The Death Penalty or Life Meaning Life

[Thorne]

I don't think it affects the justice of the execution one way or the other. I just think it's gruesome and I wonder who it can be shown to: the vicitm's family, to prove what was done, so they can get closure?

Just tell them. Knowledge of the death should be closure enough

Anyone else can only want to see it for reasons that are disturbingly macarbre, ghoulish and depraved.

At one time in history, punishments were public and brutal, and intended as a lesson for aspiring criminals. While I don't propose making executions brutal, I sometimes wonder if making them more public might not benefit society more than putting criminals away where people can forget they exist.

[MMI]

At one time in history, punishments were public and brutal, and intended as a lesson for aspiring criminals. While I don't propose making executions brutal, I sometimes wonder if making them more public might not benefit society more than putting criminals away where people can forget they exist.

As noted above, England no longer has the death penalty, and its restoration is highly improbable. If calling for its return is futile, how much more so is suggesting public executions be brought back.

These events eventually became repugnant to English society, as far back as the seventeenth century, and executions began to take place within the prison walls rather than outside, in front of milling crowds, sometimes running into tens of thousands ... a spectacle at times as gory and hideous as the Roman arenas. Public executions appeal to our basest instincts, and encoursge behaviour I can only call depraved. Imagine the Sun Life Stadium filled with over 75,000 people braying for the blood of some convict or other, or, hopefully, more than one. They can't all be grieving relatives, so why would they be there? Just to watch a man die ... dangling on the end of a rope ... simply that ... disgusting!

Imagine the dvds on sale afterwards: $10.99, plus an interview with the hangman.


Thank God it'll never happen here - not in my lifetime anyway.

[IAN 2411]

As noted above, England no longer has the death penalty, and its restoration is highly improbable. If calling for its return is futile, how much more so is suggesting public executions be brought back.

These events eventually became repugnant to English society, as far back as the seventeenth century, and executions began to take place within the prison walls rather than outside, in front of milling crowds, sometimes running into tens of thousands ... a spectacle at times as gory and hideous as the Roman arenas. Public executions appeal to our basest instincts, and encoursge behaviour I can only call depraved. Imagine the Sun Life Stadium filled with over 75,000 people braying for the blood of some convict or other, or, hopefully, more than one. They can't all be grieving relatives, so why would they be there? Just to watch a man die ... dangling on the end of a rope ... simply that ... disgusting!

Imagine the dvds on sale afterwards: $10.99, plus an interview with the hangman.


Thank God it'll never happen here - not in my lifetime anyway.

In this case i really have to agree with you, and on all points in your post.

[Thorne]

Thank God it'll never happen here - not in my lifetime anyway.

Yeah, I have to agree. I wasn't advocating that we bring them back, just musing about it.