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The Execution of Gary Glitter
I'm watching the Exectuion of Gary Glitter, and as usually, C4 have done us proud with gripping drama.
As someone who only often truly understands and feels things once I have experienced them, this is really getting to me. It's not an "execution" it's an "institutionalised murder", and what it really shows up is how lenient our penal system is. I'm not calling for the Death Penalty by any means, but Life should mean Life, not bail in 6 years.
There are news reports, interviews, and coverage of protests. Even a short word from the coldly named, "Hanging Technician", who reveals he'll have to remain psychologically detached when he pulls the lever.
Gary Glitter is unremorseful and arrogant in this, but the wobble in his lip when the sentence was announced is heartening, and really reached out to me.
It's a war of words and of media, in a country where the politicians decide.
People have complained about this -- indeed Gary Glitter himself is planning to sue (which I think he's right to) -- but I'm interested whether this will make people actually want the death penalty or not. It seems doubtful, as the programme raises some brilliant questions that would be seized upon by an interested RE group or Philosophy class, most with an answer that most of you could tell me straightoff.
Well done C4, it's shock tactics again, but, I applaud you.
As someone who only often truly understands and feels things once I have experienced them, this is really getting to me. It's not an "execution" it's an "institutionalised murder", and what it really shows up is how lenient our penal system is. I'm not calling for the Death Penalty by any means, but Life should mean Life, not bail in 6 years.
There are news reports, interviews, and coverage of protests. Even a short word from the coldly named, "Hanging Technician", who reveals he'll have to remain psychologically detached when he pulls the lever.
Gary Glitter is unremorseful and arrogant in this, but the wobble in his lip when the sentence was announced is heartening, and really reached out to me.
It's a war of words and of media, in a country where the politicians decide.
People have complained about this -- indeed Gary Glitter himself is planning to sue (which I think he's right to) -- but I'm interested whether this will make people actually want the death penalty or not. It seems doubtful, as the programme raises some brilliant questions that would be seized upon by an interested RE group or Philosophy class, most with an answer that most of you could tell me straightoff.
Well done C4, it's shock tactics again, but, I applaud you.
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I completely agree. If we could ever KNOW that that crime was exactly this way and it was committed by that person and they were likely to commit something like it again without repetence, then I believe it would be worth considering a permanent incarceration, if you like. And the most certain way of doing that would be putting them to death. Of course, if we could be sure that the punishment system we already have could keep in them inside permanently, then that too would be an option. But we can't know that right now.
Isn't that so odd. Same consequence, different meaning, different reason. It's that whole, "one death is a tragedy, a hundred deaths is an accident." or something to that effect.
surprisingly complex? it's about death, and rights. I don't know how anyone can underestimate its complexity :S