In the Bible we see the story of the creation of the rainbow in what is called theologically the Noahic covernant. So, straight after the flood, Noah made sacrifices for his sins and the sins of his family, God gave us the rainbow promising to never again flood the world and charging us with taking the life of the life taker. Gods reason is actually provable using British statistics. It reinforces the sanctity of life.
Life has become as cheap as chips with a murder rate beyond anything there has ever been while professional policing has been a thing. Stabbings, violent attacks leading to death, abortion for any reason. It is all evidence of the fact that since we got rid of the death penalty in the mid 1960’s we have seen a steady decline in the understanding of the sanctity of life.
We have seen that callouse approach to what we should hold as precious spill over into childhood. Britain has some of the worst child sexual abuse crime rates in Europe. With relatively high rates of incest and the curse of groomin/rape gangs, plus historic officially organised accest to children for sexual abuse purposes. It is a red stain that screams out of the ground and that we need to tackle.
We have horrifying rape statistics. where nearly every woman I have ever met in the UK being able to talk about some for of sexual abuse, be that rape or harrassment.
With all of this we need to start a new police force that is tasked with proving the defendant innocent. The Judge needs to be given the power of vito to throw out any case provided that a good legal argument can be made, there needs to be a unanimous Jury vote and in the case of capitol punishment for rape and murder there needs to be a referendum on social media. This means that all capital cases need to be tried 100% publically.
In the case of Child sexual abuse. Rape. If the police force cannot disprove the allegations, a Judge is satified and a Jury is unanymous, that person needs to be taken to a room in the court and put to death instantly,
Our generation needs to be the one that pays the sacrifice, to ensure the freedom of future generations of our children.
In the case of a national vote for murder or rape 60% or more must vote for the death penalty. This is the least that the law should be doing to protect our society. Our judiciary is aisling and falling appart.
I would add that the method of execution either needs to be public (as in, anyone can walk into the facility to watch the scum hang, not building gallows in public) or sufficiently horrifying that fear keeps would-be criminals from crossing the line, and scale it based on the crime, with pedophilia having the most horrifying means of execution.
My problem with your proposal comes here. You seem to want to change the British justice system from being a confrontational system to being an investigative one. This is not part of the British legal tradition and never really has been; the judge is and should remain the finder of law, not fact.
I also don’t think that online voting should be used. The general public who may not have followed the case or may have access to evidence that was not permitted for the jury to hear should not be voting to whether someone dies as a result of conviction, not least because I can guarantee that there would be a contingent that would vote no in every single case out of belief or on sectarian grounds.
IMO, the correct solution would be a sentencing trial (maybe with a fresh jury) where things like past convictions can come in, as they would not be allowed normally, where the jury votes for death or not after the person has been found guilty. I would also accept 10-2 decisions in such a trial.
If we view death as a punishment then certainly. What separates the criminal from the response to the crime, the murder from the killing is that this must be an admission that we cannot think of a better alternative and that the other option, prison, is far too much of a burden upon the tax payer. A person who commits a life with no parole crime young could spend 60 years in prison. If the interest rate stayed as it is now that person would cost the tax payer roughly £3 million on top of their cost to society.
We kill them quickly and painlessly and admit that until we can find no alternative this is our only logical option.
strong text****strong textMy problem with the judicial system as it stands is precisely the fact that it is confrontational. For a crime where there is a potential for the death penaly we need to sure. The arresting officer tells us just how stacked against us the legal system is when he says "Anything you say, can and will be used AGAINST you, in a court of law.
If we are taking someones life we had better be damned sure we didn’t miss anything. There have been and continue to be some terrible miscarriages of justice in our current system which is proven to be no longer fit for purpose as it has become a chanel for socialist vindictivism.
Yes punish the guilty, but make sure that they are. And in the system I suggested the judge is stilll the finder of the law, but now he has two investigative arguments to sift through and a more measured opportunity to find law. How many people are wrongly in prison because a busy or a lazy defence barrister didn’t do their job properly or didn’t handle the defence presentation right. And yes there will always be those who will vote against the death penalty. God bless them for that. There will also be those who will always vote for the death penalty. However this would be a process with so many weights and balances that we can truly point to lady justice and say that all consideration has been taken in findings of this case. As soon as the national vote is found to be 60% or more in favour, that person is taken and hung, shot or drugged until they are dead live on a special chanel that brooadcasts the execution live and for the whole world to see what happens to our worst criminals in the UK.
I have lived long enough to see mistakes that have been made by Police and the Judiciary. Once you kill someone there is no way to rectify your mistake.
Just lock them away from the public and other prisoners and make them work for food.
