Never been a deterrent my arse,you can roll out all the bullshit statistics you want but nobody will tell me the prospect of that rope going around your neck ain't a deterrent. There would be some stab happy shitbags in London who's backsides would be twitching now.

It’s not a deterrent when you hang the wrong people.

This obsession for terrible punishment to be meted out is an odd one. In Germany the punishment for homicide is 5 to 15 years. They have a population 20m higher than ours, a lower murder rate and a lower prison population. So the question really is do you want to lower the murder rate - in which case the German model would be one to study or do you just want to hang people because - well just because you want to hang people I guess. In which case the US model with record incarceration rates, the death penalty and much higher murder rate is the one for you.

Just don’t pretend it has anything to do with justice or reducing crime.
 

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