The Execution of Gary Glitter - online debate
- Mon, 9 Nov 2009
- Comments (29)
Channel 4 will host an online debate about the death penalty after it screens The Execution of Gary Glitter on Monday night at 2100GMT.
The programme will examine issues surrounding the death penalty and contains a fictionalised account of what might have happened to the former pop star and convicted sex offender Paul Gadd, better known as Gary Glitter, if the death penalty was reintroduced in the UK.
The online debate will be chaired by Samir Shah, the executive producer of the programme.
Channel 4 recently commissioned a poll that found 70 per cent of UK citizens believe that the death penalty should be reinstated.
According to the Daily Mirror, Gadd is considering taking legal action against Channel 4.
Gadd was convicted of committing obscene acts with a minor in Vietnam in 2006, though a charge of child rape was dropped. He was also jailed in the UK in 1999 for possession of images of child abuse.
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November 24 16:05
Robert Chartrand
Yep, next step will be stoning women who kill their feotuses and maybe some wipping for those single mothers who maintain psychologically incestuous relationships with their sons.
November 25 10:47
Alan Lea
What Glitter did was an abomination. Children have to be protected from people like him, and if that means putting paedophiles to death then so be it.
December 04 14:13
chris
while this debate regards the death penalty, it seems as tho previous respondents are stuck on the pedophilia aspect of the documentary. well, lets get that out of the way. ancient rome, pedophiles. victorian england, and not so long ago in the u.s, we were marrying off young girls in polite society. while i wanst there to witness, i can imagine that not all the girls went willingly to their marriage bed. some might argue that a lesser life span dictated the morals of the society, and i would agree if they were being married off to similar aged boys, but that was not the case. im not an advocate of pedophilia by any means, just offering a reason why i cant support a death penalty for pedo's. it is a shifting moral landscape which made it [rightly so] such a heinous crime, but my morals will not allow a death, nor allow me to believe that if i was a member of a jury that i would be comfortable even discussing it. treatment, mental hospital, even general population of a normal prison so the sodomy they gave out can be revisited on them is all good to me. but death? humans are fallible by definition, or we would be called gods, and fallible people have no rights to use death as a punishment. that being said, if you have a criminal on tape and beyond not just reasonable doubt, but beyond any doubts at all, guilt can be placed on a person who kills, then my moral stance enters a grey area where i would hope death was on the table but would be concerned i was asking for vengeance and not justice. a tough question indeed in an advanced society. i do not envy the people who are discussing this for real
December 28 12:35
Jacob
All joking aside the death penatly is wrong, while being a peado is wrong it is not as bad as say murder or mutation of ones body. I think that the important thing is that both the peado's and the victim's rights are considered and that the focus is on life after one's trial not before hand.