Another example of why the death penalty is flawed

Thanks bud.

 

Derek Bentley wasn't the last to be hanged, the last execution was a simultaneous hanging of two men convicted of the same murder... Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen, one at Liverpool, one in Manchester in August 1964.

 

Thanks mate,love being informed on history,wish I took more notice at school,the older I get the more I wanna learn.

 

"Bentley said to Craig, "Let him have it Chris"
They still don't know today just what he meant by this
Craig fired the pistol, but was too young to swing
So the police took Bentley and the very next thing"
...
"Well it's hard to imagine it's the times that have changed
(String him up)
When there's a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange
(String him up)
If killing anybody is a terrible crime
(String him up)
Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come 'round from time to time?"
- Let Him Dangle, Elvis Costello

Every time this comes around, I always say that ~10% of those convicted and sentenced to death in the USA since the 1970s are later exonerated. This includes a number after the sentence is carried out. As someone has already mentioned, the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 would have been hanged if the judge could have passed that sentence. There will be other, less high profile cases.

And executing someone (in USA) costs more than keeping them in prison for the rest of their life.

 

I couldn't press a button,not for money,I don't go to church(used to be in the church choir when I was a lad)used to get £1.75 for weddings and funerals,but just in case there's an hell I think us English have been talking about assisting death for the terminally I'll, really slow death I suppose embarrassing for poor folk who's got it and painful I think,not sure of the diseases name,a former rugby player died of it recently,but who's gonna inject them or give em a fatal pill,as much as I'm for assisted death if the poor folk suffering want to die,I don't think I could assist them.