whiff of incarceration is huge, making the risk eminently worth it.

I really can't figure out why the prisons are full if no one ever gets caught, prosecuted and convicted. Who are all these people clogging up the prisons?

CosFuckThatGuy · 10/07/2024 21:53

mitogoshi · 10/07/2024 19:10

I don't agree with capital punishment but I think in these cases the best thing that can happen is that the police need to use lethal force, perhaps more readily than currently

So you just want to circumvent THE LAW and have people killed on spec by the police before there's any evidence collected or charges been brought?

Solid plan.

Fuck sake. This sort of opinion is what makes me hate being on this tiny island sometimes.

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:56

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:52

Exactly being reminded that the person who did such disgusting things to her son keeps getting let out and reoffending because he hasn’t changed. That poor woman honestly 😔😔

I've seen a few interviews she's given absolutely unable to move on because he's such a lawless sick fuck! I also felt absolutely awful for Keith bennets mom the torment of never being able to bury him those cases stick out the most for me just awful x

GatherYePearls · 10/07/2024 22:01

RubySloth · 10/07/2024 21:48

Yes.

So you and these people share a desire to physically kill someone.

That's quite a big deal - given the right circumstances, you would do as they have.

infor · 10/07/2024 22:03

I think that those deliberately disfiguring their victims should be released only when the victim is restored perfectly to their condition before the attack. If any damage remains, they stay locked up.

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 22:06

BowlOfNoodles · 10/07/2024 21:56

I've seen a few interviews she's given absolutely unable to move on because he's such a lawless sick fuck! I also felt absolutely awful for Keith bennets mom the torment of never being able to bury him those cases stick out the most for me just awful x

Yep and she’s been doing some protest I think or something to keep venables in prison. I read the book from the father’s point and it was such a heart breaking read those two boys completely destroyed the mum and dad. As you said it has haunted them their whole lives and it’s just absolutely awful 😔 it’s a constant reminder when that scumbag is always in the limelight for reoffending he should be taken out.

GatherYePearls · 10/07/2024 22:09

moonlightwatch · 10/07/2024 21:48

Actually I would happily take that piece of scum out myself. He is beyond help and clearly will never get better. He is a waste of hard earned money by us workers who pay tax to keep that vile piece of sh*t alive. He just constantly reoffends when he is out. I think maybe you should google what this ‘thing’ did and then carried on doing after being released to realise why I feel extremely strongly opinionated on this one for sure.

You feel justified in killing someone who you see as scum and you want to do it to satisfy your desire for violence and to personally inflict pain and death.

Yes?

samarrange · 10/07/2024 22:09

CosFuckThatGuy · 10/07/2024 21:48

Nope. I would genuinely emigrate if this country brought back the death penalty; it would show me that we had irrevocably lost our way as a society.

More than a decade of Tories being stunningly incompetent and you want to give politicians the power of life and death over its citizens? The nationalist right on the rise all over Europe and you think this is a good time to hand governments that power?

Absolutely ridiculous minimal-thinking response to a tragedy.

Interestingly, to being back the death penalty would require first leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. Or, to put it another way, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be the first step on the way to restoring the death penalty. Of course, no British political party would entertain such a oh wait.