Death penalty in the UK, yes or no???

[videojetman]

Definitely Yes, no place in this world for clearly guilty child rapists.

 

[ian.allen2]

Yes. An eye for an eye. With DNA technology and everything including confessions, there should be the death penalty. If something can be proven 100%, then the guilty should suffer what they deserve.
It would make room in prisons for mp's who extort expenses.

 

[Alison]

Personally I don't really want to read all the yes comments, as if you put to death ONE innocent person, no matter how much a really guilty person deserves it in your eyes, the whole system fails and even with all the science we have to detect crime and perpetrators of crime there will ALWAYS be mistaken prosecutions and eventual executions. But in the end if killing is so wrong, which I think it is, you cannot justify killing with killing.

Alison

 

[velomaniac]

No to death penalty but prison should be for punishment of such serious offences not wasted rehabilitation. Find myself shouting at TV when prisons are considered to tread on prisoners human rights and now the EU says we should give them the right to vote. Bad crime should be answered with tough punishment but death justifys killing and as Alison says above, you cant justify killing with killing.

 

[Mike Muz]

Yes ,
There will always be people who will be guilty without any doubt whatsoever . That can be the only time when I think it's appropriate . Without paying the ultimate price , surely there is no deterrent to commit the worst possible crime of murdering someone in the first place .

 

[Pyro Tim]

they have death penalty in US, yet their murder rate is higher than here, and we don't have it. Thus rendering the above argument as invalid

 

[Mike Muz]

they have death penalty in US, yet their murder rate is higher than here, and we don't have it. Thus rendering the above argument as invalid

Guns are legal there though Tim

 

[Pyro Tim]

but we know guns don't kill people,

rappers do

 

[Mike Muz]

Surely , if most people have them , as many adults do in the US , the potential for killing is greater , and don't they have different degrees of murder ? Not sure what they are , but may explain the statistics

 

[Alison]

Yes ,
There will always be people who will be guilty without any doubt whatsoever . That can be the only time when I think it's appropriate . Without paying the ultimate price , surely there is no deterrent to commit the worst possible crime of murdering someone in the first place .

Life in prison, well they are not likely to have much chance for further activity. actually incarceration is a lot worse than you think, not being able to go out, meet mates, have a drink, or even just nip to the supermarket. You'll say this has no relevance but I was locked up for 4 and half months, OK in a psychiatric hospital, but I couldn't go anywhere, very little access to my family, about twice in that time did I see my children, no alcohol, no time outside, moving from one building to another had to be supervised, it was no better than prison and I hated it, believe me loosing your liberty for life is not a holiday by any stretch of the imagination.

And you say there are cases with no doubt, yes there are until that moment when some new evidence suddenly casts doubt on a seemingly cut and shut case.

Alison