If I was in his shoes I'd rather this than what he will get if he is ever in public areas in jail. He will either be treated like scum and filth, beaten, maybe stabbed or he will be locked away by himself and spend 35 years alone and going mad. His Hell is far worse than a quick death. And I'm glad.
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Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
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If I was in his shoes I'd rather this than what he will get if he is ever in public areas in jail. He will either be treated like scum and filth, beaten, maybe stabbed or he will be locked away by himself and spend 35 years alone and going mad. His Hell is far worse than a quick death. And I'm glad.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Guys that beat women get a hard time in prison. How do you think the prison population will treat him?
MaschinenZimmer
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He sounds like a crazy soziopath. Sometimes I think we need a 'special' sentence for these kind of people. I mean, he obvisiouly didn't care to behave like a human being, why should we treat him as one?
Yeah! Remember the good old days when we had public hangings guys? When the world was a magical place that had no criminals because they were all dead....
Charmicarmicat
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In Jeffrey Archer's books about being in prison he recounts an incident where he saw inmates throw boiling water in a sex offenders face, and they had added something to the water to make sure it stuck to his face, so yeah it happens.
NervousXtian
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Damn you OP. I hadn't heard about this, and then I read the stories.
Ruined my morning hearing what he did.
What a piece of shit that guy is... wow.
Ruined my morning hearing what he did.
What a piece of shit that guy is... wow.
Opus Angelorum
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Unless he is kept in solitary confinement he won't last long.
Let's see if he thinks it's 'megalolz' when he gets raped over and over and beaten to within an inch of his life. Piece of shit.
Let's see if he thinks it's 'megalolz' when he gets raped over and over and beaten to within an inch of his life. Piece of shit.
I never understood that shit. If you want the death penalty, whatever. But actually wanting to watch someone die? I wouldn't even watch that in a video, and at that point I would seriously be concerned for my own mental health.
Just because the US prison system is thoroughly fucked up and that is accepted as a reasonable part of punishment, that isn't necessarily the case in the rest of the world.
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I'm glad the women involved also got lengthy jail sentences. Hopefully they will have their reproductive organs removed whilst inside. Scum.
Opus Angelorum
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From memory quite a few child killers/rapists in UK jails have been attacked, I'll try and find a few.
Why do so many people in this thread and similar threads on GAF think it's perfectly fine that public prisons are a free-for-all? Where if you commited a terrible crime and actually got a sentence set by a court, you are also expected to suffer additionally on account of the other inmates? I'd get it if the responses were simply stating the fact that it will inevitably happen, but I see so many "I hope he gets beat to death" and "Good, he won't last long" and similar. Really sad to see.
And don't even start to suggest that I'm defending him. He received a sentence by a court of law, isn't that enough?
Pretty much this. The "eye for an eye-mentality" is really disgusting.
And don't even start to suggest that I'm defending him. He received a sentence by a court of law, isn't that enough?
Pretty much this. The "eye for an eye-mentality" is really disgusting.
Justice is done. At least he can't hurt anyone else ever again.
Sugar, usually. Thoroughly unpleasant.
Sugar, usually. Thoroughly unpleasant.
I'm against prison violence. Really, I am, it is unjust and doesn't solve anything. I won't feel bad for him when it happens, though.
Well, he is 36 and fully mature. Unlike his victim. So no eye for an eye here.
I don't know what you're saying here. That is not what eye for an eye means. What I'm saying is, the fact that he raped someone and people suggesting that it's great that he will get raped himself, is digusting.
fierrotlepou
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What the hell? I had to take a look if I wasn't on some kind of "joke" website for a second.
I can't even.
Why?
Why is that disturbing? Declaring someone to be a "massive baby raper" based on their appearance alone is a pretty terrible thing to do to them.
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You're right. It would be better just to put a bullet in his head and be done.
Jezbollah
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This. And I doubt it that he'll make it to 2015.
Jimmyfenix
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As history goes in the late 50`s people would use big clock towers to hang people in the UK. The UK glorifies criminals with TV`s and PS3's. There is a child killer who is already asking for parole. The UK's justice system is a joke.
ComputerMKII
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And not a single fuck was given about this guy's future well-being.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Where exactly in my post does it say that I am wishing this upon him?
It's going to happen whether we wish it or not.
