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What the Heck
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Clear cut, a life for a life.
I don't want to pay to keep a sicko in jail because he/she killed a kid.
They should die by the same means. If they torched a house and killed my own kids, give me a wooden shed, can of petrol and a match and I'll deal the punishment myself.
There's no place in society for ppl like them.
What rights has a dead person got?
What rights has a dead baby got left?
What rights has a dead family got?
In answer to those questions, absolutely none beacuse the criminal has got them, thanks to the ones who support them and want to keep them alive.
If I had a wish, I would wish a killer who was spared execution to be let out of jail and kill someone's family member who supported the ban on capital punishment. Then it might sink in. |
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Ben Gunn
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Yes of course. We should always lower ourselves to the level of the criminal. |
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simonmoffit
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there should not be the death penalty because innocent people will be murdered by the state.
and that is all the death penalty is, state sanctioned murder. how can the state hold the moral high ground whilst murdering its citizens no matter how distasteful that individual maybe. |
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Allen B
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No, we have already hung innocents in the past.
The British judicial system has to let people out of prison regularly who have been found innocent latterly.
Some might say 1 innocent death is okay as the majority are guilty!
That is fine until it is you or yours facing the death penalty!
Others say that only if you are 100% sure, which is ridiculous, since the only people that go to jail are found 100% guilty.
Some say if there is 100% DNA, but people have been let out of jail having been put there on DNA evidence.
I prefer the alternative where life in prison should mean just that! |
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joan k
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Ron is right, there are far too many miscarriages of justice to even contemplate reintroducing the death penalty. |
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agreeable
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Britain has moved away from sanctioned 'barbarism', and will not go back to it. Leave it to the Americans and all the other states still committing state sanctioned murder. |
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C'est Pas Vrai!
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No, the death penalty should never be enforced, not anywhere. Life in prison (a shitty prison at that) would be worse for most anyway.
However, no legal system is without flaw, and therefore the death penalty is unethical. |
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ron
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Let me answer that question with another one, had you been the judge at the Birmingham Six trial, or the Guildford Four trial, and hung the participants, which is what both judges said that they wanted to do but couldn't, how would you feel after they had all been found not guilty? |
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Rommel
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definitely. but we would need a police force. not the revenue collectors that try to pass for policemen that we have now. but with a decent police force trained to actually uphold the law. and hunt down criminals PROPERLY!!! we might hope to see our children safely playing in the streets again.....in the case of people like Ian Huntley, i really see no point in keeping them alive at all. our legal system is just there to make money. it has nothing to do with upholding the law and keeping citizens safe AT ALL. in fact i go further and say that our legal system is actually making our streets more dangerous, by letting criminals know that they are unlikely to face punishment. |
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Susan S
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First take a look at the experience of the USA with capital punishment. We also have life without parole here.
You don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people.
125 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.
The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t.
We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.
The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.
The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?
The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.
Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person. |
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andi.wilding
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peadofilia .. stoned to death for wrecking that kids life |
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parspants
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We still have the death penalty for high treason and for setting a fire in Her Majesty's docks.
(She hates it if the burnt smell gets onto her socks) |
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rogerglyn
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Yes!.
For dropping chewing gum on the pavement.
Now-a-days all other crimes are officially deemed acceptable and generally rewarded. |
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Pleasant Peter Perkins
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No.....fatal.....there is no crime so evil that we should all become murderers to balance it morally or ethically. |
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yecart19710
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yes defiantly. a slow painful one for paedophiles, murderers to name just a couple |
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j.pee69
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Terrorism, Paedophillia and Murder of kids!!! Oh and rapists should get castrated!! |
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Animemadness
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I think that rapists and phedophiles, those who torture and murder should get the death penality merely because they are worthless human beings and shouldn't be allowed to have freedom after a mere 15 years or so. |
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lulu
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Not unless a full confession is given. If we had the death penalty where would Colin Stagg be now, if the police entrapment had worked, and he couldn't have proved his innocence .................?
Ruth Ellis RIP |
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Cassie's Mums watching you
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Eye for an Eye (proven of course) |
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Dr.John L
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I am totally opposed. No civilised government should have it,In of error you can't take it back The Bible says thou shalt not kill |
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Lovely Rita Meter Maid
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paedophilia and child murder/cruelty should carry the death penalty |
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angrymammal
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No, there's no excuse or place for the death penalty in the modern world and listening to idiots baying for it is just plain boring. |
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fivetoze
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well whatever you commit you must be guilty, without doubt, as its not lazarus were killing.. and just as in hanrattys case, a full pardon 30yrs later isnt a lot of good, is it? |
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purplepunch
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paedophillia and murdering children, should most definelty get the death penatly, even though they deserve something worse than death, torture on a daily basis maybe... |
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marky
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killers should be!! and legal immigrants |
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Barbie V
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I believe that some crimes should be punishable by death - such as murder of children, terrorists and such like people as to how I think the punishment should match the crime - harsh I know but to day there are no real deterrents |
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jfezjd
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I don't believe in the death penalty. |
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Capt Jack
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I did have this idea that we could somehow make the death penalty morally just if we made it optional. Say for serial killers and rapists who had a sentance of 30 years or more. Sort of "We can put you away for the rest of your life, or you can apply to have it commuted to death".
I thought some more and it wouldn't work. Only the more vulnerable criminals would take it, including the innocent driven suicidal by being put inside for something they didn't do. |
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