What are the arguements i can make for capital punishment being legalised in the UK?

MR JEDI FOX ESQ

TWO murdering bastds murdered children on the Yorkshire Moors in the 1960's just for fun. Some of the children were never found again. Hindley and Brady spent the next 40 odd years living and breathing.... but NEVER even told the parents of those poor children where they disposed of the bodies.

HANG by their necks until they are truly dead....... a bit late for Hindley as she died in prison eventually. But Brady?

cameronissim...

two french students tortured and stabbed over 200x between them by two nasty junkies, would be one argument.

bicballpoint

Of course capital punishment should be restored in the UK.

As for the guy released after 27 years, when new evidence proved he was innocent for 27 years, illustrates that with the DNA forensics we have today, such a mistake is unlikely to happen.

Which is more barbaric, lock the killer behind bars for the rest of their life, at enormous expense, or to kill them as a warning to others.

Yes, I am aware that America has a higher incidence of murder, but that incidence is much lower per head of population than over here.

We have all heard of killers released on the streets who kill again however, as far as I am aware, no-one executed has returned from the dead to murder anyone else.

Do we not have a duty to protect those most vulnerable in our society?

How many of those crying, 'barbarian' now, would change their minds if it was one of their loved ones who had been murdered?

Tony

The only possible arguments are
a) financial - each prisoner costs around Â£40k per year to keep imprisoned. (That's the figure when I studied law anyway, it may well have increased by now!)
b) more of a deterrent than prison (although there is evidence to suggest that it makes no difference at all - let's face it, a crime that apparently merits death as a punishment is usually committed by someone not necessarily weighing up consequences in their mind at the time of committing it)
c) it satisfies a basic human desire for retribution (but that's quite scary when you actually think about it)
d) it maintains a level of fear-based respect where people might take the law more seriously in a general sense (if I lived in a society that killed people I would be more paranoid about doing wrong and be more likely to behave myself generally)

It's a tough question to answer since we all know there are far more reasons not to have the death penalty. There's very little justification for society essentially monopolising the right to kill. So finding anything at all to say in favour of it is a challenge!

Boris

The arguments for capital punishment are few and far between, while the arguments against are almost endless.

One of the most compelling arguments against is that in states of the US where capital punishment exists, the incidence of violent crimes is much higher. Psychologically, this is due to the fact that once a person who has committed a capital crime, they have nothing left to lose. If you're already going to be executed, what more can happen to you. That's probably why the US has so many multiple homicides. However, if you are going to prison, you may appeal for clemency depending on the severity of the crime, so it is in the best interests of felons to be somewhat self controlled.

You also have a situation where the felon really is in a "kill or be killed" scenario. They can either be killed by those seeking to stop them (ie: law enforcement), be killed by execution after trial, or kill anyone that gets in their way. Therefore, there is no motivation to stand down, only to escalate the severity of crimes committed.

The main advantage of the death penalty is to stop criminals re-offending and to ease over-crowding in gaols, but at what cost?

You end up with a population baying for blood, even before plaintiffs are convicted! What if the ruling is overturned? There's no going back on execution.

There are very good reasons why the UK does not use capital punishment and few good ones why the US does. It is a denial of human rights and an inditement on any state or province that uses it. Capital punishment causes the crown to commit murder, thus lowering the justice system to the level of ordinary criminals. It is morally reprehensible an logically indefensible.

Crowkit

If you had to ask a question like this on YA, then you are not old enough to ask a question like this.

PS. Please learn to spell ... you might just earn a modicum of respect.

(look it up in a dictionary)

callumiain2000

There are no real arguments for capital punishment being legalised but, if I was taking this position for a debate, one of the best arguments I've heard came from a religious man who suggested that it's more humane to end the suffering of someone who's been found guilty of murder than to keep them locked up until the end of their life. I wasn't over convinced by that, to be honest, but you won't find any data to support the death penalty operating as a deterrent - quite the reverse.

Ally P

look in the news. A man named Sean Hodges has just been released from prison after 27 years. He was jailed for a murder which he didn't commit and it took 27 years for him to be released. Would he still be around if we had capital punishment. How would people feel knowing they sent a man to death when he was innocent?

It was a mistake even by forensics. No one stays on Death Row for 27 years, would he be around today if we had capital punishment?

I mean the court's thought they were right for 27 years! it was only until recently that the evidence showed he was innocent.
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James G

There are none. its barbaric, biblical rightwing nonsense

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