General Chat

Depends on a lot of things for me - couldn't give a blanket answer. I wonder how many people who have said yes would feel differently if it was their son or daughter who had been sentenced to life.

regardng the man who was jailed for beating up the burglar - I really didn't realise the extent to which he went in attacking him - I've changed my mind on that one and feel he did deserve a prison sentence - that really was a couple of steps too far

If after all the hard evidence is heard by the jury...not only for murder but for other henious crimes such as rape, child abuse etc etc...and that person is found guilty and the mandantory sentence is life... then yes life means life!!

out of the world more like!!!! what justice is that

Simple answer from me - no

If there's doubt that the person in question is likely to kill again - then, yes, obviously. Protecting society has to be our first priority.

But I'm with Lynda on this - you can't have a situation where someone decides to take the law into their own hands. I quite understand how he felt, but we have to let the law take its own course.

If we confuse revenge with justice, we take a very rocky path.

Sue x

If we cant hang them by the neck, how about hanging them by something else

well said hoobity boobity

Aggree so much there Ann...I know he called his brother to come and help him get the villan but to think he and his family were tied up while this career criminal and his mates robbed and scared the what not out of him and his family and the victim has been jailed. The thug who tied the family up and robbed them is bragging 'You cannot touch me'...Eh! and he is right apparently...I cannot comprehend this at all.

far from being imprisoned that guy should have got a commendation!!! too many times the law is on the side of the perpertrator not the victim

if hanging were still around today, Ruth Ellis would not have been hanged - in France she would have got away with it then - it was a crime of passion and he provoked her big time

I've seen the pub in Hampsted where it happened and the bullet holes are still to be seen in the walls

even with DNA mistakes could still be made were hanging to return

DNA is not the 100% people think it is apparently . Then there is the question of what if someone placed your DNA at the scene of the crime?
So on those ideas I am againt hanging and would prefer life to mean life, because if evidence was to come up with your innocence then at least you would still be alive and you could stuff the goverment for loads and live what was left of your life in luxury. Still not good to have lost your freedom if you were innocent.
Now if someone was to harm or kill one of my own, I would like to kill them myself, so its a good job we have this law system.

What are your views on the chappie who has gone to prison for defending his castle and the burgalar has gone free?

oops I cannot spell burglar.

off for dinner back later

why not Lynda ?

i know they will never bring hanging back

No to capitol punishment but if a judge says life then that is exactly what they should get, not with the recomendation hat they should serve a menimum of 12 years. The victim has no life, the victims family have a life sentence.

If every I was in the situation that some victims families are in of hearing that the b...........d who killed their loved one, I would warn him/her that when they were released i would find them !!!!!!!

one simple word

YES

it should

xx :0))

As young as I was at the time, I can remember the hanging of Ruth Ellis, which I think was 1954, and the last female to be hung, in England. I seem to think I can remember men being hung, but maybe I just read about that.
Would Ruth Ellis have been hung today, with DNA evidence.
And, I am not opening a can of worms here, just an memory and an opinion.
Julia in Derbyshire

I'm not sure but I think i don't lean towards life being life because it the perpetrator is very young, just maybe there is a chance that there would be remorse and a change and life would mean say if they were 18 70+ years, whereas if the person was in their 30s/40s/50s life might be more applicable.

I did say I wasn't sure but I feel there may be a difference .

I never agreed with hanging.
Thanks to today's technology, DNA can prove if the accused actually committed the crime, but how would you feel if someone who was innocent had been wrongly executed? It did happen.

But, life should mean life, for the rest of the perpetrators natural life.
Why should they have a second chance when they are released from prison, when their victims didn't have a chance.

No,hang them!!