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  • 63 of 63 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Hishyeness

    Member since 09/03/2009

    Reviews written: 214

    1 Star How Many Is Too Many? 14/11/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None. It has no place in modern, civilised society.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Life is sacred. The execution of even one innocent is too high a price to pay.

    INTRODUCTION On 13th July 1955, a fine summer’s morning, Ruth Ellis, a 28 year old nightclub manageress convicted of murdering her lover, David Blakely, sat in the condemned cell at Holloway Prison with a priest and her guards as the clock approached nine o’clock. She was given a large tot of brandy to calm her nerves. Thirty seconds before the appointed hour, the state hangman, Albert Pierrepoint entered with his assistant, Royston Rickard, asked Ellis to stand and bound her hands behind her back with a leather strap. At the far end of the room, a wardrobe was wheeled away to reveal a ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 thedevilinme

    Member since 13/05/2008

    Reviews written: 1475

    3 Stars If they kill and kill again its lethal jab time! Review with images 15/08/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A deterent would cut the mass murder rate in the UK

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Innocent people could be hung

    In the Yemen, a baron country riddled with Islamic extremist and bandits, there was a rash of kidnappings in the nineties, including foreign tourists, usually in the more tribal regions. The problem peaked in 1997 with over 1400 of these incidents, averaging 35 foreign nationals a year. The most infamous incident saw a tour bus of 14 Europeans taken by hardcore Al-Quieda types, brutal and determined to capture the Infidel. If the ransom wasn't paid they were sometimes killed. With what little foreign tourism the country had left by then something had to be done. The Yemeni government reacted ... more
  • 45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 hiker

    Member since 28/03/2003

    Reviews written: 515

    1 Star Justice or Vengeance? 09/07/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages ?

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Unsafe, futile, immoral

    Is capital punishment wrong? At this stage of our evolution: YES. Because at this stage of our evolution, as a species and as a society, we still make mistakes. Not the innocent mistakes of a witness under stress mis-remembering what (s)he saw on a dark night, but the systemic mistakes that result in a police force so focussed on targets and league tables and funding that they need a conviction more than they need the right conviction; systemic mistakes that enable the CPS to take over a private prosecution and then drop the case. However we might feel about “English Justice”, we ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    madchillie

    1 Star The Death Penalty- Should it be brought back? 09/04/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Effective form of punishment

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not at all ethical

    Imagine a man whose hair is shaved off. He is being strapped to a chair with belts that cross his chest, groin, legs and arms. A metal skullcap-shaped electrode is attached to the scalp. Then imagine a man pulling a handle. Suddenly the prisoner's eyeballs begin to pop out and rest on his cheeks. He defecates, urinates, vomits blood and drools. As 2000 volts surge through him, his body turns bright red. His flesh swells, his skin stretches so much that it looks as if it will snap. Then imagine steam or smoke rising from his body, the smell of burning flesh, like bacon on a frying pan… Then ... more
  • 90 of 90 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 torr

    Member since 29/08/2002

    Reviews written: 347

    1 Star Oranges and Lemons are not the only fruit 21/04/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Here comes a candle to light you to bed

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Here comes a chopper to chop off your head

    This opinion wasn’t intended to be about capital punishment. That just turned out to be the way the words led me as I responded to a prompt from Janet McKitterick: “The rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’ has a reference to the bells of Old Bailey - well, the Old Bailey is a road - it doesn't have bells! The prison didn't have a bell - except for a hand held execution bell, so what did the rhyme refer to? It's actually the church called St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.” (jmckitterick in her op about The Old Bailey) " ‘Oranges and Lemons said the bells of St Sepulchre ... more
  • 30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    angiebabyqueen

    5 Stars innocent till proven guilty 04/06/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages might bring down crime rates

    Disadvantages Disadvantages you kill innocent people

    How should criminals be punished? well,I had to to an assignment for religious education recently and thought that I might just publish this on ciao to see what sort of level I should get for this assignment, be as truthfully honest and brutal as you must please. Thanks. Introduction Muslims, Christians, and even non religious people all have different views on how criminals should be punished. Like if we asked three different religious people questions, what would their answers be to the questions? For example, we could ask them which crimes should be punished more than others and how should ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Jen599

    1 Star Capital Punishment 28/05/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Person can never harm again, victims may feel safer

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Many

    I was recently reading reviews in this catagory and i thought that it was an interesting topic, and thought i would write my own. Although I'm sure many people wont share my views or opinions, I wanted to put them across. I hope it is in some way interesting : ) First off, i would have to say that yes, capital punishment is wrong. I don't think that kiliing another human can be justified, but i do think that prison should be tougher, and the sentencing changed. There are many reaons why i do not agree with capital punishment, one being the fact that it is difficult to be 100% sure that you are ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Rampant_Ross

    1 Star Capital Punishment...Yes or No? 04/03/2010
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages ...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages ...

    The following is to be written as a dialog between two opposing people on the argument of capital punishment. The names I have chose have no significant meaning, I just fancied using Greek names to make it look more like something you'd find in Plato's book the Republic, I also fancied writing it a bit different to how others do, and if people like this style you might see Tamas and Agatone coming back for another argument. Tamas - I turn to you now Agatone to discuss the role of capitol punishment in our society; I for one believe that it should be reincorporated into our system as it serves ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Coloneljohn

    Member since 11/06/2004

    Reviews written: 415

    4 Stars Restitution or Revenge 21/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Some relief for victims

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sometimes doubts

    Here is a controversial subject that I can guarantee that not everybody will agree upon. I am going to upset some people with my views. I will explain at the end. Consider. We all have seen pictures of the statue of justice that is on top of The Old Bailey in London. It is, needless to say, a symbol of justice. The statue of justice has three outstanding features; the blindfold around the eyes, the scales in one hand and a sword held in the other. But what do these features really symbolise. Blindfold. This symbol tells us that justice doesn't prefer one above another. Justice is impartial and ... more
  • 54 of 54 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    chachaqueen

    1 Star The emotive and the dead 03/07/2003
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Less crowded prisons, less fear

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Loss of our humanity

    Well, here I am at my 50th op! I decided that I was going to break with tradition and not write about ciao, I decided on a controversial subject area instead! Capital punishment is a very emotive issue. It brings out very extreme opinions in a wide range of people and sometimes from the most surprising sources! Often the extreme crimes that some people commit produce such a strong emotional response, that we can all see why some people support capital punishment so strongly. I think I can safely say, that despite the pain they cause, most people would not suggest capital punishment for crimes ... more
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