Even if he is kept in solitary, the other inmates know who he is and what he did. Anonymity is often the only defence that paedophiles have in prison. Once word gets out, they're fucked.
titusandronicus
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Insane to suggest that an appropriate response to a disgusting crime is for the state to murder the criminal, and for people to get some entertainment out of it by it being public. Don't get the blood lust for child molesters at all.
Are you suggesting the way TV and PS3 (really?) "glorifies" criminals is somehow influencing the way courts decide on sentences?
Jimmyfenix
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If a BBC presenter only received 15 months for sex attacks on young girls then yes the UK legal system is a joke.
titusandronicus
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You do realise that in the countries where capital punishment is practiced, their justice systems are a joke? The UK's may not be great, but it is a hell of a lot better than the one in Iran or Saudi Arabia. We don't murder teenagers for being gay here.
fierrotlepou
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Why keep him alive? He admitted the (disgusting) crimes. There's no doubt about the fact that it's him that commited these horrible acts.
I understand that the death sentence gets some hate because innocent people might get executed - and because of other reasons.
But in this case: why not hang him high?
Count Dookkake
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His fate will be megalolz.
Vermillion
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You don't get it or you don't condone it? There is a difference. I understand the violent responses perfectly. To stick to my line... use him for psychological experiments and rehabilitate him. If these things are not possible, execute him.
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Even if he did horrible things, nobody nor any country should step down to his level and hang him. Let him rot in prison, he'll have all the megalolz in the world there.
BronsonLee
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I'll leave the discussion of his fate to better people than me, but who on earth says that in an actual conversation, much less one of this magnitude?
So stupid
I didn't ask about the UK legal system being a joke, because I don't really know anything about that. You didn't answer my question.
This seems like an incredibly slipperly slope. Who decides if "it's not possible"? What will be the criteria?
titusandronicus
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If you really wanted him to suffer for his acts, surely death is the easy way out and 'rotting' in prison would be more satisfactory?
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
NekoFever
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Let's punish his horrible acts by committing a horrible act.
How can a society be truly civilised when those in higher power have the ability to choose whether a person lives or dies?
It is not fair to the judges who would have to decide.
It is not fair to the family of the criminal.
It is especially unfair to those wrongly sentenced.
A better society cannot be based upon something so barbaric, we as people should not get any satisfaction out of killing another.
OriginalThinking
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No. I don't mean to get off topic (and Watkins is seriously sick individual) but there's a reason we should never go back to capital punishment. Miscarriages of justice, framing etc etc, mob behaviour.
CharmingCharlie
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Stuart Halls sentence was increased from 15 months too 3 years. On top of that the police are investigating further allegations against him which if proven will see him receive further jail sentences.
CyclopsRock
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What's the difference between these two things?
CyclopsRock
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FYI I really don't think anyone can take the moral high ground on capital punishment whilst simultaneously saying that it's better for people to get raped in prison.
Anything - at all - that happens to a prisoner should be the express will of the judiciary; "justice", whether you agree with the specific instances or not, should not be up to a vigilante group of criminals. If you really think rapists and child molesters should be raped in prison, it should be the state doing it. Not that I do, obviously.
Anything - at all - that happens to a prisoner should be the express will of the judiciary; "justice", whether you agree with the specific instances or not, should not be up to a vigilante group of criminals. If you really think rapists and child molesters should be raped in prison, it should be the state doing it. Not that I do, obviously.
I think the entire opposition to capital punishment is flawed anyways. We give power to average, ignorant citizens to decide the fates of people in courts. Judges have the ability to sentence people to dozens of years in a prison. Its all an imperfect system that relies on handing power over people's lives to others.
In extreme cases, ones where there is absolutely no doubt about guilt whatsoever, I don't see the problem with capital punishment. I certainly don't think this case here is one that would warrant that, but in general, I don't get why people are so against it.
You think the opposition is flawed, but the only arguments you present for your case is that you "don't see anything wrong with it". A bit weak if you ask me.
OriginalThinking
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You can never be 100% sure of a conviction. There are only probabilities. Pictures can be faked, video can be faked, documents can be faked, conversations can be edited, investigations can be flawed and biased. That's before you even get to human error. At best you can be 99.99% sure you've made the right decision. Capital punishment excludes the possibility of a retrial if that 1 in a 1000 conviction turns out to be flawed. To be honest the time he spends in prison will likely be far more painful than a humane death.
Skellig Gra
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So murderers and rapists in other countries are much more polite? Give me a break.
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