The death penalty has always made me scared, but this really got to me. A guy has been effectively murdered, and he knows he will die, and there is *nothing* he can do. I can see the appeal in a sort of "Own Medicine" kind of way, but it's still too harsh - how does anyone have the right to take a life? It's the clinicalness of it all that gets me; it's literally clinical calculated MURDER.
I hate how life doesn't mean life. It means 12 - 15 years, then bail in half that. It needs to be taken seriously, and only carrying out half your punishment does nothing. One point this show made was that it made that Gary Glitter a bit of a martyr: sales of his songs rocketed, new fans emerged, and he was remembered for being unfairly killed rather than the fact he committed a heinous crime. Entirely the unfavourable outcome.
I knew what he'd done, but I didn't know how he was treating it; that's the thing that's really annoyed (for want of a better word) me.
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It's the clinicalness of it all that gets me; it's literally clinical calculated MURDER.
I hate how life doesn't mean life. It means 12 - 15 years, then bail in half that. It needs to be taken seriously, and only carrying out half your punishment does nothing. One point this show made was that it made that Gary Glitter a bit of a martyr: sales of his songs rocketed, new fans emerged, and he was remembered for being unfairly killed rather than the fact he committed a heinous crime. Entirely the unfavourable outcome.
I knew what he'd done, but I didn't know how he was treating it; that's the thing that's really annoyed (for want of a better word) me.