General Chat

You can't 'unhang' someone if you get it wrong..there was 'no doubt' in the Kisko case... had hanging still been around he would have hung..but he didn't do it.

Nothing to do with the heart ruling the head, my head would tell me the same as my heart ... that my instinct is not to let someone suffer for a few minutes for the "heinous crimes" (of which they are actually guilty of course) but to wring out every last second of their lives until they pray for death as the only release ( I'm nice like that :-D).

I never bought Hindley's conversion, if it had been genuine she would never have asked for parole.

he should of died years ago
But even the devill doesnt want him let him rot :-( :-(

how many more kids did they kill that they havent been found guilty of

I don't reckon even he knows where he buried that poor child!

supercrutch - Quite agree with your comments. Sometimes I get the feeling that some people let their hearts rule their heads and forget about the heinousness of the crimes that were committed.

Porkie Pie - Murderers in the USA do spend years on death row before they are executed which leads to large financial burdens. Prior to the death penalty being abolished in this country I believe that executions were carried out within three Sundays after sentence which meant that the cost would have been extremely low.

Did you hear the tapes?

I always thought that the jury members were so unlucky to have to listen to that. It is a chance that lawyers take but jurors are just people whose name has been drawn.

Having heard the sick tapes I would have had no doubts that they BOTH deserved the death penalty.

The pair of them strung out the possibility of locating the burial sites for long enough.

But hey, they both found religion whilst in prison........which meant............
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO THEM and the agony Winnie Johnson must feel every minute of every day.

Ken, I don't think you can compare the USA and this country when it comes to the cost,

in the US these prisoners can be kept on death row for years which adds to the cost,

Roy

I doubt you would Jill. It is all he has left to bargain with,his one bit of power and,if necessary,he will take that knowledge,if indeed he still has it,to the grave.

and the poor guy Timothy Evans who was hanged for the murders that Ronald Christie did in 10 Rillington Place - Christie was the prime witness for the prosecution - he was a special constable!!!

Ian Brady on the other hand was deffo guilty as was his rotten accomplice who lived a life of riley in prison

I too feel for the poor mother of Keith Bennet but Brady is anda lways has been quite mad - years ago when I was working at our local psychiatric hospital one of our senior nurses went to Broadmoor with one of our patients and he saw Brady at that time - twenty odd years ago, and when he came back he told us that he was as mad as a box of frogs

I wonder how many mothers like me are of the opinion that if we had just a short while with this excuse for a human being, we would get that poor boy's location out of him. But I forgot. It would be against his human rights.

The death penalty does not necessarily save money.
eg
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

Okay you all have a valid point but at the time of these murders I would say that the majority of people in Great Britain would have wanted these two people executed there and then. I don't believe for one minute that Brady will ever divulge the whereabouts of Keith's body and I honestly feel sorry for his mother. My heart goes out to her.

I agree with Sharon. The idea of anyone being executed in a civilised society sends cold shivers up my spine, but an innocent person - well, that's unspeakable.
Jan

How sad that we didn't keep Derek Bentley alive, although our society would have done very little of any more kindness to the poor man.

Force feeding is not what I'd call "comfortable" ...

However his being kept alive ( and Hindley) gave the only possible chance for the mother of Keith Bennett to find her son's body...for the chance of that, I think every penny spent was worth it, and death? what would that have been to Brady? The easy way out.

Keith Bennetts mother longs to give her son a proper family funeral and has lived in hope of Brady leading the police to his remains. While there's life there's hope for her.

"Her one and only desire is to give her son a proper family burial during her lifetime."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18685127

My point is that if capital punishment had still been in force at the time it probably would have saved millions of pound of taxpayers money in keeping this man to a comfortable life for the past 40-odd years

Not sure what your point is GeordiePride?
Jan

too much - I would have been more than happy despatch him with just one bullet years ago!!!

He has been transferred to a hospital where he is being treated for a possible seizure.
How much has it cost the taxpayer for all the years he has been imprisoned for the vile crimes he committed ?