Jacob Crouch

But then you're introducing a different burden of proof which will open all sorts of cans of worms. As it stands all convictions are beyond reasonable doubt anyway, so introducing a new additional test of certainty will cause problems and undermine convictions where the jury convicts but can't agree on the death penalty. Also DNA testing isn't infallible.

And aside from that I just don't see the attraction of the death penalty. The only thing it achieves is revenge, and a modern enlightened society should be above killing its citizens out of retribution.

 

don’t get me wrong I’m not massively for the death penalty , but this case turns my stomach, so I would be.
They would have to convince me that he wasn’t ever going to get out via some do gooder and that he would have no pleasure at all. Sub humans like him just don’t count.

 

I get that but what would your answer to my question be?

 

tbh I’m not sure, I get that he wouldn’t be ‘popular’ with the other inmates, but if it was me and I was on a ‘special’ wing with no danger and had a plentiful supply of books and stuff personally I would go with that rather than execution.
But then , I don’t even like going to the dentist!

 

Fair enough, I personally wouldn't as never being free and able to go outside, do stuff would be hell. And that's why I think we shouldn't have it. If it acts as a deterrent, then prison does its job.

 

If I was the parents of one a child killed by one of these monsters like Huntly or whiting I think I would want revenge. Anyone like that or someone who's taken another life shouldn't be released.

 

I'm sure you're intelligent enough to know what i meant , aren't you ?