Depends what is written in to it really.

If you come to the UK to escape torture and are lawfully granted asylum, allegations against you that will lead to your execution should be accepted at face value without any need for you to be charged, put on trial or have the chance to put the case against your execution.

Treason being the only crime you can still be executed for in this country.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Except that it's not. There are no offences for which the death penalty exists in this country.

Absolutely.

How about, rule 1 - if you arrive in the UK with a forged passport, then claim asylum, and then after the UK is kind enough to offer you and your family safe haven, plus a free house, hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits, you spend every available opportunity encouraging Muslims to embrace jihad and kill innocent civilians - you are immediately executed by firing squad.

Firstly, if you come to the UK on a forged passport, you should be immediately deported to your country of origin.

Any asylum claim should be dismissed following the the crime committed above.

After this date simple hanging was felt to be sufficient. This punishment for treason was only replaced in 1998 for life imprisonment.

I stand corrected, I thought it was still a possibility.

Still, we are broke, so we can't really afford to house another prisoner for a life sentence, so a single bullet will suffice.

I can't believe I'm even bothering with this, but my cat is busy with more sophisticated arguments...

If you were wishing to escape from country A and hoping to claim asylum in country B (or C or D or ...), there is a reasonable chance that the Country A authorities might - far from issuing you with a valid passport and a cheery wave - beat you with rubber hoses and, you know, kill you. In order to avoid torture and death you might be tempted to seek another source of documentation, otherwise known as a forgery.

Blah blah blah

There will be some people taking advantage of our hospitality, of course, but i see no reason why this should mean we slam the door.

There will be some people taking advantage of our hospitality, of course, but i see no reason why this should mean we slam the door.

A wanted terrorist found guilty based on evidence gained under torture.

So I have to ask, given that the man in question is a wanted terrorist, who freely encouraged others to attack and kill British civilians, if this is not enough reason in your eyes to 'slam the door', what exactly does a man or woman have to do, to not be given the golden ticket of UK residency?

In all seriousness, why has he not stood trial in the UK? If we all have all these facts, why is he not serving life at HM's pleasure?

Even as late as 1997, he was not considered to be fully part of the wider movement of international violent jihad, which al-Qaeda was coming to spearhead.

But the authorities believe his views were hardening, particularly after a sermon targeting Jews. And by 2001, the cleric had issued rulings justifying suicide attacks, as seen in a BBC Panorama interview the same year.

A Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon described Qatada as the "spiritual head of the mujahedin in Britain" - so the question for the British authorities was whether Qatada now supported "martyrdom operations" against Western targets.

The Security Service and police eventually concluded that Abu Qatada was a threat. In a court statement they said he was providing advice which gave religious legitimacy to those "who wish to further the aims of extreme Islamism and to engage in terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings".

The authorities said that a number of people arrested in connection with terrorism had described Qatada's influence. Richard Reid, the would-be mid-Atlantic shoe bomber, and Zacarias Moussaoui, both jailed for involvement in terrorism, are said to have sought religious advice from him. The cleric's sermons were found in a Hamburg flat used by some of those involved in 9/11.

When Qatada was questioned in 2001 over his alleged connections to a German cell, police found £170,000 cash in his home, including £805 in an envelope labelled "For the mujahideen in Chechnya". No charges were brought.

But on the eve of a new law to hold foreign terrorism suspects without charge or trial, he disappeared. He was later tracked down to a council house in south London and taken to Belmarsh Prison.

The Law Lords eventually ruled such detention illegal and Qatada was among those subjected to a control order, a form of house-arrest.

He was then rearrested and told he would be deported to Jordan, where he had been convicted in his absence of alleged involvement in a plot to target Americans and Israeli tourists during the country's millennium celebrations.

Correct. Until 1814 treason was punishable by hanging, but before death the bowels were removed and burnt in front of the miscreant, then beheading then quartering. Ouch .

After this date simple hanging was felt to be sufficient.

...I'd say the evidence is laid out for all to see, and its time to say goodbye to Mr Qatada.