We convict on evidences that puts it beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Sometimes, sometimes not - otherwise there would be no mistakes..
Rapist no, as to easy for false conviction, child torturers, yeah sure/
There aren't people waiting at the gates because the system protects criminals and victims will not know their movements.
I was randomly attacked in my youth by a mad traveller who then pretended to be mentally ill.
He served a few months and his identity was strongly protected by the authorities, starting from police and judges.
Unofficially I went into the police book as a dangerous individual looking to whack my attacker and as far as I know that stain is still unofficially there.
Possibly because I am an immigrant from the land of mafia?
Or because after the attack I told the plod to find him before me or there would've been need for an undertaker?
Did they take me that seriously?
Things are very different now-a-days, less circumstantial evidence, much more scientific evidence, some of which is indisputable.
I would not count the evidence against the likes of Lucy Letby, in that category.
Sometimes, sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
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And that's the problem
Who can forget that time Ian Hislop destroying Preti Patel on the subject on Question Time.
He's quick witted and merciless. Bulshìtting politicians get exactly what they deserve.
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So easy when you think about it
State wise the US is more or less 50 50 split on the subject That down to some states having it on it's books and refusing to apply it. One of those appears to want to refine the method - might be down to problems obtaining the chemicals needed.
UK One particular mention on this really kicked it's end off.
When looking back on an execution-free half century, we should not forget those men and women whose deaths it took to spur us towards abolition. Timothy Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his baby daughter, only for the real killer to confess three years later – the same year in which Derek Bentley was hanged despite doubts about his role in the murder of a policeman (his conviction was posthumously quashed in 1998). And in 1955, there was public outrage when Ruth Ellis was executed, not least because she had suffered incredible physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the man she killed. These manifestly unfair hangings galvanised the anti-death penalty movement and spurred parliament to suspend the death penalty in 1965.
Despite our horrific experiences with capital punishment, there are still calls to reinstate the death penalty today. It’s worth bearing in mind that if we had capital punishment, the likes of Angela Cannings and Sally Clark might have shared the same fate as Evans, Bentley and Ellis. Like Evans, they were convicted of murdering their babies, and, like Ellis, such murders flew in the face of society’s expectations of women. Cannings and Clark, though, were both released from prison when it became clear they did not commit the crimes they were convicted of. If we had the death penalty, the blood of Cannings and Clark would be on our hands.
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So we should be glad that the UK ratified the 13th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights in 2003 and abolished the death penalty in all circumstances.
There is also lots around comparing it's effectiveness as a deterrent.
UK One particular mention on this really kicked it's end off.
When looking back on an execution-free half century, we should not forget those men and women whose deaths it took to spur us towards abolition. Timothy Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his baby daughter, only for the real killer to confess three years later – the same year in which Derek Bentley was hanged despite doubts about his role in the murder of a policeman (his conviction was posthumously quashed in 1998). And in 1955, there was public outrage when Ruth Ellis was executed, not least because she had suffered incredible physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the man she killed. These manifestly unfair hangings galvanised the anti-death penalty movement and spurred parliament to suspend the death penalty in 1965.
Despite our horrific experiences with capital punishment, there are still calls to reinstate the death penalty today. It’s worth bearing in mind that if we had capital punishment, the likes of Angela Cannings and Sally Clark might have shared the same fate as Evans, Bentley and Ellis. Like Evans, they were convicted of murdering their babies, and, like Ellis, such murders flew in the face of society’s expectations of women. Cannings and Clark, though, were both released from prison when it became clear they did not commit the crimes they were convicted of. If we had the death penalty, the blood of Cannings and Clark would be on our hands.
50 years since the last execution can the UK help end the death penalty worldwide?
On the 50th anniversary of the last executions to take place in the UK, Dr Bharat Malkani, a lecturer in Birmingham Law School, examines why British efforts to promote the worldwide abolition of capital punishment should be supported.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
So we should be glad that the UK ratified the 13th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights in 2003 and abolished the death penalty in all circumstances.
There is also lots around comparing it's effectiveness as a deterrent.
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Who decides it is a clear cut case? The courts?
Those people who have got it wrong before ?
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Exactly!!