After just two years in Colorado’s dreaded Supermax Prison, hate preacher Abu Hamza was frantically pounding on his cell door to get out, his lawyers decrying its ‘inhuman and degrading conditions’ and insisting he’d return to a British jail ‘in a second’ if he could.
Perhaps his successor in British Islamist extremism, Isis fanatic Alexanda Kotey, had Hamza’s bleak fate in mind — even his famous hooks were removed from the stumps of his arms — when he recently said the ‘worst thing that could happen’ would be to be locked up in a U.S. jail.
Kotey and fellow British jihadi El Shafee Elsheikh face extradition to America after officials there promised they would not be put to death if convicted of barbaric crimes as members of the notorious ‘Beatles’ terror cell which was behind the beheading of two British aid workers and two U.S. journalists.
Actions have consequences. These scumbags joined a terrorist organisation and waged war against us. So, am I supposed to feel sorry for them?
Well, I don’t.
Nobody has ever escaped from Supermax and, more to the point, few are ever heard from again once they pass through its encircling fortress of reinforced concrete walls, its fields of razor wire and gun towers. Inside, inmates begin a new life inside a tiny concrete cell with absolutely minimal human contact.
Good. They relinquished any rights when they decided to engage in murder. They do not deserve human contact. Let them rot.
Bring back the oubliette.
Would be cheap to build a facility with a few. Minimal running cost.
Of course the snowflakes might be unhappy.
But that’s a small price to pay for a decent deterrent.
You don’t need to build oubliettes. There are plenty of deep coal mines in the UK that would serve as excellent secure prisons. They want to live in a world of their own construction? Fine by me. Simply lower them down in the cage, send a cage load of food and necessities down once a week and let them make their own earthly paradise in each others company. Plenty of room for them and no social isolation so no complaints about degrading and inhumane treatment. If miners went down to work and endured those conditions, then they can’t complain that they are being treated worse. They don’t even have to dig coal, just eat and socialise.
If you REALLY wanted to make sure everyone was happy, you could have one for Islamists, one for murderers, one for paedophiles etc.
Just make sure that the pit head winding gear is kept under strict guard with explosives on a dead mans switch arrangement in case of a rescue attempt.
They deserve public execution.
According to those who have experienced it, execution would be getting off lightly.
One of this year’s few feel good stories!
I’d build our own supermax, and I’d site it on South Georgia. Once in, never out and nowhere to run…
No need to go that far – send them to Gruinard and sow the seeds of doubt as to its safety. . . .
Nope, much though emotionally I am in favour of a trapdoor solution to feeding them, I just don’t trust the state / government of the day / police not to stitch people up. (Brazilian electrician levels of incompetence anyone?)
It is that lack of trust the police / govt have caused, that makes me an opponent of the death penalty.
Whether deliberate or through incompetence, there are too many cases of the wrong person being jailed for life.
Also another argument agaist death penalties is it increases the unwillingness of jurors to convict. If the penalty is death, any doubts at all will increase probability of some jurors finding not beyond reasonable doubt, so paradoxically the death penalty could increase the number of murderers walking free.
That’s pretty much my position. I simply do not trust the state with the ultimate sanction. Just ask Edith Thompson. Oh, that’s right, we can’t, she swung for a murder she didn’t commit.
He’s lucky. In many countries around the world, including most of the ones Hamza would have us become like, he would have been beheaded in Parliament Square and his family interned and tortured for the rest of their lives
Supermax = fate worse than death?
Good, hope they live to a ripe old age perhaps finding love in the arms of Buba.