Do you think that capital punishment should be considered now, for rapists, murderers, and paedophiles?

woovan

I agree, we are far to easy on young offenders etc, when you see people getting less than 2 years for murder it makes the justice system a bit of a mockery. We need to toughener up on punishment - why should tax payers pay for crimes!

I don't think it is fair when I see people let out after a short service only to committ more crimes.

BUNGLE!!

rapists, murderers and paedos should all be castrated, then hung drawn and quartered over a period of two weeks...

mikydotcom

No...but only because D.N.A can be flawed, as people on here have said...and has already been proved in quite a few country's to date...were D.N.A to be 100% accurate however--then yes, most definately. I fervently believe though that in the absence of 100% D.N.A accuracy that rapists, paedo's and murderers should have a LIFE sentence, WITHOUT the possibility of a parole system with regards their heinous crime's. I am sure that a few 75 year minimum sentences--without parole--handed down by a strict judge--(ON THE SIDE OF LAW AND THE VICTIM'S FOR ONCE!)--would go some way to halting these crimes. The younger people convicted now would be so old when they come out of jail, that they wouldn't be able to do anything without the aid of a zimmer frame and a carer, and the older ones there now would die before parole is considered. Another post to your question mentioned the easy life prisoner's get nowaday's--this should be stopped also--if we must, we should go back to the draconian methods of penal servitude--good old fashioned PUNISHMENT--where life with hard labour MEANT life with hard labour, it meant serving your sentence...not playing about on playstation's and the like--that's not what a prison is about! The law lords must make the very idea of prison, the knowledge that if you take someone's life away--(for the offences mentioned)--that your's WILL be forfeit for AT LEAST 75 years--locked up 23 hours out of 24, so utterly distasteful to people that they would not even consider breaking the law...this is the only way.

LYNDA M

it should have been considered years ago,that way their victims wouldnt have to be victims,excellent question.

june july

Yes they should put them all on a tight ship send it out to sea and let them have freedom on board or they could tattoo them on the nose or somewhere visible where everyone can see what they have done

jules

Where murders are concerned why not!! Everyone going on about equal rights all the time, whats equal about murdering someone then getting a term in jail, only to get early parole, life for a life i say!!!!

BAD MONKEY

YES but politicians would rather give them tickets to disney land.

Fletcher

Yes we don't use it enough

traceyparis@btinternet.com

yes i do

sunnybums

I think YES as long as the proof is without question, as others have said there have been miscarriages of justice, there have been some who have got off because of a slight technicality, even though they admitted they did it !! Also there have been those offenders who have been let out of jail after 10yrs and committed the same offence !!! there are some like the Jamie Bulger case, they Will soon be released, given new identity and will be relocated to Australia. what kind of punishment is that, they should have hung for what they did.

spannerbox

I think its a good answer to the problem,so long as there is absolutely no doubt that they committed the crime. Why should they get the privilege of life, when they've taken a life ?

AL IS ON VACATION AND HAS NO PIC

No. They should abolish it.

JoJo

Yes, as long as there is no doubt, and they don`t get off because of some defence lawyer scoring one over his opponent. (I dont know how some defence lawyers sleep at night).

badjanssen

thats too easy...lock em all up on one island...let em sort themselves out...

sarah c

No, studies have shown that if the penalty is the same as for murder, they have no incentive to leave their victim alive and are more likely to kill them to stop them giving evidence.
Also, even DNA evidence is not 100% foolproof, two people can and do have the same DNA. Duplicates have been deleted from the police database - they do exist.

CARL GREEN1

Who was it who said "It is better that three innocent men die than for one guilty man to go free"?
serious now capital punishment needs bringing back, child killers can never be made better a proven fact, also other classes of killers when banged to rights by the old bill with not the slightest chance of a mistake should also get the chop

Captain Sarcasm

We certainly need a national debate on capital punishment. Society is breaking down because of a lack of respect for the law and a lack of fear of breaking the law. Perhaps now is the time to redress the balance and put serious criminals in fear of law abiding society instead of the other way around.

musonic

You mean, like ensuring that more women and children are murdered rather than abused and assaulted, so as to silence the evidence?

It's a good job that the idiots who ask these questions are too stupid to be in government.

trigga1uk

Note to badjanssen: They already have, its called australia!

susi

without question! I don't want anyone's taxes funding their daily existence.......

fivetoze

yes, considered, and dismissed. we have a nice colony in teh middle of the atlantic ocean called las malvinas... oh no, that was teh argie name, its the falklands...

bugger all there bar a few thousand sheep and a garrison...and a military airstrip... and escape would be nigh on impossible... argentina is 2000 miles away... and thats the closest port...

ship em out, for a life of hard labour and a gruelling slow miserable existence... we did it in australia, so why not the falkland islands?

NIcole

I think they should all be given a stool and a rope!!

Dino4747

Considered...No Used....Hell YES! It should be done within a year of conviction and played on television for all to see. This would give would-be offenders a visual of what might befall them, if they carry out their desires and intentions.

cassidy

yes!

tigertigertiger

There are too many miscarriages of justice and corrupt police to contemplate bringing back capital punishment, remember that it was abolished for a reason.
There is no evidence that it is a crime deterent.
There is also a large number of relatives and victims of crime who prefer life sentences to the idea of execution as they feel it is a greater punishment (think of the amount of convicts who try to commit suicide in prison) and they also don't want to degrade themselves to the level of the criminal by acting in a calculated and violent way which would make us a society of hypocrites. How could we preach civility to other countries if we can't rise above such behaviour?

jupiteress

Y E S

uk_bod2006

Yes and it really cuts down on the cost of the appeals to

L_H Qutub(Retired)

As the old saying goes " IT'S BETTER TO BE LATE THAN NEVER".
Include the alcoholics too.

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