Death Penalty?

PatsyC

Yes - where it is 100% proof, like the Yorkshire Ripper, Huntley etc they will never get out so why pay thousands a week on them to keep them in comfort while our pensioners freeze to death this winter.

Also any immigrants who do a crime should be expelled as soon as and never allowed to come back in. Although I doubt if this would happen, people are coming in all the time without being checked. I think we should close our borders for a while and get ourselves sorted. Any undesirables get a one way ticket.

charliecat

YES, I have lived in Britain when we did have the death penalty, people were more respect full, and abides by the law more, if you killed anyone whilst involved in a crime you hung, if you carry a gun, knife, or weapon designed to kill you plan to use it so its only right you get the max sentence.
Return all guilty parties to there home country in a body bag.

ann w

IF A PERSON WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A DANGER TO OTHER PEOPLE OR EVEN LOCKED UP FOR THE REST OF THEIR NATURAL LIFE THEN YES. WITH TODAYS DNA THEIR IS NO REASON TO DOUBT THEIR GUILT.
I ALSO BELEIVE THAT RAPISTS AND CHILD MOLESTERS SHOULD BE SURGICALLY CASTRATED BEFORE RELEASE SO THAT THEY CANNOT REOFFEND, CHEMICAL CASTRATION DOES NOT WORK, IT RELYS ON THE OFFENDER TAKING PILLS!
ALL NON UK RESIDENTS SHOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY DEPORTED REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY ARE FROM, IF THEIR HOMELAND IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR THEM, THEY SHOULD OF THOUGHT OF THAT FIRST!
I WOULD VOTE FOR ANY PARTY THAT WOULD BRING THESE MEASURES IN!

goinbonkers2

HELL YES!!! and no trial that is going to cost the tax payers any money or give the dirtbag any publicity. do it and do it QUICK! no friggin ten years on death row!

mrssandii1982

Yes and yes.

It is about time this country stopped spending tax payers money on criminals, and even worse that it is spent of foreign criminals.
They should be deported at the first sign that they have done wrong.

We, as a nation are a push-over and its about time it stopped!

The Instructor

1.Yes and when its 100% proof they should be hanged slowly so there neck doesnt break and they have to endure the pain of there victims. Save us wasting money keeping them in prison.

2. Also yes they should be flogged then sent on there merry way in a cramped hot unsanitary cargo ship to prepare them for arriving home and to help them understand what there going to miss for there crimes.

Truman

Absolutely. America still has the death penalty in a lot of states so why shouldn't England. I would love to see some of these child killers hung.

Yes people should be deported if they've committed a crime and don't have full residency.

wacky weed

#1 yes
#2 In a body bag

Stâ™¥rmy Skye

Yes, to both. It would save the community of good people,in the U.S., save them grief and heartache. Deporting is the only answer for criminals who think they can come here to do their dastardly deeds. I have ALWAYS been a firm believer in the death penalty. Only problem is, the "justice" system. It gives the criminals all of the rights, and victims none. So, over 30 years of appeals and a huge waste of taxpayer money, these worthless low lifes live like kings and queens, courtesy of us good, law abiding people. I say death to ALL where there is 100% eviidence. ALL! Having said that, the laws need to be changed so as to stop the years of appeals. If the U.S. allowed for Saddam to be executed within 30 days, there is absolutely NO reason why we can't do the same. Super great question.

andrew w

yes

Difi

i support death penalty but the other one.

steve50

YES

johnny cee

The death penalty is one thing no country should be without.
I Cr 13;8a

terry

yes definatly an eye for an eye etc......bring the birch back also although with the way the country is run it would not matter as you get away with murder now and get treated like customers at the hilton in prison also learn trades when folk outside can hardly make ends meet.

bwadsp

Think how much it cost to keep Mara Hindly in jail and how many lives could have saved with that money.

Vulture38

I used to think so, but Then I read "The Chamber" By John Grisham.

What constitutes 100% evidence.

I understand that several years ago, a Chicago Law professor set his students a task to look at the cases of about 20 inmates on death row in Illinois. Many of them were proved innocent, and several had their sentence commuted.

This was on the work of STUDENTS.

However i do agree in deportation, and I do believe that a life sentence should be that.

