On the particular moment of Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:01:29 -0000 in relation
to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, "Andy Pandy"
put forth:
>
>"Doesn't Frequently Mop"
>wrote in message news:qkkgl35iac4hapj134mjov82rabn9qc61g@4ax.com...
>> >> Uh... what? It was the will of the people in Britain that got rid
>of
>> >> hanging and slavery!
>> >
>> >Complete bollox - the majority of the people (in the UK at least)
>are
>> >and always have been in favour of hanging.
>>
>> PMSL!
>
>You really are that clueless, aren't you? Opinion is a bit more
>divided now than it used to be, but at the time of abolition, and
>right up till today, more people support the death penalty than oppose
>it.
See below.
>> Cite puh-leez!
>
>http://www.gallup.com/poll/11005/Support-Death-Penalty-US-Britain-Canada.aspx
>
>"In Great Britain, a slim majority supports the death penalty, with
>55% in favor and 41% opposed"
>
>http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=2165#ip04
>
>"In 1995, when the issue of reinstating the death penalty was debated
>and subsequently defeated in Parliament, 76% of British respondents
>supported the death penalty. A poll taken after the highly-publicized
>child murders found only 56% support for capital punishment. (The
>Guardian, August 21, 2002)."
>
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/03/ndeath03.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/03/ixnewstop.html
>
>"However, the survey suggests that while more people continue to
>favour capital punishment than oppose it, support is much lower than
>the levels seen in the past, despite a remorseless rise in the number
>of murders.
>In 1960, a Gallup poll found that more than two thirds of people, 70
>per cent, believed that murderers of police officers should hang. The
>corresponding figure in the new YouGov survey is 49 per cent. The
>balance of opinion remains in favour of the death penalty in such
>cases but it is far smaller than it used to be."
>
>That do you?
No. There is nothing there (post 1960) related to hanging.
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