Should Ireland reintroduce capital punishment?

bananarama22 wrote: »

Sorry Mods if there is a thread on this already. And feel free to move to another forum if need be.

For violent crimes I seriously believe that capital punishment should exist in this country, for crimes such as murder, rape, drug dealing, gang membership, several criminal records, espionage/treason and perjury resulting in the imprisonment of an innocent person.

I was just reading this article and I can understand that execution was postponed due her being pregnant, as killing her while pregnant is essentially a forced abortion. But I am absolutely gob-smacked that her execution has been reduced to life without parole.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/16/sacramento-mom-accused-of-microwaving-baby-pleads-not-guilty/

Again mods, sorry if there is a similar thread so feel free to lock / move or pm me if there is an issue.

How very liberal of you :pac: You want to kill people for perjury?

Confab wrote: »

But state sanctioned murder is quite normal, otherwise what's the army for?

What???

The army, in theory, is for defending a country. Whilst that's not always what it's used for, that's what it's supposed to be for. Not slaughtering people. When was the last time the Irish army murdered someone?

I agree OP, bring it in. For the most serious of crimes only of course.
Criminas in this ountry hav escillated their activities and clearly do not fer the justice system. Lets give them something to fear.

I used to believe in an eye for an eye. However as has happened time and time again people have been found to be inncocent after new evidence pops up, advances in DNA, investigative techniques etc. Death is too immediate and final.

I do believe in labour camps though. Let these muderous, thieving, raping scumbags give something back to society bu making them clean roads, build schools or whatever. It would save a lot of labour costs, they may learn a skill should they ever get released. I know it is not very practical and there would be security cost for having crims outside prison walls cleaning up somewhere or building a rd but I would rather that than paying to have them sit on their arsehole in a cell doing nothing.

:rolleyes:


great mind think alike!!

There have been many threads on this before.

• Executing someone costs more than incarcerating them for life.
• Stats show that it is an ineffective deterrent for serious crimes.
• Many innocent people have had their names cleared after years of imprisonment due to the advancement of technology. The death penalty will mean killing innocent people.

bananarama22 wrote: »

Then tell the EU to fcek off :-P
Some of the hard-right politicians in the UK want to reinstate it.

They'd be telling us to do that.

There are always right-wing politicians, and brainless tabloid readers who want the death penalty reintroduced, but thankfully those Neanderthals never get a look in.

bananarama22 wrote: »

Without sounding facetious, a firing squad consisting of 10 people, (with approximately €2 per bullet ?? ) .. the guns are obviously reusable. Keeping a prisoner in jail costs several thousand per year alone. If the death penalty will never be reintroduced, I would like to see forced labout as one previous gentleman on this thread suggested. But oviously the over zealous civil service and unions would get their knickers in a twist with their "dey tuk er jerbs" jive.

The costs are mainly legal. It's not just a case of taking the accused and leading him out the door to be killed. There's a lot more to it than that, and rightly so.