So the yorkshire ripper wants to be freed from prison and is asking for his tarriff to be finalised i personally think he should have swung years ago for the crimes he committed…what do you guys think?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Yorkshire-Ripper-Woman-Who-Survived-An-Attack-By-Peter-Sutcliffe-Says-He-Should-Never-Be-Let-Out/Article/201003115563357?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_7&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15563357_Yorkshire_Ripper%3A_Woman_Who_Survived_An_Attack_By_Peter_Sutcliffe_Says_He_Should_Never_Be_Let_Out
Where’s the link to the news of this Wasp?
(Bet there are loads of people on here too young to remember what this is about)
Cheers for the reminder…made me realise how old i am:w00t: i still remember it like yesterday more so cos a member of my mates family was attacked by the sick B***D **
Never, and i would of had his nuts cut off with a blunt knife.
yes he should of hung him save us tax payers momey
like lots of others:angry:
At the time he was arrested I was fairly sure he was guilty of some of the crimes but not all…I still feel the same way…Something about the way he (the ripper) ran rings around some of the best coppers in the UK then was caught by a couple of rookies didn’t tie up…He should stay in though…cost a fortune to give him a new ID etc etc
I went to Leeds University in the early 90’s still being talked about then!
Murder = life = life in prison with no parole you rot and die there.
I have heard about this case but obviously wasn’t around at the time (only just 
) What is his real name?? Peter Suttcliff or Peter Coonan??
If he did indeed murder the amount of people he has supposed to have and attacked countless others then he should stay in prison for the rest of his life. He is only 63 at the mo and if he came out he could potentially have up to 30 years of freedom, how is that fair to his victims and their families??
He’s not even in prison - he’s in Broadmoor, so conditions are much better for him.
I’d have like dto see him dangling at the end of a rope, TBH.He’s cost us hundreds of thousands of pounds that would have been better spent elsewhere.
As much as this man is an inhuman torturing murderous insane thug, I would never support state sanctioned murder. And it doesn’t work, in the US it actually cost more to execute someone than to jail them for life (and I do mean life they have a sentence of 394 years) and china has the highest number of state executions. Neither country seem to have a dropping of the rate of murder. Execution is not a deterrent nor is it a solution. What happens when you execute the wrong man, opps sorry does bring that person back.
However BOT Sutcliffe should never ever be released.
he should have swung on a rope for what he did…alongside Brady, and I would gladly tie the knot round his neck
I have no illusions about the death penalty being a deterrent, but it is a punishment that should be resurrected.With the advent of dna evidence (alongside other evidence), it should make a mistake so much harder (no dna evidence, no death penalty)
The reason that executing a condemned prisoner in the US costs so much must be down to their ridiculous legal system and the costs of the lawyers.If someone is sentenced to death, there shouldn’t be the opportunity for constant appeals and stays which mean that the offender ends up on death row for what can be many years.
Obviously the British legal system allows for an appeal against a verdict, but that should only be allowed once, and if the appeal is refused then sentencing should be carried out within 30 days (or some other nominal, but short, period of time)
DNA or not they still make mistakes as happened recently where sloppy police work led to DNA contamination.
I am sure the family of the persons exonerated in the US after being executed would feel the same.
Plus DNA is not as reliable as finger print evidence. E.g. my mum and my aunt are identical twins. Their DNA is identical, their prints aren’t.
State sanctioned executions can never guarantee that the person is 100% guilty.
**And i supose it makes no odds that he confessed either cos i remember that chap a couple of years ago who confessed to a murder then 20 years down the line they found that todays dna technology proved he was innocent!! kinda get the impression he was trying to hide from someone lol:w00t:
So how long is a mandotory life sentence?**
There’s no constitutional right to legal representation for appeals in the US & pretty much all appeals against the death penalty are handled by lawyers working voluntarily assisted by legal students, so no cost to the state for lawyers fees beyond that of their own employees in the District Attorneys office, on top of that the Supreme court only actually considers 1 in 30 death penalty appeals laid before it. In fact the reason a lot of innocent people end up on death row is because of the overworked &/or useless state provided legal representation they get in the initial trial, it would make more sense economically to spend more money providing them with a decent level of legal support in the first place than lock them up unfairly for 10-20 years whilst they try to prove their innocence.
As for only allowing one appeal, that would have meant the Birmingham 6, Guildford 4, Cardiff 3 would all have been executed even though all of them were proven to have been totally innocent in later appeals, they’re just the headline travesty of justice cases that immediately spring to mind, how many more lower profile ones have there been?
Another problem with the death penalty is that with the knowledge that their decision will result in someone going to their death, juries are significantly less likely to convict, so far from making society safer you actually end up with more killers being acquitted & therefore being released onto the streets to potentially kill again.
Well it should be life, however the European Court of Human Rights has decided that it is cruel & usual punishment and therefore illegal.
Hmmmm, wonder what the dead would say?
Err no, quite the opposite, they held that a whole life sentence wasn’t in contravention of the convention on human rights.
What they did declare unlawful however was the right of a politician ie. the Home Secretary to set or change a minimum sentence to be served before being able to apply for parole, that has to be done by a judge.
Ok so explain why they gave the ripper 20 life sentences!! whats the point in that?:w00t:
as soon as he was caught they should’ve given him to the families of the victims to do whatever they want to him , but on the other hand 29 years is a long time i do believe some could change there ways because he has had 29 years to see the error of his ways , he was a raper im sure he was raped numorous times over the last 29 years …i think it would destroy the people he hurt if he were released for that reason he should stay locked up at least until they forgive him anyway