'jonas', on 15 Aug 2012 - 6:11 PM, said:
Congratulations on your discovery of Wikipedia.
What bearing does where or when I source information from have any bearing on the point in question - f*** all that's how much of a bearing. I got into trouble at school once when I correctly answered a "difficult" question and the teacher said that someone told me the answer. When I responded that that was completely obvious and was she stupid or something, she took offence. My first post to this thread, feels like weeks ago now, was about my feelings on the question raised by Daryl and how my thoughts on murder and punishment had changed over the years with direct reference to probably th emost notorious child killers this country has ever seen. Perhaps that post may have indicated to you that this is a topic I have studied and committed significant time to?
'jonas', on 15 Aug 2012 - 6:11 PM, said:
My fault with your statement is that you seem to think that it's at all relevant that two were hanged simultaneously,
It is completely relevant when you consider the definition of the word LAST and the fact that that is the adjective you used in your post.
'jonas', on 15 Aug 2012 - 6:11 PM, said:
seeing as my whole point is that one was innocent of the crime he was being hanged for.
Your whole point was that the LAST person hanged was completely innocent. I pointed out that as the 2 were hanged simultaneously we cannot possibly know whether that is correct.
'jonas', on 15 Aug 2012 - 6:11 PM, said:
Whether or not another man was being hanged at the same time is completely besides the point.
It is completely the point when you illustrated your post by using the word LAST and you cannot possibly know whether he was or was not the LAST. How many more times for the slow one at the back to take in that simple fact.
'jonas', on 15 Aug 2012 - 6:11 PM, said:
The death penalty will never be brought back, because of how difficult it can be in some cases to 100% prove a person's guilt, now matter how much we (the public) are convinced by his guilt from some preliminary news reports.
There is a legal reason why the death penalty will never be brought back and it because whilst we as a country remain signed up to the ECHR the death penalty would be a direct contravention of EU law and you can thank Tony and Cherie Blair for that one.
bj