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I have to agree, it's not like the middle ages where the village decides who to burn as a witch. I don't think the Birmingham 6 or Guildford 4 would have been executed though, because they were under continuing appeal. There are just some extreme acts of inhumanity that even the most rational...

The worst thing you can do to someone is make them face their own death and they should face theirs. Cases like the Tia Sharpe murderer Stuart Hazell should pay the ultimate price. They need to count down the last weeks of their lives knowing their fate of going into a room knowing that they...

This is very you, but you may be on to something :lolol:

By the way not all murderers have such a hard life: Yorkshire Ripper Jimmy Savile

Those cases were always under appeal so I don't think they would have been executed.

The thing is if you are the parents of a child who was murdered, an execution of the murderer can be seen as closure. If the releatives choose for them to not be executed that should be their wish, however if they believe that closure for them will be the result then I think it is down to them.

I can sort of understand the point that the people who have to carry out the executions can have a psychological impact on them. Not all of them handle it well later in life.

Me neither.

Does anyone have any sympathy for this botched execution? Clayton Lockett, confessed to shooting and burying alive a teenage girl in 1999. Tuesday night’s botched execution in Oklahoma, resulted in an inmate’s writhing death from a heart attack 43 minutes after he received what was supposed to...