if we brought back the death penalty ?(UK)?

Question

who would be willing to carry out the task of taking the criminals life.

i agree that the death penalty should be brought back in certain cases e.g, serial rapists.murderers,child s.ex abusers and in other cases where there is only 100% no doubt of guilt.

but then, do you think you could carry out the task of taking the other persons life,even with all the bad things they had done. and what type of effect do you think it would have on a persons daily life,if they are employed to kill?

i know i have a weird mind!

if doesent matter what uniform the person wears, when they finish their shift,they still have their lives to lead outside work,i think that kind of job would be very hard to do and switch off from

to Mr Sceptic, there are no flipping holes ****, i was asking a question not stating facts

Answer 1

I don't agree with the death penalty, but I might change my mind if one of my family was murdered

Answer 2

A few holes in your arguments.

At present we only convict people where there is no doubt of guilt. We don't have degrees of doubt or guilt. Just yes or no. Are you telling me that there are no innocent people currently in our jails?

Child molesters are scum, don't get me wrong. But, if committing their offence meant the death penalty, then why not get rid of the only witness? Similarly rapists. If you have the death penalty for these people, far more will go on to kill their victims and remove the only witness to the crime.

It is not logical to use the worst possible punishment for any crime less than the worst possible crime - murder.

Sadly, the number of sick individuals demanding their 'right' to see a video of Saddam's execution today make me think that there would be no shortage of potential executioners. Indeed, you could probably auction the post off to the highest bidder.

EDIT

Sorry to contradict your abusive response, but you DID attempt to argue that "the death penalty should be brought back in certain cases e.g, serial rapists.murderers,child s.ex abusers and in other cases where there is only 100% no doubt of guilt."

Answer 3

Do you know, I totally agree with you 100%, and I don't think that you have a weird mind. In such cases as you specify, the death penalty should be brought into force, it is far too easy now for someone to commit murder, knowing full well that they will only go to prison and not have to pay for their dirty deed, with their own life. It would certainly make people think twice. As regards finding an executioner, I don't think the law would find that a problem !

Answer 4

Aside from the questions about ascertaining "100%" guilt, I see no reason why you would want to reintroduce barbarism into a civilized country. What is it that you expect to gain by killing these people? Is it the expense of having them in jail? What is the need to create more of a "death culture" which degrades human life? Revenge? And if you should execute an innocent, as has happened often enough in the U.S., who pays for that life?

And by the way, even in the death-happy U.S., child molestation and rape are not capital crimes in and of themselves.

Answer 5

You don't have a weird mind, it's a good question. I'd like to know if you would do it ?

I wouldn't, and hope that none of my friends or family would. The death penalty simply does not work. It is not the fear of death which deters murderers, it is the fear of getting caught. If murderers knew for certain that they would not get away with it, that they would be caught, tried and imprisoned, that would be a true deterrent.

Answer 6

In answer to your first question- New Jersey’s and New York’s last executioner, Dow Hover, committed suicide. Executioners and wardens in Mississippi and Alabama all attributed their mental and physical health problems to their involvement with lethal injection.

In New Jersey, after the body of the executed inmate is disposed of, the Department of Corrections, according to a 2001 statement, would offer psychological counseling to the entire execution team.

Executions traumatize clergy, jurors, journalists, and others.

Carol Pickett, a minister who witnessed almost 100 executions in Texas, attributed his severe health problems to the stress involved with executions. Whether the person to whom he was ministering was executed was not his decision to make, but his witnessing of the execution haunted him years after he stopped ministering to death row inmates.

Some of the answers talk about the families of murder victims. They should realize that death sentences can be very hard on the families of murder victims. Every time the case is appealed, they have to relive their ordeal in the courts and in the media. Life without parole is sure and swift, and rarely appealed. Many victims’ family members do not support the death penalty for these reasons.

People should read the powerful testimony (New Jersey State Legislature, fall 2006) of murder victims’ family member who had supported the death penalty in theory, but oppose it in practice. Really amazing.

Supporting a common sense approach to how we punish murderers and how we respond to depraved acts does not mean we condone either. The death penalty is error prone. Over 120 people were sentenced to death in the US for crimes they did not commit. Thankfully, evidence of their innocence was found before they were killed in our name. In most of these cases DNA was not available. Science cannot keep us from making dreadful and irreversible mistakes. The death penalty costs way more than sentences of life without parole and is not a deterrent. Is it worth it for the tiny number of cases where DNA makes us 100% sure that the right person has been charged?

Answer 7

It must never be brought back, for the following reasons:
1) It's not an effective deterrent;
2) there's far too much room for mistakes, even with DNA evidence (which could be incorrectly handled or deliberately tampered with);
3) it teaches people that violence and killing are the way to solve problems and change society; and
4) two wrongs don't make a right.

Answer 8

Perhaps a relative or friend?
If someone raped one of my children, i would definately press the button (so to speak).
Surely the worst of crimminals( no doubt of being guilty), should be given the death penalty, as many crimminals are being housed in prisons and released early with 'good behaviour'...
It disgusts me, that the tax payers pay to keep such crimminals in prison, with some sort of life, after ruining other peoples lives.

Answer 9

Albert Pierrepoint, resigned as the 3rd generation of pierrpoints as the Official Executioner of Great Britain and Ireland. hanging in 1956. I dont know if there is a current Executioner, I would be happy to do it, the quickest Albert hanged someone was just 7 seconds !!!!

Answer 10

There is nothing that justifies taking someone else's life. Nothing. If we move to a retributive society then we are on a slippery slope to accepting vigilantisim and ultimately anarchy. No matter how bad the worst, it is far more powerful to deny an individuals liberty until they die of natural causes. Death a sweet release? ...the rest of your life in gaol - living hell.