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Would you be infavor if McDowell annouced he was bringing back the death penalty.
David McCann
For a start, no Minister for Justice and even no government can just bring it back...
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Well ok ill reword it.
What if mcdowell proposed a referendum on the death penalty.
David McCann
I see the need for a death penalty where there is a complete breakdown of civil order and the state and general welfare come under threat from subversive would-be tyrants. It's not a deterrent to threaten to lock people up for years when they think their mates are going to seize power.
But the only circumstance I can imagine where that comes about is after a nuclear war. And nobody will be paying too much attention to the Constitution then anyhow.
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I would be against bringing it back. Remember the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four. They would have been executed if the death-penalty had still been around. Think on that.
I don't believe the death penalty should ever be re-instituted in Ireland. I think McDowell would be on the receiving end of one if he proposed such a referendum.
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Not in favour. There have been too many cases of wrongdoing overturned on appeal, and too many cases of unsatisfactory Garda evidence, to even contemplate the return of such a barbaric and final punishment.
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It would be doubtful it would be enacted on any meaningful level, even if it was 'on the books'.
Looking at the judgments of recent months one can only look with increasing suspicion at the political bias of the judiciary-not least in its blatant flying in the face of public sentiment in relation to certain types of crimes e.g. child-related offenses .
"Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly ...."
- V.Giscard D'Estaing, 14 June 2007
I'd be in favour of bringing back life sentences for murder though.
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I believe a life sentence should mean just that. Death is often too good for some people.
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