I think that capital punishment is in the same box as homeopathy.
Anyone in favour of capital punishment should be willing to make the decision to kill in cold blood, carry out the cold-blooded killing, take care of the cadaver, deal with the family and take care of any miscarriages of justice which result in a wrongful execution.

Peddlers of homeopathy should have to take only homeopathic medicine for every illness they get, no matter how serious. Got cancer? Oh dear, have these sugar pills and drink some of this water. That'll sort you right out.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:21, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

This is a great one that so far has attracted an enourmous* amout of signatures
Because they continue to demonstrate that they are completely out of touch with the population in their sentencing of criminals we want you to introduce legislation to remove judges from the criminal justice system once any person has been found guilty of an offence. At that point of a trial the usefulness of the judge (in maintaining the legality of proceedings) is redundant. Sentencing needs to be more in keeping with the opinion of the public opinions of this country so panels of 'sentencers' consisting of randomly selected taxpaying individuals need to be established round the country so that sentencing is appropriate to the part of the country the crime is committed. Judges demonstrate most admirably that it is not possible for them to see that as far as the public is concerned 'the punishment MUST fit the crime'.

*1 signature
(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)

dear god
can you imagine?

fucking morons
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:26, Reply)

I can.
Why is it that the stupider the person, the cleverer they think they are?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)

That's not always the case, for example, I'm very clever.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:28, Reply)

I did not state that the inverse is true, just that thickos seem to think they are best placed to decide how the country and its institutions should be run.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)

LOL!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:45, Reply)

I like the regional variation idea though
West country would be burning "Witches" by the end of the week.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:28, Reply)

we do that anyway
we're just really good at covering it up

you know all those people who get washed out to sea?

they were all witches.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:28, Reply)

I thought they were meant to float?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:30, Reply)

we burn them
we just tell everyone they get washed out to sea.

but even if they float, they can still die from exposure

also: ginsters pasties. that's not beef
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:31, Reply)

Excellent
The "let's take impartiality out of the sentencing of criminals and put it into the hands of the baying crowd of proles the Sun's whipped into a bloody-frenzy because it's fairer" petition.

Lovely.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)

yup vengeance over justice
it's what the world needs
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:29, Reply)

panels of 'sentencers' consisting of randomly selected taxpaying individuals need to be established round the country
Excellent idea, they could call it a jury
( Peej, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:29, Reply)

So, in short
"We, the undersigned, would like mob rule in place of the current legal system."

It's not a good idea. It wasn't even a particularly good song.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:19, Reply)