Aries

Yes, yes and yes. With DNA the way it is these days it is becoming easier to prove WHO DONE IT....and I don't think that people whose case was not proven should claim for Â£500,000. Just because the verdict wasn't reached by the jury doesn't mean someone is innocent in my eyes.

pennee_l

I donot agree with the DeathPenalty. But, in saying this I know I would kill anyone who interfered with my children, or hurt them in amy way. I agree with the second part of your question.

irish eyes

yes and yes...............life in prison isn't fair for all the people that are impacted by the criminal, if there is not a doubt then the death penalty is very appropriate. If someone is in our country and commits a crime they need to be sent to their home country and banned from returning to the US ever again. If you committed crimes in alot of their countries we would die in their prisons.

gadmack2000

Yeah, It should never have been scrapped. But I think that people should be tried in the country in which the committed a crime, and punished accordingly.

DeeDee

Absolutely!! why should tax payers money be keeping these people at a phenomenal cost per year when they are 100% guilty? and the prisons are over flowing, apparently they are talking about a 'waiting list' system for prisons now!! . . . .imagine ''We find the defendant guilty m'lud'' judge passes sentence and ''we'll be in touch when we have room for you!! in the meantime please try not to commit any more heanous crimes!!''
It's crazy!! I once met a guy who used to be a phsyci nurse and looked after Ian Brady the moors murderer, apparently that beast, sees no wrong in what he and Myra Hindley did, wants to get out so he can do it again!! and the really scary thing is apparently he is a very, very intelligent 'man'!!!
Shudder to think how much it has cost the tax-payer to keep that beast (he doesn't deserve to be called man) since he was locked up!

Bumumble

yes

Daisy Roots

Yes,and people who spout hatred against our country and refuse to swear allegiance to th Queen should be hung for treason,that law still exists but is not used.

manforallseasons

Based upon your question, many Americans soldiers would by now have been retured from Iraq and put to death.

MICHAEL P

This is an age old issue and will always be on people's agendas. We all know the old sayings .. 'a life for a life' ... 'an eye for an eye' ..... etc ..... and in the spirit of the thing, it seems fair to execute someone who killed another human being by design and with full intent. But I suggest that reasonable thinking needs to extend well beyond that simple sentiment. It would certainly be a punishment but a deterrent? Who knows? However, the word 'justice' crops up here and the death penalty, under the conditions you describe, certainly seems to be justice, however rough. You will always get split opinions here I am afraid. Certainly for death by acts of terror, it seems right, even if it does augment martyrdom. The trouble with this is that discussion will always produce doubt ..... and that's why we have no active death penalty in this country. Personally I would feel safer and have more faith in the law if we did have a death penalty. However, it is not a definitive answer and never will be, I am afraid.
As for sending guilty people home .... 100% YES!

shootdenpoint

yes if 100% certain
yes again

Wal

Yes, I live in Switzerland and it is quite normal to send an offender of a serious crime back to his " Original" country even after the sentence has been served, Original country means his families origins even if the person was born here and he / she is of foreign decent and has the right to live here he can still be ousted

Blitzhund

I maintain that America is proof not why we SHOULD have the death penalty but why we Should NOT.

Firstly, the death penalty is no deterrent to crime. Crime rates don't drop in countries that have the death penalty. At all. Look at the rates in Texas, Missouri and Florida (the 3 biggest death penalty states) and you'll see that all 3 have some of the highest crime rates in the USA (St. Louis,MO and Jacksonville, FL especially!).

Secondly, the death penalty would be implemented in this country in much the same way it has in the USA. Which means countless appeals which would further tie up the courts and in the end cost us more to kill them than keep them locked up forever.

Thirdly, why should we return guilty people to their home country? Why does that matter? In fact it could actually come out badly if we deported people to third world nations where the criminal could play on corrupt justice systems and either get the sentence commuted or worse in some countries, be treated as some kind of hero.

However, if the person serves their full sentence first then yes, if they are a foreign national then they should be sent back. However, unless the crime is treason, we can't strip a UK citizen of nationality and send them away.

We don't need the death penalty. We need prisons where life means life - with nothing but the least life substaining environment, hard labor and no (and I mean none) rights to vote or luxuries. If we did this and publicized it, that would be a deterrent.

Cassina R

Ask yourself this question.
Is it wrong to Murder people?

If yes, then the death penalty is wrong.
If no, then murder away as you like.

The Death Penalty is MURDER. the act and intention is the same.

ALunaticFriend

What crime. Don't kill someone for shoplifting. I would say yes for murder though. No we should triple an illegal immagrants time.

markfromscotland1

yeah i think it would stop this country from being the laughing stock of europe ..and blair would be the first to get his head knocked off for the illegal war in iraq..

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