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Do you Think The Death Penalty Should be back in the UK
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What do you think and why?
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Why only children and police? Any cold-blooded murder is the same in my eyes.
Yes, was just thinking that after I'd posted. Okay any cold-blooded murder trhen bu of course not self-defence murdewrs or after marital abuse etc.
You mean killers who are or were cops?:rolleyes:
That should keep the hangman busy.:D
If you were to ask me if, in the most extreme cases (such as cold-blooded murder supported by overwhelmingly compelling evidence and not contested by the defendant) an option could be offered of euthanasia, and on the basis of dispensing with redundant notions of 'punishment' or even 'revenge' given the hardly atonable severity of the crimes concerned, the answer would be different.
Why? The government can't bring it back in any case. I certainly don't think they should.
whether somebody "deserves to live" and whether we would be right to take that life are two completely different arguments for me
No it wouldn't.
Having someone on death row in the States costs a huge amount of money, as of course, you have to factor in all the appeals and everything else that goes with it, including huge number of lawyers and their fees. It can actually be more expensive to have someone on death row for many years than just locking them away in prison for the rest of their lives.
There are other arguments, such as it not being a deterrent anyway as most major criminals just don't think they are going to get caught, the fact that keeping them in prison gives them time to think about what they have done for the rest of their lives, rather than being executed where it's all over quickly once the execution order is given. Plus of course, as long as we are in the EU it just isn't going to happen anyway.
Why not?