05 Oct 11 Death Penalty: For Or Against?
When I read about cases such as Troy Davis, who was recently executed for murder, in Georgia, even though it appeared that the jurors were threatened, that someone else had confessed to the murder, and the evidence wasn’t concrete, I find myself asking how I feel about capital punishment.
Then a few days later, I read about how David Simmonds, brutally murdered Jia Ashton. Simmonds, at 6ft 2in and 19 stone, was more than three times the weight of his victim who was 4ft 11in and weighed six-and-a-half stone. Then I find myself asking why we don’t still have the death penalty in the UK, as a sub-human vermin such as Simmonds deserves no less than execution. I truly hope he is viciously beaten or murdered in jail.
Read more on Jia Ashton’s murder here
Tags: ashton, capital punishment, death penalty, execution, jurors, three times, troy davis, vermin
16 May 08 This Green And Pleasant Land
Four teenagers who kicked and stamped to death a cyclist in Bedfordshire have been jailed for life.
Stephen Green, 55, from Luton, was attacked in an underpass in Dunstable by a gang as he cycled home last May, and died in hospital nine days later.
They had been drinking strong beer and brandy and smoking pot before setting upon Mr Green.
Such a shame that the UK doesn’t have the death penalty.
Tags: bedfordshire, brandy, death penalty, dunstable, execution, murder, nine days, scum, smoking pot, such a shame, teenagers, underpass, violence
12 Mar 08 Treachery
The first act dealing with treason was passed in what became the United Kingdom in 1351, and until 1814, when it was reduced to a straighfoward hanging offence, the punishment was:
“[To] be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.”
Although no-one has been executed in the United Kingdom for any crime since 1964, when Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester were executed for the murder of John Alan West, it took until 1998 and the Crime and Disorder Act to get the punishment further downgraded to life imprisonment.
Tags: bowels, crime and disorder act, execution, faces, hurdle, life imprisonment, liverpool, owen evans, quarters, treason, united kingdom
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