Death penalty, why not?

[flumpty]

I would love to see the return of the "Public Guillotine" or "Public Hanging", there would be no greater deterrent to a criminal than to watch as someone's head rolls into a basket, or to watch as a "Friend" swings and chokes at the end of a rope. This should be for any and all violent crimes. But we would need a justice system that works, not the current circus we have. With the current justice system, I would be against a death penalty, it would simply give the cANCer an eradication outlet.

You got it right. If you give the ANC a gallows they might get too fond of using it...

[gac]

Its not even a debate. Bring back the DP and lets start dealing with the "madness" of rape and murder like we mean we are not going to tolerate it.

[dix]

I would love to see the return of the "Public Guillotine" or "Public Hanging", there would be no greater deterrent to a criminal than to watch as someone's head rolls into a basket, or to watch as a "Friend" swings and chokes at the end of a rope. This should be for any and all violent crimes. But we would need a justice system that works, not the current circus we have. With the current justice system, I would be against a death penalty, it would simply give the cANCer an eradication outlet.

Death penalty would be perfect for brutal people but when considering the human error involve in all justice systems, human life cannot be put at risk to such errors.

Would say for justice system to bring down the stats of such brutal people; must invest more in tackling the root cause of such attacks rather than killing people whom we don't know what's driving them.

Just think about it; there are dude's out-there who rape woman knowing very well the penalty for such, but when in prison, they cannot live up to jail-time rather choose to take their own lives, now why would they fear death penalty (they don't fear death), and should we kill such rapist what will guarantee us that others will not not come up because we didn't solve the real causes,

[wynn]

An interesting case in East London a few years ago where a pregnant girl was stabbed in a hi-jacking and lost the child and nearly her own life.
The mother of the baby's father was all over the newspaper calling for the return of the death penalty, no punishment was too harsh etc. etc.

Turns out the hi-jacking was a set up and the son, the father of the now deceased baby, was involved!!!

We never heard from the mother again.

You must be careful what you wish for.