What are your views on capital punishment?

Pete T

Bring it back NOW!

angelswings

It all depends on the crime, if it is for paedophiles, then yes, they should be hung by the b**ls , or killing children, the same punishment, last year, a guy, killed my daughter, her fiance and their best friend, through driving at speed, and overtaking without looking, his trial starts on monday, and I for one, would love to see him hang, in fact I would give him the bl**dy rope to do it with !!!

mike b

I'm for it

Too many people found guilty of capital offences later turn out to be innocent. Difficult to pardon someone when the state has killed them

non_apologetic_american

It's proven not to be a deterrent, as administered today it is more costly than a lifetime of solitary confinement, no doubt people that are innocent of the crime accused have been put to death by mistake, and when you consider all of this...the only thing remaining that can be said about capital punishment is that it serves as a form of vengence.

Do we want to be known as a vengeful society?

danskepj

I'm not proud that America is the only Democracy that uses it!!

dude0795

It doesn't seem to be a deterrent to the rest of society but it certainly solves the problem with that criminal.

NutstersChick

bringing capital punishment back here in the UK, could b the answer 2 stopping the habitual serious criminal.
the death penalty needs 2 b re-instated, damn the human rights act. of course it's the against the criminals human rights, he wants 2 continue maiming, killing, robbing the innocent and never face anything worse than a slap on the wrist!
there's no viable deterrent other than death.
or at least remove their human rights 4 the duration of their prison sentence, so they can b punished properly!

Tallboy

This one really brings out the Caring Sharing Sandal Wearing Brigade. The death penalty is Not a deterrent, it is a punishment for a grave crime. It must be quick and humane but I beleive it is right and proper to have it enshrined in law.

Graham H

I hate it, but then I've never lost a loved one to the senseless brutality shown by the morons that roam our streets.
Once a life has been taken it can't be given back and a life for a life is poor recompense for loss of a loved one. I doubt I'd feel happier knowing the murder of my child (say) had been sent to the gallows. Wouldn't bring them back. But then I read about the wasted life of a young man stabbed by two useless good for nothings and think.. would they have been deterred by the death penalty? Somehow though reason tells me they wouldn't. Let them rot in jail for life, but make LIFE LIFE, not a holiday.

funky munky is back

Bring it back, the prisons in this country are overflowing with criminals. We are going to the dogs.

Enigma

The only thing I can say about that is I hate to see someone die that may be innocent but as long as baby raping murders exist yea I say Death By Lethal Injection.

im1hxclover

i dont feel that it should be someones job to decide whether someone should die or live ...there are different scenerios for it though u know

starryeyed

Forget the whole thing.
If you had a kid, and that kid was killed, you'd be unspeakably upset.
If your child was killed during an 8% increase in murders statewide, you might wonder what caused it.
If there is a body of research that says that everytime the state announces a capital punishment, this is the kind of increase in pain we will see for its citizens, would you support it?
No more than the victim's families would support letting their own family's killer live...
So, since my ethics are very pragmatic, I say:
Stop the killing, stop wasting money.
But do chain them to the walls with as many locks as you see fit to prevent them from killing guards and getting out.
You want it to look like a nasty old dungeon? I don't really care.
Oh, except one or two are indeed innocent.
OK well keep them clean and lock them up as you wish.

Corvinus

Hang them high!
Won't commit another murder.

dick19532003

hanged if i know lol
seriously I'm honestly not sure all i know is if the courts make a mistake its irreversible .

Big T

I've been watching (no. I'm not an officer of the state - though I might be), and I see that all the old arguments are being brought forward.
As I, a simple man, see it, it is plainly wrong for a state to take the life of one of its citizens if it (the state) outlaws murder. The state is effecitvely saying "you can not kill, but I can". If it allows murder then that might be a different scenario, but I can't imagine it.
People convicted of murder, in the western system, are convicted "beyond any reasonable doubt", so let's foerget the caveats of DNA, CCTV, etc. etc. If you are found guilty in a western democracy it is "beyond reasonable doubt".
So, how come there are people who, under that system, are found to have been innocent all along?
Perhaps it is because of the frailty of the process that the English judicial system and parliament decided to do away with the death penalty.
To differentiate levels of offence, to the degree that some responders have, is simply illogical. You cannot be so picky.
That is exactly why we no longer have the death penalty in the UK.
Unless and until there is an absolute certainty that the whole process gets it right, and allowing that people make mistakes, I suggest that so long as judgements have to be made, by the police, by forensics, by the CPS, by judges, by jurors, by courts of appeal, by people I'm sure I've left out, that it will be unlikely that there will always be the absolute certainty of getting it right every time
Exactly how do you say sorry to the relatives and loved ones of someone you got it wrong about?

WILLIAM Bowie

people go on about the wrights of criminals and how unjust it is to execute them for taking a another persons life.put the money issue to one side and ask your self and the criminal this question. when did they have the wright take another persons life? we can all sit in our homes feeling safe, a criminal can take your home and life away in seconds and not care. one life taken causes family and friends to be scared for life. life has no price.

Spud55

If it weren't for having to feed the convicts, I'd say capital punishment is their easy way out.

richard_beckham2001

Bring it back asap

little weed

Where it is proven beyond all doubt that someone murdered then hanging should be brought back..... especially for the murder of a police offficer. I would be the hangman and I expect there would be thousands of other volunteers too.A life for a life is fair justice.Why should a proven murderer languish in a cushy jail at the tax payers' expense ? I say hang 'em.
It's all very well for the Bible Bashers to say God said this ,and God said that, but God can't bring back a murdered child or wife or husband.

its me...

if someone kills someone else... they should die... after a its been confirmed

and to Steven B... you obviously dont know the bible...

maze

Bring it on!!!

It defintely will cut crime rates as the criminals will be deterred from such activity. Obviously capital punishment should not totally replace our system but should support as back up in order to be used for hardcore crims....

Deport all ILLEGAL Alien INVADER

To slow to use
used to little

Chuckler

'Let the person who is without sin cast the first stone' said Jesus Christ our Creator. The capital offence the woman had committed was adultery I think. Everyone dropped their killing stones and walked away.
Everyone should have a chance to ask for forgiveness-and be granted it. The world would be complete hell without forgiveness I would imagine.

snowgoose8

Most murders are committed when the person is in a highly emotional state. They are not really thinking about consequences, and thus capital punishment is largely useless as a deterrent to murders.

Studies show that capital punishment falls more often on racial minorities and the mentally feeble-minded.

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