Bring back the Death Penalty: Former High Court President

[Sesna]

I'm totally against the death penalty. It's a regressionist law, which degrades the perpetrators of it. As an earlier poster wrote, how could any Irish person support it, especially after the injustices of the British establishment towards innocent Irish men & women.

I think it was Churchill (Not sure though) who said you should measure a civilized society by how they treat their most hated members.

I would certainly save a huge amount of money to quickly execute a prisoner rather than incarcerate them for many years at great expense to the taxpayer.

[Sir Patrick Spens]

I would certainly save a huge amount of money to quickly execute a prisoner rather than incarcerate them for many years at great expense to the taxpayer.

I think the issue has far wider connotations than saving money. If it's a matter of money that your worried about, why not look into ending the greed & corruption of our countries establishment & the wasteful spending of our politicians.

I think you'd get more money back from those illustrious paragons than in "quickly executing a prisoner", to quote your good self.

[eskerman]

I am personally against the death penalty, its going back in time when the barbarians were ruling. We have to try and keep this "civilised" society on track, a lot of the problems are drug related now and we need to try and deal with the root causes.

I dont think locking people in prisons with all the perks of the modern prison available, I think we need to find ways of them paying something back for costs of keeping them in jail ( I think its about 100k/Year) Maybe the Irish army who seem to do very little in the main could be put to work as chain gangs getting these criminals to do some work for the money they cost taxpayers.

Slightly off topic but I dont agree with the death penalty on this island