Should we bring back hanging
examples of in cornwall alone
all they get now is a slap on the wrist, interesting to see what they were hung for
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Do we bring back public stoning as well? What about the rack and the witches friend, the ducking stool? Hanging someone who later proves to be innocent is a very bad result.
Prison where they work to eat is much better and of course, absolutely NO privileges whatsoever.
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Donât be silly. 
No, they were brutal, cruel times and a lot of those âcrimesâ were down to poverty, despair and hunger 
A system designed to keep the working class subdued and in their place
I do agree sentencing should be harsher in some cases though, but not hanging
Except for Prime Ministers who break their own laws and then lie to Parliament about it. Now that is a hanging offence! 
Weâve had many threads about bringing back the death penalty over the years, but for what itâs worth, if it is deemed the only appropriate penalty for a criminal, I donât think it should be by hanging, nor do I lthink a lifetime in prison is suitable either.
It should be done by lethal injection.
Can you imagine the outcry domestic pets and farm animals were put to death by hanging them?
No one would stand for that, so why do it to the human species?
Just a quick, clean injection, and job done.
No capital punishment. Not ever for anything. For one thing itâs far too quick so no punishment. âSupermaxâ yes, absolutely, but thatâs all.
But itâs not like that. Too often it goes wrong - who knows if accidentally - or just isnât quick or painless.
A couple of things come to mind here, Todger.
Firstly, how do you know it goes wrong âtoo oftenâ ?
What do you mean? Do you mean the injection fails to work? So theyâd have to do it again.
Most of these things work by adjusting the dose by bodyweight, so how can it can go wrong?
I have never, ever seen it go wrong when I have seen my beloved animals PTS.
As for being painless, well I should think a quick needle is a darn sight less painful than having your neck snapped!
I am not a hard person by a long chalk, but in certain circumstances, I think Iâd object to paying for some vile person to be fed, clothed and kept warm for the rest of his life if he had tortured and killed one of my family.
How would you feel if someone had intentionally killed someone you loved?
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Winnie Johnson served a more severe sentence than either Brady or Hindley.
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Thereâs quite a lot from bonafide sources on the web about messy executions where IV poisoning has been used. Iâd much rather that those people unworthy of life by their actions were just dumped in some latter-day oubliette such as a Supermax for ever. I would feel exactly the same if my own had been victim, actually better than if they had been just put to death.
My mum and dad used to say may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb . I never understood what they meant till I grew up .
Landowners refused the hungry and poor access to their hundreds of acres of land and rivers so these poor souls took risks to feed their children. So to steal a sheep was better and more filling for longer. They knew they would get punished. The greedy landowners took the land of the peasants and starved them and paid a pittance to keep them low and subservient . While the rich got fatter and richer the hungry got cold and died . Cruel times
What you say is true but I think the point of the expression is that the penalty (hanging) is the same whether you steal a small lamb or a large sheep so you might as well take the bigger beast. ie go big!
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