We need capital punishment back.

hence why i quoted him with Ian hislop :L

We don't. It's the easy way out.

I'm intrigued....if it's the "easy way out" why do pretty much all death row inmates appeal a million times knowing that at best they'll get it commuted to life in prison?

Quite a few do attempt (and succeed) to kill themselves. There was an American found guilty of murder (whose name escapes me) who asked for the death penalty.

The vast majority neither kill themselves nor actively ask for the death penalty. A few cases out of thousands does not make a rule.

Again, entertain my questions, if it is the "easy way out" would you perhaps support torturing prisoners instead? I mean if it's not harsh enough....

No. I simply do not believe capital punishment is the right answer. It's the easy way out and hypocritical. Why is it right for me not to kill someone, yet the state can take my life if I kill someone?

If an animal is sick and we cant afford the vet bills, its get put down. Time to apply the same logic to these terrible people.

But there is no way of being 100% sure of whether the convicted person actually did the crime. This is one of my qualms with capital punishment.

I was against it until very recently for many of the same reasons most people oppose it. But it is time for a serious rethink in the UK. The justice system as well all know is soft on crime, and 30 years for murder is not enough.

These people are sick individuals. If an animal is sick and we cant afford the vet bills, its get put down. Time to apply the same logic to these terrible people.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1584745_stockport-headless-body-trial-anthony-and-joseph-jenkins-jailed-for-life-for-murder-of-john-grainger

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9431941/Kiaran-Stapleton-jailed-for-30-years-for-murdering-student.html

I am not in favour of it because I think it will deter people from committing terrible crimes, because it wont. I am not in favour of it because it I believe in the eye for and eye theory. I am looking at this from the economics of the situation.

If capital punishment can be brought back. It could be introduced in a manner that is quick, and cost efficient to the British tax payer. No need for mutlipul costly appeals as one is enough, and only a short stay on death row. Thus saving money on the cost of a whole life sentence. Humane methods could also be used such as Nitrogen asphyxiation.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

if economics is your main concern then we most certainly do not need capital punishment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine

Read the entire essay if you can. If not, read this wiki page.

This should quiet those in support of capital punishment.

A very interesting article that raises points that I have never heard be considered.

Unfortunately, for you I think, it does not change my viewpoint on the death penalty.



I found the point about premediated murders especially interesting. Thank you for providing that link.

I would argue that living and suffering is harder than a quick death anyway.

But no, we are past the Dark Ages, I thought we had transcended that stage of brutality and butchery centuries ago. No need to revive it now.