It’s a funny story right up to the fourth paragraph of the article, at which point reality rudely intrudes.

Looks like a few of you have got it. 🙂

For the benefit of anyone still scratching their heads, Will Hay was also an accomplished pilot and a flight instructor.

One of his pupils was Amy Johnson.

Quite the Renaissance man, wasn’t he?

Yes, in a way you are right. Can’t speak for others but I meant that he was underrated “publicly” unlike the Becks and Claptons of the fraternity. Publicly I reckon he was remembered for |Thin Lizzy and “Parisian Walkways”, which hardly does justice to his talent.

Good point.

No-one ever seems to mention his jazz-fusion work with Colosseum II, for instance, which was very different from his rock and blues work.

Well GA, I will hazard a guess and shoot for the stars was he perchance an Astronomer?

He was indeed, and a widely-respected one at that.

But there’s something else…..

O.K. GA just to appease you, WILL HAY!!!!! and yes, I do remember him’:D

Ah, but do you know what his other claim to fame was?

I wouldn’t have a concern about that old chestnut.

So, how many innocent lives would you be willing to sacrifice to satisfy your desire for the death penalty?

10 a year? 5 a year? 1?

What if you were that one? Would your own life be a price worth paying?

And the miscarriages of justice you may be referring to? The Polish simpleton? His case would not have resulted in a Death penalty, lawyers and red tape would have stopped that.

What a disgusting way to describe another human being. You should read the link in Mr Creosote’s posting, and then feel ashamed of yourself.

An innocent would not hang or get pilled. They may get jailed, but they would not get hung

An innocent person shouldn’t be found guilty in the first place.

I’m out of this thread now, as I have a feeling that moderator action will be needed sooner rather than later.

However, the whole death penalty (based on average benefits against drawbacks) does get the Strangelove stamp of approval.

And if, one day, one of your family were to be executed for a crime they didn’t commit would the death penalty (based on average benefits against drawbacks) still get the Strangelove stamp of approval?

Because everyone who has ever been executed through a miscarriage of justice had a family, too.

L.O.L. GA, I consider that when they dropped the Atom bomb on Hiroshima, that was a good example of a deterrant:p so I do know what it means.

In all seriousness, you probably couldn’t be more wrong.

What do you think the word means?

D,N,A. over the last decade has made it virtualy impossible for the test results to be wrong.

Impossible, eh?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1322077/False-DNA-test-led-father-to-reject-daughter.html
http://www.experiencedcriminallawyers.com/dna-evidence-in-criminal-cases-can-be-falsified-and-manufactured/
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/fabricating_dna.html