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You say there can never be 100% certainty in such a case. About what? Do you think all that preparation and posts on social media might have just been a sick joke, and not intended?

 

Do you think that terrorists should be given more lenience if they are caught before they carry out their planned atrocities? I think you are nit-picking, or being devil’s advocate in this example. Conspiracy and planning a terrorist attack is treason and extremely serious and in my opinion deserves the same sentence as if they had carried out their threats. If we had capital punishment for Daesh terrorists I don’t feel that being caught in the planning stage should allow them any more favourable treatment.

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Do I think that all the 'preparations' this pair carried out was joke, sick or otherwise - no I don't.

Do I think there is a possibility, no matter how tiny, that it was - yes I do.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, the guilt of some is beyond doubt - the murder of Lee Rigby being a case in point where there were numerous eye witnesses as well as photographic evidence - although these are very few and far between - off the top of my head I'm struggling to think of another.

Interesting that you should mention John Christie amongst the list of murderers who you consider were 'guilty beyond doubt' as Timothy Evans was wrongly hanged for the murder of two of his victims.  Therein lies the problem - capital punishment as a penalty for crime is one that can never be rescinded if it is found that the court has made an error.