I'm with you Meerkat. There are plenty of people who oppose the death penanlty for a variety of reasons, but surely if ever there was a perfect example it's the murdering of children. I agree that there should be some sort of appeal, but if he's still found guilty after that then it's bye bye time!!!
Weren't those parents restrained??? I could not have sat in the same courtroom as him without laying into him. It would be worth the contempt fine just to lay one on him.

Remember standing on the Holmesdale in the pouring rain, watching Deano hit a blinder in the last minute????

Let the family of the victim decide the penalty.

Remember standing on the Holmesdale in the pouring rain, watching Deano hit a blinder in the last minute????

I'm with you on this one Bexter, you're only dragging yourself down to the level of the killer by executing them. And only one miscarriage of justice makes the whole idea collapse.

The mother of Sarah Payne has said of executing Roy Whiting: "Nobody has the right to take another person's life. I believe that child killers should get life imprisonment and never be allowed to walk the streets. Killing Whiting would not take the pain away. In fact killing someone like that would turn my stomach." Leaving someone to rot in prison is often a better idea than executing them. Death for some of these people is the easy way out: think of Fred West, who never stood trial for his crimes. Huntley also tried to top himself earlier this year. He's 29 now and might well have to spend 50 years in solitary confinement mulling over what he's done. That to me is a worse punishment than execution.

Goodness is what you do. Not who you pray to.

you can't kill people just to save money!
if they ever reintroduced it i'd be thoroughly disguisted. yuk. and how would you favour killing them? rope round neck? lethal injection which can take many attempts? or fry 'em up good and proper til their eyes pop out?! i feel sick

Can we kill off the royals then? It'd be a much better way of saving taxpayers money

Seriously though, people like Huntley deserve a harder punishment than just being locked up for the rest of his life and if the families of Holly and Jessica wanted him dead then fair enough in my opinion, but as Bexter has said, there's plenty of cases where 'guilty' people aren't guilty.

It was my dream to play for Palace and to make my debut. I've always played for the club so if I'm playing here, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

- John Bostock (Nov 2007)

The way I feel about Huntley I'd probably go for a wrecking ball.