Are you pro/anti death penalty? Why?

claire

I think rape, murder and paedophilia should carry the death penalty BUT... the people convicting them of the crime would have to be absolutely 100% certain that they were guilty. They would have to be caught red handed in case of a mistake and unfortunately this rarely happens so I don't think it's practical. Also, who is anyone to take another's life?

origamimark

Pro. Stop wasting money keeping these no-hopers alive.

tommy

pro..I'm sick of scum doing as they like for shitty sentences......eradicate them!

xbrex43

Pro. Why should the people have to pay for a worthless **** to live, when he ****** up someone elses life? If you don't understand the value of life, you do not deserve it. Simple as that.
Rape, molestation, and murder should carry the death penalty.
And no, its not working. It's taking too long to get them in the chair.

liongirl_40

I am for the Death Penalty. I am from South Africa and 13 years ago they did away with the death penalty and since then the crime rate has more than doubled a live means nothing to the criminal element in my country. I feel that it works as a good deterrent for crime.

''H''

i am against he death penalty, but believe we should torture the most evil of offenders
pedophiles,child killers etc
they should know that when caught they will be tortured beyond belief, every other day(a day to recover will mean more torture in the long run) for as long as they survive, totally inhumane stuff cutting off fingers etc pulling off toes and pouring acid on the wounds real nasty stuff instant death is far too good for some,like the guy who just killed five in amish school, killed himself no more pain for him,coward! but endless pain for the parents

Dee

I am anti death penalty!
If it is the answer to all society's criminal problems why doesn't it work in the USA!!
The death penalty was in force at the time Brady and Hindley were killing - if it's such a powerful deterrent why did they torture and kill? and as for the brigade who call for it in the case of child killers, that's ignorant...what do you say to parents 'ok, your child was 15, so the killer dies but not yours because he/she was 17!'
I believe that life should mean life - again, all Myra Hindley wanted was to be free - death would have been an easy option. Keep them in prison for life but lay off on the perks.

Dan

I am anti death penalty.

I feel that if someone would comit such a horific crime (along the lines of Ian Huntley, Boulger's killers and Sarah Payne) that the death penalty is far to good them.

They will be given a lethal injection, probably feel no pain and slowly slip by. I am a tax payer and i am happy for part of my tax to go toward keeping these killers in prison until the day they die. I feel that you would be giving the person who commited the crime what they want (Huntley recently tried to kill himself)

Let the ba****ds rot in prison for what they have done - even that is too good for them!

rollingergrund

If the reason for the death penalty is to act as a deterrent. It does not not work. If there is another reason that reason most likely not defendable.

Some of the answers on here really beggar belief. Particular the South African, this is a country where 20 years ago most violent crime was not reported and when it was reported was often not receorded by the police. South Africa is safe a place as it has been for a long time. In the townships they have vigilante groups that perform isntant executions this has had no impact on reducing violent crime.

The death penalty should never exist an a civilised and liberal society.

hayley50

i don't think justice system works and it hasn't worked in long time all you have to see is watch the news lately to know the prisons are totally full and people who are out early on parole re-offend. i do think so sort of death penalty would work on extreme case's like Maria hindley , Fred (when he was alive ) and Rosemary west where there was no doubt that they did the crimes

Jackie

I am anti. To be honest I was really pro death penalty but I had to do research and an essay on it for college. The evidence was quite scary in the working class black people fill death row in the states - the richer ones can afford a good lawyer. Seems that the poor suffer with this and the rich get away with it so I'd like things to stay as they are unless its for murdering a child or maybe even rape. Another problem was that several have been found to be innocent after the event. This is obviously very unacceptable...

PRO STRAP EM AND ZAP EM !!

MANC & PROUD

Pro,have you seen in the papers today the cost of keeping the likes of Ian Huntly on suicide watch is costing the tax payers 500,000 pounds per year,plus every other perk he is getting.It's time too clean up our prisons.

Paris, je t'aime

I believe that the death penalty is a great punishment, i find it to be stupid, that a person just to sit in a jail cell for the rest of their life, i believe that they should be killed the same way they killed that one person!!!!!

Raide UK

Eye for an eye and tooth for tooth.

