Ian Huntley has died

[Viviennemary]

That's according to BBC news. Can't say I'm sorry.

And no, I won't praise the man who killed him. He's a monster too.

That's not a bad thing if you want the thought of prisons to be a deterrent - In contrast where you spend all day on a playstation and get to do craft workshops, are warm, fed, etc. Some prisoners get institutionalised and then when they are released reoffend to get back in, because it is better than life on the streets.

Let them kill each other as it would help keep the prison numbers down / reduce costs to the tax payer.

As others have said; Live by the sword, die by the sword. Prison should be a brutal, nasty place, imo.

Exactly this.

I live very close to Soham, though I’m not from the area originally. I wasn’t here when the murders happened but I was in another town not far away.

No one talks about what happened: in the almost 15 years I’ve been here, only one person has brought it up in conversation. The town is still utterly traumatised.

As this article says, no one wants to even say his name.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wnn8nn5p8o

It’s impossible to police … the guards are dealing with violent men with nothing to loose!

I used to be responsible for stocking the library of a well known prison and had to visit twice a year. It was a male prison and I the only female. This news does not inspire me with confidence of staff or visitor safety.

Blimey

Life isn’t a dystopian film.

Ohh yes didnt think of that.

Surely you go in during the time they’re locked in cells?

@Allseeingallknowing no it’s not closure I agree, but is him being in prison closure? He would always be in the media no matter if he’s died, or he was beaten again in prison or was going for parole! I don’t think they’d ever have closure, how do you when you’ve lost a child that way! I’m pleased he’s dead! I don’t agree with how it happened, but I’m so pleased he’s gone!

Shame he didnt suffer for longer but pleased that the state does not have to pay for his life any more

maybe the atrocious monster who killed him could do the world a favour and keel over dead too

Why?

Countries with brutal, violent and nasty prisons have worse reoffending rates than those that are decent and structured and safe.

So if someone is in their cell banging their head on the wall, choking themselves, eating their own shit, covering themselves in it eating their own flesh you think prison officers should leave them to it?

You think that keeps officers safe?

If you think that keeps them physically 'safe' what kind of psychological impact do you think that would have on officers?

And not everyone in prison is guilty of heinous crimes. Some are even innocent.

How about if there's an inmate with Autism, ADHD, mental illness or extreme childhood trauma convicted of anything, even heinous crimes, you want them to be left eating their own shit or flesh and not be provided with medical treatment?

Tell me you've never been in a prison without telling me you've never been in a prison.

Obviously, there would be category prisons.

Prisoners who have taken a life, should have their human rights voided.

Never. I haven't even walked passed one.

No criminal offences neither.

And have no idea of the sociology of crime.

Which countries have the best crime statistics in terms of how often people reoffend, how likely people are to be affected by violent crime etc?
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Meant to quote @Charlize43

But there was a teacher in the room as well, who must have been completely terrorised.

My MIL used to be a teacher in a prison, in the 80s, and she was once held hostage and assaulted during a prison riot, which obviously left her traumatised. (This was long before I knew her.)

Safety inside prisons matters.

Not if they are executing them. How does that work then, are they reoffending in the afterlife?

Exactly this, the man who killed Huntley had violently ended three lives, well four given that one of his victims was a woman who was 5 months pregnant. He raped her before murdering her and then pretended to help her partner look for her so in my opinion just as sick and twisted as the now thankfully deceased Huntley. My thoughts are with the families of all the victims, the media coverage must open up wounds that can never heal. To see both those hideous creatures all over the news must be profoundly distressing.

I find it strange that people find it odd that a place which literally houses murderers and violent men all caged up together has the occasional incident where these people fight with other and occasionally ends fatally…. Surely the bigger concern is that these people were able to murder on the outside…. Our society isn’t safe, particularly for women and children… women and children being abused and the system being so that women are disbelieved… so no… it’s not at all shocking that locking a bunch of deprived monsters up together results in the occasional fatal beating… it’s impossible to alleviate the risk completely… unless they housed everyone individually and were let out for their exercise one at a time!

Not how it works

I'm glad for Holly and Jessica's families, and for Huntley's Mum and family.

Slight problem with the death penalty: if you find you've got the wrong person you can't let them go, apologise, pay compensation and do better.