Will death penalties ever come back to britians law system?

Question

Second week i have read about two fathers, one in wales killing his children and the other in manchester, killing a entire family. What on earth is the world coming too? Surely these murderers should be given a death sentence.

Answer 1

The death penalty will never be introduced and this stance should stay that way. People have told me you can still be executed for treason... this is not the case.

The main reason is no mater what people do, there will always be some corrupt individuals who will not adhere to the procedures of a fair hearing/trial. This will inevitably cause a miscarriage of justice.

It is a total myth that the death penalty reduces crime. What I would say is if a person is determined to kill they will. If they face the death penalty, one may think, kill as many people as the punishment is the same.

I quote the Indian congressman Ghandi “An eye for an eye, soon the whole world is blind”.

Answer 2

The death penalty can not re-enter English law while Britain remains a member of the European Union, because EU membership is conditional upon, amongst other things, the abolition of the death penalty. This is because EU membership requires member states to be signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights. Thus, however bad the crime, the UK is not free to re-introduce the death penalty.

This is why the legislation which proscribed the death penalty for the final three British capital offences (Barratry, High Treason and Arson in Her Mejesty's Dockyards) was repealed in, IIRC, 1997.

Answer 3

The death penalty is a sign that a country is still uncivilised and ineducable. Only despotic regimes now have the death penalty in place. Every religion agrees that 'thou shalt not kill' is the only reasonable course of action - more so the only reasonable course of government in a civilised society. To punish those who kill with the same brutal punishment they meted out on others is flawed thinking and morally bankrupt. The pity of it all is that the American people do not yet realise how brutal, despotic and morally bankrupt the death penalty is. If one looks at the statistics of death sentences carried out one finds that the majority are black and they peak just before elections. Now I don't think it is cynical to say that the taste of the American people for blood and revenge has been identified by American politicians as a vote winner - so naturally death sentences will continue to be carried out prior to elections to satisfy the brutal American psyches lust for blood.

Answer 4

I don't think it will because of European Law - which I wish we could just come out of - especially Human Rights Laws etc. etc. - I want the death penalty to come back to Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales and for Human Rights Law to only stand for people who are not criminals. You should forego any rights, privileges if you are in prison - taking away freedom does not deter criminals and most prisons are better equipped in this country than children's homes! The money saved from keeping a criminal in jail for a year (which amounts to thousands and thousands of pounds) could be spent on children's homes and other deserving causes and we could put all the mass murders to the gallows!

Answer 5

Here we go again - the pitchfork and lynch-mob brigade out in force.

No the death penalty will never be brought back and quite right to.

For a start it doesn't work as a deterrent you only have to look at America for that - so no point there then.

So it simply becomes a punishment. Fine, but according to research from death row in America the inmates there want to die when they realise they will never be free - it is a way out for them - so death is not a punishment (as it is what they want). So no point there either.

Far better to keep them locked away for life with no privileges as this is the punishment they fear the most.

Answer 6

I sincerely hope this country never becomes so retrograde that it re-introduces the death penalty. Although it is true that most people found guilty in a court are, in fact, guilty, there are always the exceptional cases where innocent men, and women, are found to be guilty in spite of their innocence. Had we, still, the death penalty perhaps we would have killed those ladies who were alleged by the Police, CPS and Dr Meadows to have slaughtered their children. Mr. Kizsko would not have enjoyed his one year of freedom following 16 of unlawful imprisonment, prior to his untimely death in his mid fiftties. We have learned from the tragedies of wrongful convictions in the past. Let's not go backwards.

Answer 7

These things are horrific. Unfortunately in countries where the death penalty exists, they still go on. Most people, when they commit a crime don't think about being caught when they do it.

I don't agree with the death penalty, but likewise I think that the current system is way too soft, maybe we should start doing scientific experiments on criminals.

Answer 8

No. The problem is, the death penalty does not stop or reduce crime.

Most states in The United States of America have the death penalty, and from what I can gather, murder rates are still high.

There is a difference between justice and revenge.

Answer 9

Never going to happen not only because of the European human rights act but because the political right brigade would find a way of blocking it I'm in favour of it for certain crimes child killers, cop killers, serial killers but it would have to be a system like USA where they spend up to 20 years in prison before being executed if proof of innocence has not been presented by that time then it is very unlikely to be proven that a Innocent person was executed

Answer 10

nope - because it is not British- whereas enduring increasingly violent crime is. Death penalties would certainly deter much of todays crime. But on the other side of the coin - put yourself in this situation: you or a loved one have been wrongly convicted of a crime (it happens a lot in the world today) and you are going to be killed for it. Ask yourself if you are for the death penalty then?