When you hear what has happened in Manchester today, do feel the death penalty should be applied in such extreme cases?

For me absolutely yes.

Fair enough Dally you can be a bit of a nob occasionally but you don't deserve to die

So before anyone has been tried and convicted, you'd be happy to see the re-introduction of the death penalty for "extreme" cases?

Define extreme - and just saying "like what happened in Manchester yesterday" will not suffice. Was what happened yesterday more "extreme" than the Birmingham or Guildford bombings? If not, there are ten people who would have been wrongly executed.

Capital punishment has buggerall to do with justice, it is all about revenge and is certainly not an indication of a civilised society. Just because some people occasionally act in an uncivilised manner is not an excuse for our legal system to follow suit.

Anyone wanting to see a pro-hanging idiot brought to book, could do worse than search youtube for Ian Hislop and Priti Patel on Question Time

What in your view qualifies as extreme? when we think we know for sure who the culprit was? when a life is ended but not that of a joe public citizen? of just when the daily papers of subscription tell you it is?

Timoth Evans was an "extreme" case at 10 Rillington Place. He was hanged. He didn't commit any of the murders, Reg Christie did. He was hanged too for the same murders. Two men, hanged for the same crime which one committed and one did not.

Not true, he was tried for the murder of his wife, although he did admit to killing Timothy Evans wife (but not the child).

Still doesn't detract from the fact an innocent man was hanged.

No, it doesn't. I was just pointing out that your post was factually incorrect.

Its been a while since I read the Ludvic Kennedy book

Yeah, well, why let a few executions of the occasional innocent get in the way of knee-jerk justice?
Lynch 'em, it's the only language they understand.

Front row seats for the Dally's. A picnic hamper on a sunny day. 'Let 'em dangle'.

Can someone tell me why murdering a police officer is a worse crime than murdering anyone else?

And to the original question, no. It's the 21st Century ffs.

Unfortunately, the scum that did this don't care what century it is.

Because the parents of police officers love their children a little bit more? I see the Chingford Skinhead was quick to muster the rallying call! W@nker. He needs to jump on his bike and ride it sharpish to his nearest crematorium.