do you think capital punnishment is the way forward in britain?

Question

with all the violent drug related murders, peodophilia, and gang related crimes that have risen considerably on these shores.
Do you think that sentencing them to death would be cheaper for the tax paying public and reduce such crimes because i think for one that ALL drug dealers/barrons should be lethaly injected with there own sh*t. And how can we resolve drug problems the world over?

Answer 1

Yes. People on here are saying that innocent people lost their lives in the past......well this is'nt the past, the advances in forensic science would rule out any possibility of sentencing an innocent to death nowadays. It would save the tax payers billions each year, would make the streets a safer place and make criminals think twice. However I would only agree to it for serious crimes like murder, peadophilia etc, not just drug dealing. In an ideal world I would like to see all convicted drug dealers/users stealing and spoiling life for others to feed their habit, all locked in a gigantic housing estate, inaccessible to all but themselves, where they are not allowed to see their families, where they can cheat and rob each other silly whilst leaving the rest of us alone. Should they decide to change their ways and become clean for a sustained length of time they may be free to live in society again. I know this sounds like fantasy land but I wish it was true. I fear for my sons future because of these people.

Answer 2

Violence breeds violence, and capital punishment is violence. No, person has the right to take another person's life.
We have a problem because our legal system has become so complex that we never really know if anyone is guilty or not.

The real way forward is to examine why these crimes occur.

My idea is that we need a complete revamp in government. Not just change the people, but complete;y change the way we think about government.
When the current system of democracy was created the population of England was about a sixth of what it is now. So there were 659 MPs for about 10 million people, being a representation ratio of about 15000 to 1.

Now, we have 646 MPs, and about 60 million people giving a representation factor of about 93,000 to one.

So each persons representation has reduced by around 600%.
In other words, you now get about one sixth of the representation that a citizen in 1801 got.
This is obviously ludicrous. and is absolute evidence of a need for a change.

As the population has increased so dramatically, then the effectiveness and fairness of a central government has reduced.
What we now need is an increase in the power of local government, and a reduction in the power of central government.
I propose that we should bring back something akin to the parish councils. We should have constituencies of a maximum of 500 families. These constituencies should have total control over the lives of its constituents, with no interference from outside, They must provide all of their own facilities such as school, health care, pensions, police, ar anything which they feel that they need.
If they feel that they are too small for a particular project or service, then they negotiate with nearby constituencies to make suitable arrangements. There would be no higher level arbitrator. Full responsibility would rest at the local level.

The benefits of this are enormous. Firstly, everybody would know everybody else within a constituency, so when a problem arises it would be easy to get to the source of the problem, because it would be to everyone's benefit to do so. This alone would reduce terrorism and serious crime to a minimum. A sort of neighbourhood watch scheme in which everybody takes full part, and makes the decisions.

Anyway, that is my idea of the way forward - definitely not UK wide capital punishment

Answer 3

What you are asking about is contained in deterrent theory. When it come to Capitol offenses, there are a few issues that are raised. First, most murders are crimes of passion, and at the point of commission of the crime, the perp is not thinking beyond the instantaneous action which will lead to the victim's death. Second, unless you have witnessed proof of the person committing the action, there is always the possibility that the perp is not the felon that is suspected. Third, evidence to gain a conviction can be tampered with. Fourth, race still plays a factor in felony convictions and capitol convictions and executions may just be a way of punishing the race that is least desirable in a society. The penal colony is still far more favorable then execution.

Answer 4

that's a backwards step, sadly capital punishment has cost the lives of people wrongly charged in the past and that's a risk I would not want to take. having worked in the criminal justice system, I do understand where you are coming from, but violence begets violence.. I don't have an answer for the situation we seem to find our selves in at the moment, having been a victim of crime three times this year- it does wear you down, but I don't think capital punishment is the way forward.. this is however a good question and open up interesting debate.
the legal process needs to be reviewed as this is often where things start to go wrong.. we need sentences to reflect the crime, and the length of sentence to stand for the term of imprisonment. Now most convicted criminals get auto release at Half Way point, there are different rules for more serious and repeater offenders.. sadly this does not always work either.

Answer 5

Yes, i think capital punishment should be re-instated. With technology as it currently is there is a higher chance of identifying/capturing and sentencing the culprit. For those convicted of cold-blooded murder(s) who are going to spend a lifetime in prison, why waste tax payers money, execute them and get them out of the system, this would definitely make potential murderers think twice before committing a crime and destroying peoples lives. Paedophiles also need executing as i personally do not think rehabilitation works as efficiently as we are led to believe. Once you have an uncontrollable urge to destroy a child's life how is that controlled?! I would like to say remove their genitals, arms and legs, put them in a box and feed them through a straw and leave them to rot, but this is not a viable answer. Drug dealers/barons should be given to the families of those they have helped to destroy, let the families deal with them and then whatever is left throw their scanky ***'s into prison.

I could so get carried away with this question but i wont.

The justice system needs to change, things are getting worse not better.

Answer 6

This is a tricky one, but there is no place in human society for these animals, they would have to be 100% sure they have the right culprit, but l can't see it happening, they seem to care more about prisoners rights than the victims and some justice needs to be done, they could even bring in hard labour camps or something, instead of letting them watch TV and work out in gyms all day and study for law degrees etc.

Answer 7

I think maybe it should be, especially for people who will never leave prison, we could use that money to help pensioners to have a better life. I bet most prisoners enjoy better home comforts. Yes, drug barons should be given they own drugs. World Powers will have to get together and agree to do something about the problem, but as theres not 100% commitment it will never happen.

Answer 8

i imagine propole continually seem at capital punishment from the incorrect area of the window. we won't be able to do something to regulate those human beings after a lengthy time period of them transforming into who they're. What we truly opt to discourage crime in this us of a is a more effective efficient preparation gadget and developemental studying classes for in threat childrens. How about preparation using birth control? lots of the human beings on demise row on the prompt were undesirable pregnancies and undesirable children and grew up omitted and tossed around the gadget or abused by technique of human beings who are not acceptable for be dad and mom.

Answer 9

I'm against capital punishment and CERTAINLY for drugs related crime. Drugs are a personal choice, so how can you justify killing someone about that? Capital punishment is barbaric and what if you got the wrong person?

Answer 10

By all means ... YES... we as a society are so hung up in the political correctness that we forget we are human beings..Now I am not for killing people, however justice should always come first. For those that don't believe in the death-penalty,tell me that after you've had someone close to you murdered...at that point you will be willing to flip the switch yourself.