Blast, I had a feeling it was going to turn out to be complicated. I wasn't so much interested in the minute details as the general picture, though: even if the death penalty for high treason still existed, in effect we have not had capital punishment in the UK since 1964. It's been 45 years, we're completely used to not having it, we find it alien. In contrast, I'm always jolted when I encounter people from countries where it is still practised, who take it for granted that people will approve of capital punishment and think it's only the crazies who disapprove.
Ach, there probably wasn't much point doing a poll, it's a small group and politically probably not representative of the general population. I was just curious.
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Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:15 am (UTC)From:Ach, there probably wasn't much point doing a poll, it's a small group and politically probably not representative of the general population. I was just curious.