[Helen 28]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

mmm, I'm not 100% opposed to it when you have people like say that Polish man who raped and murdered that 9 year old girl in France, where there's DNA evidence and he actually confessed to it as well

That was an horrific crime and I agree.

I have a theory and it's this :

A criminal who is being given a very long sentence in court could be asked on the day if he rather be executed.
He or she could be given a time to think about it and I firmly believe that someone faced with 30 odd years would often rather have it ended quickly.

Nobody could say they were executed by mistake, seems a good idea to me although we know it will never happen.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Helen 28

That was an horrific crime and I agree.

I have a theory and it's this :

A criminal who is being given a very long sentence in court could be asked on the day if he rather be executed.
He or she could be given a time to think about it and I firmly believe that someone faced with 30 odd years would often rather have it ended quickly.

Nobody could say they were executed by mistake, seems a good idea to me although we know it will never happen.

Well, my thinking behind cases like that one I just mentioned is more protecting other people by executing him rather then getting vengeance. I mean life never actually seems to mean life so monsters like that man should be taken out to protect people more than anything else. Yours is an interesting idea though

[bots]

Not wishing to seem harsh, but if the 2 men hadn't been caught, they would have carried on organising mules to do their dirty work for them for years to come. When faced with the prospect of the death penalty, anyone will look to the rehabilitation card if they think its their last possible prospect of avoiding the firing squad.

The penalty is harsh, no disputing that, but Indonesia need to do something to stamp the problem out.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Helen 28

That was an horrific crime and I agree.

I have a theory and it's this :

A criminal who is being given a very long sentence in court could be asked on the day if he rather be executed.
He or she could be given a time to think about it and I firmly believe that someone faced with 30 odd years would often rather have it ended quickly.

Nobody could say they were executed by mistake, seems a good idea to me although we know it will never happen.

..one thing with that though is that there are sometimes cases where people have confessed to crimes they didn't commit because of their mental state...there was one quite recently in America I believe, he wasn't executed but spent most of his life in prison when he was indeed innocent but confessed because of his mental health at the time....

[Helen 28]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..one thing with that though is that there are sometimes cases where people have confessed to crimes they didn't commit because of their mental state...there was one quite recently in America I believe, he wasn't executed but spent most of his life in prison when he was indeed innocent but confessed because of his mental health at the time....

Quite true, but I'm sure that mental health professionals would be able to sort them out and they could be denied the choice.
The amount of prisoners you're talking about is tiny anyway.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Helen 28

Quite true, but I'm sure that mental health professionals would be able to sort them out and they could be denied the choice.
The amount of prisoners you're talking about is tiny anyway.

..but mental health professionals didn't do that in this case because he spent many years in prison so then it would be, how long would a convicted criminal be in prison before the choice was offered/how long until they knew for sure...and however long that was, it would still be left open for being wrong...and really only a tiny percentage would be wrong, surely because basically an innocent person would have been assisted suicide...I just think we can't think ..oh well, there might be a few mistakes but whatever, type thing...