The Yorkshire Ripper question?

[PassingStranger]

Just read that it cost the taxpayer 11 billion to keep him alive including his funeral?
Do you still feel the same way about him being hung for his murders?

is it acceptable to the taxpayer to pay that much, when there are so many other things that the money could have been spent on, or dosent the money matter?

Richard McCann is the son of Wilma McCann one of the victims. He endured a painful childhood as a result.

As a young adult his future was bleak but he found the strength to turn his life around. His sister sadly succumbed and committed suicide.

Richard is a lovely man and is now an author and motivational speaker.

He has respectfully requested that the media do not use the term 'The Yorkshire Ripper' and use Peter Sutcliffe, the killers name.

It's distressing for the family members of the victims to read or hear the word Ripper with regards to their loved one.

Please don't add to the sensationalism and would you kindly ask for the thread title to be changed.

Thank you.

Please listen to Richard McCann -

If we weren't wasting millions keeping monsters like him in prison there'd be a lot more funding available to pore into our Police forces which would give a better chance of more thorough investigations being done.
If he'd murdered one of my family members I'd happily have flicked the switch to the chair or given the fatal injection.

No, I would have given him a lethal injection, job done. People always trot out the old trope that killing people costs a lot of money - no it doesn't have to at all. Look at all the cases where rogue doctors have killed people for no money at all. That £11 million could have been spent on more police, housing for veterans, anything but this waste of space.

It does cost a lot of money because in general if you are going to inflict the death penalty on someone you need to be really sure they did it and were of sound mind when they did.

And to do that usually takes multiple trials and appeals, with expensive lawyers being used in every one.

Whether it would cost £11 million per person or not is harder to establish, but I would guess it would cost at the minimum millions.

What on earth were you looking for @letmehaveathink that brought you to a thread that’s almost a year old?

Crikey, surprised to see this one back again.

Didn't you check the date on it before responding?

This. It's not about Sutcliffe, it's about the many innocent people who would be killed in error and it's about our humanity.

Death row is also I believe phenomenally more expensive than standard prison. Plus they kind of still end up dead so need a funeral.

Peter Sutcliffe, the man who horrifically murdered thirteen women (he should not be referred to as some mythical name) did not cost the tax payer billions of pounds

millions, yes it’s very costly to keep people in high secure hospitals and prison but the alternative to have the death penalty is also very costly (the appeal system itself would increase costs and there are plenty of ruthless lawyers who would absolutely work the system) and is state sanctioned murder one any civilised country should consider the death penalty as a punishment

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Rather than wasting money keeping monsters like Sutcliffe alive we should just execute them on the same day that they are found guilty.

He was caught next to my school. We were 15/16.

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