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Quote from: JBR on Yesterday at 10:16:59 AMI believe so.  I remember reading an article, or it might have been a book, about him and his professionalism.  He had, apparently, done his homework thoroughly and was indeed a professional hangman.
If I should ever receive such a death sentence, that is the method I would certainly choose given the chance!

Talking of which, I wonder whether hanging may eventually come back into use in the UK.  Crime is apparently becoming more common recently, and a serious deterrent (other than a couple of days in jail) would, I am sure, help to reduce such crimes as we now hear of

I still don't like the thought of hanging,  it seems so medieval somehow,  might as well go back to beheading,  that should be quick enough!

While I do agree with the death sentence for the worst crimes,    I still feel euthanasia by injection is most appropriate - BUT,  only when the drugs have first been checked for content, and then only in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing!

The seemingly systematic derailing of this site by extremists.

I would support bringing back hanging. There are far too many murders and serious crimes being committed in our country. It's more humane than keeping a person locked up for yeas and years; if we let them out they often do it again. Although hanging was de facto abolished in England in 1957. it could not be restored whilst under the EU rule. Margaret Thatcher offered it to parliament (she advocated it) but they voted it down.

Death by hanging is not instantaneous. Neither a broken neck nor asphyxiation causes immediate death. A hanged man dies from asphyxiation in about four or five minutes. As far as I know, not having tried it.

When they hanged Saddam they put silk in the noose so it wouldn't graze him.

Isn't that PEW ? 

It would also reduce the prison population .
Why we keep heinous proven murderers alive for the next five decades in many cases is madness .
Where i in charge of prisons eg the Lee Rigby killers or the Southport murdered of those little girls .
All heinous proven murderers would be humanely euthanised .
I would attach the syringes to a button outside the prison so that any member of the public's could press to start the fatal dose .
In fact several buttons so that no one would know who had finished off these useless burdens on society .
Would free up no end of space and reduce the financial burden in the taxpayers  ( which include the victims families ) 

Something that annoys me is this tendency to refer to human excrement as "poo". Even the NHS writes it in their leaflets. Poo. I ask you how babyish can they get? It drives me nuttier than squirrel er... poo.

Everyone should know that POO is what you shit in in church.

Quote from: morty on Yesterday at 12:19:48 AMThat's the weird bit ...
What the neighbour did is illegal ... yet he managed to sell the land on .... with approved planning permission for a 5 bedroom house and someone was daft enough to buy it.

The lady who owns the other half has her insurance company taking on the local council but quite honestly, I wouldn't feel safe living in that house.

I agree.   Neither would I.
Neither would I want the noise and intrusion of builders banging about that close to my home all day.

Quote from: muddy on October 02, 2026, 09:35:28 PMI think it had to be a real expert like Pierrepoint who took great pains ( no pun intended ) to make sure his clients were dispatched humanely .
He calculated the weight needed to make death almost instant .
 

I believe so.  I remember reading an article, or it might have been a book, about him and his professionalism.  He had, apparently, done his homework thoroughly and was indeed a professional hangman.
If I should ever receive such a death sentence, that is the method I would certainly choose given the chance!

Talking of which, I wonder whether hanging may eventually come back into use in the UK.  Crime is apparently becoming more common recently, and a serious deterrent (other than a couple of days in jail) would, I am sure, help to reduce such crimes as we now hear of.

Is it safe? - I'm not a property surveyor but in the first and secod world wars, a number of terraced houses where I grew up, were bombed by the Germans, and it struck me that the chimneys were always left intact by whoever completed the demolition.

Make of that what you will.

P.S. You can imagine me asking my father why they put a fireplace on the outside.