Christmas Podcast | Should We Bring Back the Death Penalty
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, folks, welcome to this X-MOS podcast, where Nate and I are going to be talking about the most cheery of festive subjects, hanging people. |
| 0:19.6 | And the question that has been raised |
| 0:21.3 | recently although for you are probably about two months ago now in Parliament |
| 0:26.2 | was Rupertelo he brought it up and we'll talk about that in a minute so do we |
| 0:30.5 | want to bring back the death penalty now I'm sure you do yeah and I do as well |
| 0:35.7 | yeah we're gonna make the arguments and we're gonna go make the arguments and we're going to go through the council arguments. |
| 0:39.4 | We're going to go through the statistics on the death penalty. Because I've actually, I've done a surprising, a strange amount of work on this. Are you okay? No, no. I know people get down at the Christmas period. No, no, no. Are you all right? I will be when we start hanging some criminals |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah |
| 0:56.4 | Like it's been a |
| 0:58.1 | It's been a down at the Christmas period. No, no, no. I will be when we start hanging some criminals. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, like it's been a particular sort of conard of mine recently. |
| 1:02.0 | I was like, no, there are people who are still walking the earth who should not be walking the earth. |
| 1:07.0 | There are people out there who do such terrible things that there is no redemption for them, and the moral thing to do would actually be to hang them. |
| 1:17.2 | And this is something the British public agree with. |
| 1:19.8 | As you can see, polls, and this is just a poll from January, right? |
| 1:23.9 | But there's constant, constant polls that give the sort of number of 50 to 55% of people agree with bringing back the death penalty. |
| 1:33.5 | And there are loads of different kinds of polls as well, different ways of frame it. |
| 1:37.6 | If you just ask people, should we bring back the death penalty? |
| 1:40.7 | On average, you'll get about a 50% yes rate. |
| 1:43.2 | Just half the British public, like, yeah? |
| 1:45.3 | When you start sort of drilling down into... When you start... For whom? And then they're like, yeah, it goes up, and up, exactly. And up, and up. Should we, should the terrorists get death penalties? Is that yeah? Should people, should people who murder children get the death penalty? and it just like you say |
| 2:00.5 | if you frame the question you do this with any polling |
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