Protesters outside court as Rigby's killers due to be sentenced

[Tecumsehsbones]

:lol:



For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
--H.L. Mencken

VERY good!

Of course, for capital punishment it's much easier. Just change the evidentiary standards.

You gotta admit, "We must ban capital punishment because some innocent people are executed" sounds an awful lot like "We must ban penicillin because some people have a fatal allergic reaction."

 

[L Gilbert]

VERY good!

Of course, for capital punishment it's much easier. Just change the evidentiary standards.

You gotta admit, "We must ban capital punishment because some innocent people are executed" sounds an awful lot like "We must ban penicillin because some people have a fatal allergic reaction."

Hey! Don't be sounding like Stretch now. People may get the wrong idea.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Hey! Don't be sounding like Stretch now. People may get the wrong idea.

Yuh-huh. Sure. You bet. Gotcha. You can count on me.

 

[Zipperfish]

VERY good!

Of course, for capital punishment it's much easier. Just change the evidentiary standards.

You gotta admit, "We must ban capital punishment because some innocent people are executed" sounds an awful lot like "We must ban penicillin because some people have a fatal allergic reaction."

Well penicillin has a benefit. Killing someone for a crime--not so much. I admit in certain instances, it would feel pretty good on a visceral level, especially for cases like this.

Instead of changing the evidentiary standards, just make it so the governor hangs if it turns out an innocent man in his state was hanged.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Well penicillin has a benefit. Killing someone for a crime--not so much. I admit in certain instances, it would feel pretty good on a visceral level, especially for cases like this.

Instead of changing the evidentiary standards, just make it so the governor hangs if it turns out an innocent man in his state was hanged.

I've thought of that one. Or possibly the judge.

Either way, I'm a big believer in the salutary benefits of capital punishment.

 

[lone wolf]

In this case, making martyrs would be the greater evil. Making them just two more doofuses in cages makes them just two more doofuses in cages

 

[darkbeaver]

The innocent may be determined simply by putting them in a bran sack and tossing them in a canal. The innocent always sink.

 

[EagleSmack]

In this case, making martyrs would be the greater evil. Making them just two more doofuses in cages makes them just two more doofuses in cages

lol.

 

[damngrumpy]

There is a litany terrorist acts committed by people who think they can
circumvent the law. There are others out there that protect these people
as well, and in cases where that happens charge them with the same
offense in sentencing.
The new laws for people who did this despicable crime to the soldier should
be hanged in public, and those who protected them in anyway. sort of like making
a day of it if we have enough guilty parties. Wait was this ot the way the Taliban
conducted Sunday at the soccer field?
seriously enough is enough its time time crack down.

 

[L Gilbert]

oops

 

[Colpy]

"It's Not a Betrayal of Islam" :: SteynOnline

 

[Mowich]

I am pretty anti-killing but even I sometimes think some "humans" just beg for the most miserable deaths. Fortunately, I am anti-killing and think a very, very, long life of total misery would be better than a death.

I am of the same mind, LG. I do however, have to pause a very very long time when it comes to psychopaths. For those types I think total sensory deprivation and absolutely no human contact might be a decent sentence.

This is great news.

Until you realize that they are not alone in their hatred.

It's not the hanging murderers that bugs people, so much as hanging the innocent. I mean, I'm sure it took a lot of balls to hang them witches in Salem (or in England), but I don't think testicular fortitude became the issue ultimately, so much as the fact the women hanged were not guilty.

Personally, I don't think it took 'balls' to hand witches, zipper. It was fear that hung those women.

Well penicillin has a benefit. Killing someone for a crime--not so much. I admit in certain instances, it would feel pretty good on a visceral level, especially for cases like this.

Instead of changing the evidentiary standards, just make it so the governor hangs if it turns out an innocent man in his state was hanged.

Well I was with you until that 'governor' thing. :smile:

 

[taxslave]

I am of the same mind, LG. I do however, have to pause a very very long time when it comes to psychopaths. For those types I think total sensory deprivation and absolutely no human contact might be a decent sentence.



Until you realize that they are not alone in their hatred.



Personally, I don't think it took 'balls' to hand witches, zipper. It was fear that hung those women.



Well I was with you until that 'governor' thing. :smile:

Fear and a desire to divvy up the supposed witches possessions. Like their land.

 

[Mowich]

In this case, making martyrs would be the greater evil. Making them just two more doofuses in cages makes them just two more doofuses in cages

:thumbup::thumbup:

 

[Blackleaf]

 

[Blackleaf]

Adebolajo has applied to appeal against his whole life sentence.

I doubt he'll get very far.


Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo launches appeal


BBC News
8 April 2014

Michael Adebolajo described himself as a "soldier of Allah"

Michael Adebolajo, who was given a whole-life sentence for the murder of soldier Lee Rigby, has launched an appeal against his sentence.

Adebolajo, 29, together with Michael Adebowale, 22, drove into Fusilier Rigby with a car before hacking him to death in Woolwich, south-east London.

At the time judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, said Adebolajo's was a "rare case" which warranted a whole-life term.

The Muslim converts had "butchered" the 25-year-old soldier, he said.

In court Adebolajo from Romford, east London denied murder, and described the killing as a "military operation", claiming that he was a "soldier of Allah".

But after hearing about the attack on 22 May last year, the jury took 90 minutes to find them both guilty.

BBC News - Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo launches appeal