Whatever you do to someone else, should happen to you. Justice in the correct sense.

Pia

Anti.
It hurts them more to keep them alive

Dove

Very Much PRO. I also think every case angle should be exhausted before actually putting them to death. For some this would be more merciful than spending their whole lives in Prison. Granted if you are going to be put to death with the way that our system works you will still be in Prison for most or all of your life. However if people would go ahead and use the needle then we would not have all the over crowding.

13caesars

Anti death penalty.

First reason: its wrong to take life.

Second: it is a punishment that once inflicted cannot be reversed or compensated for. If you hold a prisoner and new evidence comes to light at some future time proving innocence, then the state can and should provide some measure of compensation. How are you going to compensate a corpse?

Third: very inefficient and wasteful. In America, most of those on Death Row have been there for years, with the only beneficiaries being lawyers, being paid out of taxes, to object against pleas about commuting the sentence to life. These constant return to the courts ties up the judicial system as well. And I'm not blaming the defendant. Who would not argue for ones life?

Four: its a mark of a civilised country how we treat people on the fringes of society. Prison punishes by removal of liberty. The aim, if possible, should be rehabilitation of the individual into society, in order to make ammends for past crimes. Kind of hard to do if you're dead.

Weti G

I am pro death penalty. But it must be in a sense of eye for eye.

Lisa W

im a bit of both, some people are sentencd to death and after this they are actualy not guilty. in this case you have killed an innocent person and canot bring them back. and if you kill them then it dosent give them chance to reform. and it makes us as bad as them. however this is good satisfaction for the victims and families. thy feel justice has been done. i dont know why i feel this way but i do. i would sent serial killers/rapists to death every time.

zekips

Anti death penalty because violence perpetuates violence.

The change I would make is to have more community service so petty criminals put something back into society rather than rot in prison.

david c

Anti for the following reasons:
Even with modern technology mistakes can be made. What happens if you put someone to death and later find out that person was innocent. There is no way back
Killing someone is wrong and in a civilised society the death penalty has no place,
It has not been proved that having a death penalty reduces serious crime.
People advocating the death penalty are not looking for justice but revenge. That is no basis to run a judicial system.
How would I change the system:
Paedophiles should never be released.
If someone is sentenced to life it should mean the only way they leave prison is in a coffin.
Anyone carrying a knife should be sent to prison for 5 years with no parole or early release.
Anyone illegally carrying a gun should be sent to prison for 10 years with no parole or early release
Abolish parole or early release so that prisoners are made to serve what length of serntence they were given
If a foreign national commits a crime and is found guilty deport that person immediately
Have consistent sentencing. Two people found guilty of a similar crime may get different sentences depending on what judge they come before.

oldfootlose

Once convicted of murder or rape, any violent crimes, that we are plagued with today and the death penalty assigned, you die within 6 months. No more 20 years of appeals. Now, we have to many pansy azz liberal judges, who are not the peoples advocate.
I am American. But, I hope they stay tough and intolerant of crime. Especially terrorism.

I need a vacation!

i'm for death penalty.. think about the rapist and murders.. do u think keeping in prison can make them a changed person.. i think NOT!..

ravindran_kc.alhadhrami

Pro. If anybody is proved to have committed a murder, let the law makers eradicate him if the relatives of the victims wish so.

michael k

It should be used sparingly.There are some people who are so vile that death is is the only thing suitable.

idhard2find&looking

it does not matter what any one thinks about the death penalty in the UK, we cant have it, EU laws, which the UK signed up to.

Peter M

Pro death, it saves money they can't re-offend, with the advances in DNA the conviction is safe.

The current system is not working prison is easy, it should be harder.

Guineapig

The death penalty still exists for arson [?] in Her Majesty's Dock Yards. I believe that the death penalty should be reintroduced for gun crime - except for owners of homes whose lives are threatened by unlawful intruders, for murder - except in families, for killing a policeman/policewoman, for the mindless murder by groups of yobs by kicking and punching their victim and finally - I believe it should also apply to Prime Ministers who by International Standards take the country to war illegally together with any members of their cabinet or civil service who actively participate in the final decision by providing unsound advice and information.

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