i believe that the death penalty should be bought back to the UK?

Question

how many murders and child rapes do you think would have been stopped if the person committing the crime knew that the rope awaited them if caught...a lot i think...and how many of these perverts and murders get out of prison after a few years ...TO MANY.....I SAY BRING BACK THE NOOSE NOW

WELL IAN.I SUPPOSE YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE LIBERALS THAT THINK CHILD RAPISTS CAN BE CURED A FEW YEARS OF THERAPY.....I JUST HOPE YOU KEEP YOUR CHILDREN SAFE.....AND WITH DNA ..THEY CAN BE 100 PER CENT SURE NOW

Answer 1

i totally agree with you, these days what with dna its easier to prove someone is guilty, so when its proven that someone is 100% guilty, yeah, hang em! especially paedophiles they are the lowest of the low

as for ians answer it may of been proven to not prevent further people killing but at least its less of a burden on the tax payer supporting scum like that in prison

Answer 2

Yea cos In the States where they have the Death Penalty, you never hear of anybody being raped or murdered do you? So it really does work as a detterent! And what about the bloodthirsty psycho with the noose? Is he not still a murderer?

That's why people should be made to sit an IQ test before they vote!

Answer 3

Put yourself in the shoes of the man who has just been released from prison after 16 years because the police captured the real killer of his alleged victim by a DNA sample taken from him after he committed another crime. If he had been hanged he could not have been brought back to life could he? Imagine it is you with a noose around your neck knowing you are innocent - really imagine it - how do you feel now? If someone is caught red handed I am with you on hanging but if not, no way. Even with DNA there is a chance of a match with someone else, even if it is a very small chance, put that noose around your neck with DNA saying you did it - again knowing full well you didn't. Still want the death penalty?

Answer 4

I agree that some form of death penalty should be used, with the new DNA testing it would ensure past mistakes would not be made.
It's time we stopped paying to keep murderers in prison to study degrees etc, it cost to put our own kids through university I am annoyed that my tax money goes to pay for murderers to pass degrees.
We are far to lax in prisons these days human rights has gone crazy, the criminal is treat better than the victim and given many benefits in prison. Hard labour is the answer and stop worrying re overcrowding, what a shame they have to share cells, prison is not meant to be a holiday camp for them to enjoy!

Answer 5

I agree with you! There is no justice here in the UK murderers are serving less than the sentence they have been given and they still go out and commit more murders. Look at what happened to Damilola Taylor the two murderers will be free after about 4 years and they're still young. Worse thing there was a lack of remorse on both. They said that prisons are over crowding and that's the reason they let them out.

Answer 6

Herein lies a very emmotive question! My husband and I have have many heated debates. I say yes - he says no. I say if the crime is proved without any reasonable doubt, they should hang, fry, be injected - whatever! He says there is always the possibility of a mistake being made no matter how good the evidence! I personally think if a person has chosen to subject another human to torture, rape, murder (preconceived), they should be erasd from humanity and we should not have to pay for them. I know a lot of people disagree though.

Answer 7

No, because of the last 2 hangings... both were subsequently found to be innocent, hanging is all well and good, but what would your position be if you were assused of murder but innocent?

The police can sometimes in a panic pick anyone to blame (look at the Birmingham 6, they were merely IRA sympathisers and they got put in prison for years for the bombings)

Its a nice idea, but until a 100% fool proof way of extracting the truth is available to us (polygraphs and truth serum only work so far, and with correct training results can be made to vary) we cannot allow the death penalty...

Seriously? the question on previous hanging statistics is similar to, does the death 92 guilty people justify the death of 8 innocent people?

Answer 8

paedophiles will always be around- if you have a perversion it's just there in you and no threat of capital punishment will stop them. as for murders most murders are spur of the moment, they are not calculated and people would not stop to think of the punishment.
the main offender for pre meditated murder are terrorists and if you hang them they will be martyred
i think harsher sentencing and hard labour is the answer but coupled with more rehab. pervs and paedophiles should be locked up forever they will not change

Answer 9

I remember a state in US, at one time, used the death sentence only with two eye witnesses. Even that is long gone.

If we "imprison" all the captured terrorists in the future, we citizens may actually have to exchange places and inhabit the prisons.
I think I remember from history, a 100 year war. We may be repeating history.

Answer 10

For certain crimes I would certainly support it. Terrorism, treason, any kind of serious crime against the country. In these cases I also think it should be done by public hanging where the general public get to win the chance to make them swing in some kind of lottery! Now there's a real prize!

Answer 11

Yet statisically there were just as many murders per million of population then as there are now.
It does not stop people from killing other people.

Thats the end of your argument, it has been proved wrong a long time ago by people cleverer than both of us,do you have a better one?