Death penalty

[Captain Kong]

I have watched some Executions

I went ashore in Saudi with our Agent, we were stopped by the police at the square and made to join a crowd, including school kids,. three men were to be Beheaded for raping a boy.
Everyone is forced to watch, three had to kneel down on a white sheet, the Executioner with a sword did a dance around the Victims and then wallop, a head falls off, a clean stroke, a fountain of blood, the man rolls over, The crowd Cheer, He has to cut it off in one stroke. then the next one and again.
quite gruesome, but the crowd enjoyed it.
In Padang Sumatra in 1960 an American Pilot whose plane had been shot down was stood against a godown wall and a firing squad shot him right alongside our ship.
it is in my story, "A VOYAGE TO THE SPICE ISLANDS",.
Of those, Hanging is a better way to go
Brian

[Doc Vernon]

Vernon, not 500 meters from where we live there is a man on $2 million bail for drug related activity.
He is we believe involved with the big drug bust of this week.

Crime here is of little evidence compared with so many other countries, most of the ones here in Vic are either drug or alcohol related.
Greater majority of those involved are of some ethnic nationality.

John my friend you must take into consideration the Populations of each Country to get the true Picture of the Crime rate.
With Australia being such a massive place but very sparsley inhabited as things go, the Crime rate here is High!
Google a few Figures on this around the World as far as Population is concerned and you will see what i mean
Cheers

Would not like to think what it would be if we had a population of the UK ????? eEEEEEK!!

[happy daze john in oz]

I agree there Vernon, but we do not have the crime of murder in any rate compared to other nations.
But we do have a very high rate of family violence and violence against Police, Ambos, and hospital staff.

Then we have the polis who commit crimes against all of us, just look at the tax system.

[John Pruden]

if you look at america the death penalty do's nothing to curb murders some countries once verdict is passed you are hung/shot strait away some on death row america die of old age? jp

[j.sabourn]

Think it’s only some of the states have the death penalty John .. JS

[Captain Kong]

28 states out of 50 have the deathe penalty in the USA

[John Gill]

Would be interesting Kong to see if the remaining 22 states had comparable capital murder offences.

[j.sabourn]

Just as. Interesting to see where the perpetrators were arrested and charged , and which state they were prosecuted in. JS.

[John F Collier]

Mostly this thread is about the Death Penalty being used to punish murderers in the UK, but many people have died simply for having
the "Wrong Religeon" , people have been urnt at the stake and been Martyr'd because they wouldn't renounce their religion, or for being
accused of Witchcraft on the flimsiest evidence, but mostly on lies, Mathew Hopkins was a "Witch Hunter" and self proclaimed "Witch
Finder General" he was probabley nothing more than a sadist, at York in 1556 Margaret Citherow "a Catholic" would not admit to hiding
Catolic preist, she was dragged into the street, stripped naked, then had a heavy door placed upon her, heavy stones/rocks were placed on
the door until she was crushed to death, in the 1970s she was made a Saint ,b the Pope of that time, Juveniles have been hung in England
for crimes that woult now be very petty, you think it couldn't get worse but it did, In the 19th century they decided on a fate worse than death,,
"THEY SENT THE POOR BUGGERS TO AUSTRALIA" , cheers.

[John Pruden]

yes john to populate the country steeling a loaf when starving or an apple same as press gangs i still have a putter pot with glass bottom in case the kings shilling was slipped into it we never had clean hands but that was the empire for you? jp