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Time to bring back hanging?

  • 17-04-2019 11:45AM
    #1
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭


    Hi there

    Would you support bringing back hanging?

    Should we bring back hanging? 272 votes

    No way! I am fine with paedophiles and heroin dealers not being hanged!
    75% 205 votes
    Yes ! But only for very serious crimes.
    9% 26 votes
    Yes ! But only for very serious crimes committed by repeat offenders.
    5% 15 votes
    Yes! But only for repeat offenders.
    7% 21 votes
    Yes! But only for crimes committed by third world immigrants!
    0% 0 votes
    Yes and it should be very widely used!
    0% 2 votes
    Yes, but only for people creating stupid polls
    1% 3 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,591 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    No.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #3
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    I keep telling my kid to hang up his jacket, so yes, all in favour


  • #4
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    everytime ive to deal with some clown on the road..definitely yes.


  • #5
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    marieholmfan wrote: »
    Hi there

    Would you support bringing back hanging?
    Some great points you make in your argument.

    But no.

    Edit: Just saw the poll options. Still no.


  • #6
    Eire Go Brach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭Eire Go Brach


    Death is to easy for some of the worst scum.
    I have an alternative. Torture. Cut of all there limbs and there eyes. But take time doing it. Leave the ears. Play Barney all the time.
    This way they would be easy to maintain. Just feed them through a tube. Would require small spaces as well.


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  • #7
    salmocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Hanging is quite specific, has someone wronged you?


  • #8
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    marieholmfan wrote: »
    Hi there

    Would you support bringing back hanging?

    Why do you feel it's time to bring it back at this particular time?

    Personally it's a no for me to the death penalty, under any circumstances.

    Just saw the poll. That's the most loaded poll I've seen on Boards in a long time.


  • #9
    salmocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    I voted for the first option just to be edgy


  • #10
    francois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭francois


    marieholmfan wrote: »
    Hi there

    Would you support bringing back hanging?

    No. Ridiculous poll options as well.


  • #11
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    For starting stupid threads?

    Ok. Just this once.


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  • #12
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Zaph wrote: »
    Why do you feel it's time to bring it back at this particular time?

    Personally it's a no for me to the death penalty, under any circumstances.

    Just saw the poll. That's the most loaded poll I've seen on Boards in a long time.


    and no Atari Jaguar option either.


  • #13
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    100%, way to much scum roaming the streets these days. Not enough prison spaces, and it would be very cost effective. Society has become way too soft. There is a midpoint between killing someone who has wronged you and the namby pamby "hooman rights" nonsense we have now, and punishing someone with death for a heinous crime should be that midpoint.


  • #14
    patmahe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭patmahe


    For anything in particular or just in general? What crimes merit the taking of a life? Murder? How does the state taking a life differ from a murderer taking a life, what about mistaken identity incorrect findings by a jury etc... I'd much rather see people who commit serious crime trained up in things like road maintenance, gardening etc.. and put to work improving the society they have damaged.

    So no, I wouldn't support a return to hanging.


  • #15
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    No. I wonder about the death penalty and it's impact on murders. If you know abusing a child is going to result in your death wouldn't you kill the child to prevent identification? After all, if the penalty for murder and child abuse are the same you have nothing to lose.

    I also think from the victims point of view the mental impact on them of an abuser being put to death, especially if it's a family member, would be devastating.


  • #16
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    and no Atari Jaguar option either.

    Actually, I've changed my mind.


  • #17
    howyegettinon1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭howyegettinon1


    public torture might be better get us all down to the local square for a bit of entertainment away from the telly, be great for socializing too. torture peedos and rapists maybe a few politicians


  • #18
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Hang whoever contrived that poll.


  • #19
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Whatever about the justice involved around the matter, I guarantee the vast majority of those up for bringing back hanging would piss their pants in fear if they had to be the hangman involved. Glad to hand it off to someone else, not so much having to do it themselves.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #20
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Hanging's too good for posters who start serious threads in After Hours.


  • #21
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    No.


    Also.

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  • #22
    salmocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    The paedos and heroin dealers are well in the lead. Great day for boards democracy.

    Edit now being beaten out by the stupid poll makers even better


  • #23
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    More than 80% of respondents support the reintroduction of hanging in some form.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    marieholmfan wrote: »
    More than 80% of respondents support the reintroduction of hanging in some form.

    Your poll is ludicrous. Get real.


  • #25
    salmocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Your poll is ludicrous. Get real.

    It’s legally binding though


  • #26
    BelovedAunt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭BelovedAunt


    Eire Go Brach wrote: »
    Death is to easy for some of the worst scum.
    I have an alternative. Torture. Cut of all there limbs and there eyes. But take time doing it. Leave the ears. Play Barney all the time.
    This way they would be easy to maintain. Just feed them through a tube. Would require small spaces as well.

    That escalated quickly!


  • #27
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    No.
    I don't trust anyone to have power over life and death.


  • #28
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    marieholmfan wrote: »
    More than 80% of respondents support the reintroduction of hanging in some form.

    Currently it's 10 for no, and a combined 10 for 3 various yes options. I might have to make an exception for your maths teacher because they clearly didn't do a very good job.


  • #29
    salmocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Zaph wrote: »
    Currently it's 10 for no, and a combined 10 for 3 various yes options. I might have to make an exception for your maths teacher because they clearly didn't do a very good job.

    There have been over 50 votes, most wanting a hung stupid poll maker


  • #30
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    Zaph wrote: »
    Currently it's 10 for no, and a combined 10 for 3 various yes options. I might have to make an exception for your maths teacher because they clearly didn't do a very good job.


    I see 11 No and 41 for various forms of yes.


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  • #31
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    Ridiculous poll options.
    Anyway, my answer would be no. Because death is too good for some monsters, and because of the risk of an innocent person being wrongly convicted and subsequently killed.


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