Should Pirates be hanged

[USFREEDOM911]

Should the laws be changed, to allow captured pirates to be hanged on the spot.

 

[WinterBorn]

Captured? Why would we capture them?

 

[apple0154]

Should the laws be changed, to allow captured pirates to be hanged on the spot.

Here are a few alternatives.
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/punish.html#khaul

 

[SmarterthanYou]

my votes for keelhauling also.

 

[Schadenfreude]

but only after a fair trial - first the trial and then the hanging

 

[Good Luck]

Nope. They should be given a deep, freely bleeding wound on each limb and dropped over the side 100 miles off shore.

 

[Lowaicue]

Nope. They should be given a deep, freely bleeding wound on each limb and dropped over the side 100 miles off shore.

Hanged from the yardarm and then, because we are all civilised, given the benefit of a fair trial.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

No. I don't believe in the death penalty, regardless of the crimes.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

No. I don't believe in the death penalty, regardless of the crimes.

So this latest group, that shot those 4 people, should just be allowed to live out their lives, at our expense.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

So this latest group, that shot those 4 people, should just be allowed to live out their lives, at our expense.

Yup, the government doesn't have the right to decide who is and isn't worthy of living.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

By the way, the proper way to ask your question is "should pirates be hung?"

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Yup, the government doesn't have the right to decide who is and isn't worthy of living.

First off I was more refering to Maritime Law; ie: the Captain of the ship that captures them, hangs them.

Second: What gave the pirates the right to murder the four people?

 

[USFREEDOM911]

By the way, the proper way to ask your question is "should pirates be hung?"

And??

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

First off I was more refering to Maritime Law; ie: the Captain of the ship that captures them, hangs them.

Second: What gave the pirates the right to murder the four people?

Firstly, those captains fly colors representing nations. Secondly, saying they have the 'right' implies that they should not be punished. I said they shouldn't be sentenced to death by an entity representing the government. I never said they shouldn't be punished.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

And??

.....and I corrected your poor grammar.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Firstly, those captains fly colors representing nations. Secondly, saying they have the 'right' implies that they should not be punished. I said they shouldn't be sentenced to death by an entity representing the government. I never said they shouldn't be punished.

Why not hang them?
It would tend to make some of them reconsider their occupation choice.
It worked in the past, when the pirates became to bold and brazen.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

Yup, the government doesn't have the right to decide who is and isn't worthy of living.

weren't you in the military?

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

weren't you in the military?

Yes, and the comparison is invalid.

 

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USF....should we do this to pirates:

In the cases of more famous prisoners, usually captains their punishments extended beyond death. Their bodies were enclosed in iron cages (for which they were measured before their execution) and left to swing in the air until the flesh rotted off them- a process that could take as long as two years. The bodies of captains such as William Kidd, Charles Vane, William Fly, and Jack Rackham were all treated this way.[41]

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[Cancel 2018. 3]

Yes, and the comparison is invalid.

but the government is in fact deciding who lives and dies, vis a vis your orders...