However, it would be a different prison system to the one we have which is no deterrent. Prisoners would be in solitary confinement with only a bed, a toilet and a wet room type shower. All meals would be some gruel with supplements for dietary needs. Drink would be only water. No socialising. No outside areas. No visitors. No post. Only books for entertainment – no TV.
I think this would be a deterrent and would also wipe out drug dealing in prisons.
Isn't the best deterrent teaching people things that will enable them to get what they want legally? (This does not include force-feeding them at school with nonsense about past battles of long dead kings or anything else that won't help them get a start in life.)
Put it this way then. If those three scum that got life yesterday had gone to the gallows, Would it deter other scum of their ilk? I think yes.
And yet in countries where the death penalty is available, such crimes still happen. I'm not convinced it does work as a deterrent. I'm not sure any sentence does, as I don't think people in these situations consider the consequences of their actions, either for the victim or for themselves.
And yet in countries where the death penalty is available, such crimes still happen. I'm not convinced it does work as a deterrent. I'm not sure any sentence does, as I don't think people in these situations consider the consequences of there actions, either for the victim or for themselves.
Fair comment, although we have no way of knowing if these crimes happen to a lesser or greater degree than if there were no death penalty. So we do not know to what extent the deterrent works.
If it was a deterrant there would be no murders in countries that have the death penalty.
That's not really true. It's not enough to have a death penalty, you also have to have a capable police force and judiciary system competent enough to detect crime, identify the offenders and bring them to justice.
Having one without the other is not going to deter people.
Definately castration for rapists and paedophiles. Also bring back the Short Sharp Shock for thugs with no pathetic do-gooders being allowed to interfere. As for sentencing, life should mean life as it does in the USA.
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My contribution was pretty much what was said above.
They could STARE you to death like this: :eek::eek::eek::eek:
Then what?
yes it did - they couldn't do it again
However, it would be a different prison system to the one we have which is no deterrent. Prisoners would be in solitary confinement with only a bed, a toilet and a wet room type shower. All meals would be some gruel with supplements for dietary needs. Drink would be only water. No socialising. No outside areas. No visitors. No post. Only books for entertainment – no TV.
I think this would be a deterrent and would also wipe out drug dealing in prisons.
Put it this way then. If those three scum that got life yesterday had gone to the gallows, Would it deter other scum of their ilk? I think yes.
and what better deterrant = if you kill people you die and your life is gone.
Fair comment, although we have no way of knowing if these crimes happen to a lesser or greater degree than if there were no death penalty. So we do not know to what extent the deterrent works.
If it was a deterrant there would be no murders in countries that have the death penalty.
That's not really true. It's not enough to have a death penalty, you also have to have a capable police force and judiciary system competent enough to detect crime, identify the offenders and bring them to justice.
Having one without the other is not going to deter people.