Public Executions - Would you attend?

[dan1981]

If public executions were brought back in the UK would you attend?

Basically - in light of quite a few threads on here i'm just wondering how many people would go along for a days entertainment and watch a hanging / electrocution / stoning / whatever was decided as suitable?

Edited by dan1981 on Tuesday 30th December 23:48

Edited by dan1981 on Tuesday 30th December 23:49

[Hedders]

no.

[anonymous-user]

depends what they had done and if i agreed it with valid punishment

[LDNrevs]

No, it shouldn't be made a spectacle.

[Ganglandboss]

I don't agree one bit with capital punishment but I think I would attend, just out of morbid curiosity.

[pwd95]

Bring it back for kiddy fiddlers & I recon you'd fill a stadium every week. The revenue could go towards running the rest of the prison system.

[ewenm]

Why would I want to watch the state kill someone? Entertainment? No thanks.

[Rach*]

50/50 at the mo'!

[glazbagun]

ewenm said:

Why would I want to watch the state kill someone? Entertainment? No thanks.

+1000

[robwales]

No. Why on earth would I want to do that?

[Tom55]

absolutely not

[Gingerbread Man]

To put a spin on things....

Would you go to watch the execution if the crime was personal to you in some way? Say if the person had killed a family member?

Like you can go watch the electric chair in America.

[ewenm]

Gingerbread Man said:

To put a spin on things....

Would you go to watch the execution if the crime was personal to you in some way? Say if the person had killed a family member?

Like you can go watch the electric chair in America.

Still no.

Would you visit them in jail if that was the sentence rather than death?

[Glassman]

I voted no.

But in view of what gingerbread posted... hmmm... still no.

[deeps]

No.

I would like to see the return of capital and corporal punishments, but definately not for spectators amusement.

[Geoffers]

I agree with bringing back the Death Penalty for certain individuals (ie paedophilles etc), but would not feel the need to go and watch!
That being said, I would happily dispatch anyone who hurt my family without any hesitation!!

[Gingerbread Man]

ewenm said:

Gingerbread Man said:

To put a spin on things....

Would you go to watch the execution if the crime was personal to you in some way? Say if the person had killed a family member?

Like you can go watch the electric chair in America.

Still no.

Would you visit them in jail if that was the sentence rather than death?

I wouldn't go see a public execution either way.

I just wondered if people could be emotionally swayed to go. Something more on a personal level as opposed to Sunday morning entertainment.

[anonymous-user]

ewenm said:

Gingerbread Man said:

To put a spin on things....

Would you go to watch the execution if the crime was personal to you in some way? Say if the person had killed a family member?

Like you can go watch the electric chair in America.

Still no.

Would you visit them in jail if that was the sentence rather than death?

You would have to sit there for a long time to watch them serve there sentence.

I guess its more of an instant relief if the said person is executed. (if they had done something to your family, murder etc)

[Mars]

I wouldn't watch but that doesn't mean I don't endorse capital punishment.

[porcupineprince]

Mars said:

I wouldn't watch but that doesn't mean I don't endorse capital punishment.

Agreed.