The Execution of Gary Glitter - online debate
- Mon, 9 Nov 2009
- Comments (24)
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 14 18:02
michael compton
great TV drama, well acted.
enjoyable, disturbing also.
November 17 07:41
Pit
Reading these comments it seems your country is becoming more and more like America every day. Welcome to the fold, my brothers. With any luck you'll be executing the mentally handicapped by 2020.
November 19 11:13
Gary Gemmell
We need a deterrent - the crimes in this country just get worse week by week. Criminals are not scared off committing crime as prisons are plush pads with playstations, internet access, plasma tvs and gyms. Time we brought back the victorian prisons and make them a place to fear going to and public hanging to shock the populace and shame the families of perverts and murderers then maybe they would think twice. Besides there is also the argument that it will save money which should please the politicians who have wasted so much of it on illegal immigrants sucking the nhs and dhss dry for the last 50 years.
November 20 02:32
R2$
In reference to the above named - I don't think he should be hung by the neck until dead... as another appendage seems far more appropriate... In my opinion [for what it's worth] these people, are incurable recidivist miscreants... they consider their actions to be 'natural' 'loving' 'caring' - many associative people within the 'Glam' fold must surely have been aware of the said individuals distorted relationships with young people and children... I am as ever, appalled and disgusted by such activities... there are, as one is led to believe, specific isolation wards in special hospitals where individuals with libidos bent on impregnating anything that moves are kept... maybe in the case of repeat offender paedophiles - this is where they should be sent for permanent residence, as it may help them to understand what it is like to be on the recieving end of their own brand of a distorted and control led excuses for a relationship ...