Ok here's a question for you.......

[DimPrawn]

VERY long prison sentences involving harsh conditions and hard labour (digging / breaking rocks etc). Min 5 years for petty crime, life for everything else.

Now the main argument against this is cost and space, hence why I believe most of our prisons should be offshored to 3rd world locations (and I mean third world as well) where the cost and space issues are removed.

Sorted.

[bogeyman]

Trouble is, our legal system (and that of other countries) has a solid history of executing people where the passage of time has proven them to be wholly innocent of their supposed crimes.

Whilst it is convenient (both mentally and financially) to dispatch the neredowells, one has to wonder about the justice of the situation.

What would have happened to the 'Guilford Four'? the 'Birmingham Six'?

[hyperD]

Just as an aside: how about not releasing a prisoner until he can prove that he can read and write? Otherwise, there's not much point really...

[Dundeegeorge]

Well bm

Trouble is, our legal system (and that of other countries) has a solid history of executing people where the passage of time has proven them to be wholly innocent of their supposed crimes.

Whilst it is convenient (both mentally and financially) to dispatch the neredowells, one has to wonder about the justice of the situation.

What would have happened to the 'Guilford Four'? the 'Birmingham Six'?

If the giuildfour 4 had been convicted three times for seperate offences I would think they'd have to be bloody unlucky so an incorrect death sentence would just be in keeping with that general streak of bad luck, wouldn't you say?

[Numptycorner]

Yeah, but what about the Renault 5?

[bogeyman]

If the giuildfour 4 had been convicted three times for seperate offences I would think they'd have to be bloody unlucky so an incorrect death sentence would just be in keeping with that general streak of bad luck, wouldn't you say?

Bloody bad luck I'd say.

By the way, just because you committed crime X, doesn't mean you commited crime Y - does it?


p.s. Guildford [Fleetwood]

[FrankScribe]

for killers/multiple rapists/recidivist paedophiles.
1st offence - treatment in a secure environment for 5 years
2nd offence - secure prison for 10 years
3rd offence - death
Society is entitled to protect itself.

Surely the death penalty represents a light sentence.

A real life sentence where the culprit faces a lifetime of incarceration with no prospect of freedom, ever, has to be the ultimate punishment.

[Churchill]

Surely the death penalty represents a light sentence.

A real life sentence where the culprit faces a lifetime of incarceration with no prospect of freedom, ever, has to be the ultimate punishment.

Yeah, crucifiction's a doddle!

[Dundeegeorge]

Errm

Bloody bad luck I'd say.

By the way, just because you committed crime X, doesn't mean you commited crime Y - does it?


p.s. Guildford [Fleetwood]

No, it doesn't, but again, why is that significant?

[DaveB]

Bloody bad luck I'd say.

By the way, just because you committed crime X, doesn't mean you commited crime Y - does it?


p.s. Guildford [Fleetwood]

Everyone is guilty of something. The trick is in figuring out what.