Death Penalty: Your Views

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Victim (s) decides what the criminal should get blood money (and a prison sentence) or the death penalty.

I am for it.

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What if the victim is dead because they were murdered?

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Reply 21

Undisclosed 15

Original post by TheTechN1304

I agree with the death penalty, however I believe that it should only be used when there is enough evidence to prove that the accused is guilty. If you wrongly accuse someone and they are sent to prison, they can be released when the truth is revealed, but if you execute someone who you thought was guilty but it turns out they're innocent...you can't bring them back.

You are only sent to prison if there is enough evidence you are guilty though.

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Reply 22

Three Mile Sprint

Original post by superdarklord

What are these certain offences that you think it is permittable in?

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I would rather not say, can't be bothered with the uproar and quote back and forth it would cause.

Reply 23

DannyYYYY

Life imprisonment is worse than the death penalty.

You don't suffer for your crime if you're dead, whereas you waste away in prison for the rest of your life knowing that the choice you made has ruined your only life.

Reply 24

Lord_Mediocre

Original post by Wee.Guy

not against in principle, but our law system is in a bit of a mess that it needs to be sorted before death penalty is implemented.

Our legal system is a mess?? LOL most countries would die for a system as stable and good as ours, given this isn't paradise I don't expect it to get any better.

Reply 25

Undisclosed 15

Original post by DannyYYYY

So why dont we torture people then as that is even worse than going to prison?

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Reply 26

MASTER265

Original post by aoxa

No. Look at the US - the amount of money people spend on appeals ETC costs way more than prison accommodation.

In the UK people have the right to free counsel - so the taxpayer would be footing the bill for the millions of pounds in appeals.

So, basically, you're saying that we should bring back the death penalty to save money, whereas, in reality, you'd be doing the exact opposite. Other than your point on the economy, you have no real reason for bring the death penalty back. The death penalty does not deter people from crime - so even if we did bring it back, you really wouldn't be achieving anything.

If someone is rightly committed after murder or any other sick criminal act they should have their right to appeal revoked. It's only because of the pathetic European court on human rights that has corrupted our justice system. No sick individual should have that right. So money saved on that count. Then there are many cheap methods of execution so money saved again.

You assumed we reintroduce the penalty while a member of the EU but considering the liberal stance of the EU that will not happen. In any realistic world we reintroduce it as an independent nation and so a human right act which does contain the many loopholes our current one does would not exist.

So in my world yes it would be cheaper and yes it would benefit the economy.

Please do not compare the situation to the USA because I believe various factors especially their gun laws contribute to the high rate of crime. All I'm saying is bring the death penalty back, change our justice system and bob your uncle.

will it reduce crime, maybe not but will it increase crime, that we cannot say because no one knows but any rational person would question why.

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Reply 27

All-rounder

Original post by Undisclosed 15

So why dont we torture people then as that is even worse than going to prison.

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•Inhumane
•Takes a long time
•Would probably scar the people we employ to torture them
•Not really cost effective.

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Reply 28

mojojojo101

Never, under any circumstance, for any crime. Ever.

Reply 29

Novascope

Original post by Arithmeticae

It solves nothing, is based on the idea for revenge and it's pretty hard to rehabilitate someone once they're dead.

Capital punishment requires us to be unprincipled, to violate basic moral conviction, to act hypocritically, to indulge vice, to deter empathy with the condemned, to waste money, to disaffect members of society, to likely cause more harm than well-being, and to negligibly if at all decrease crime rate. Against it in all cases.

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THIS.

You've said everything that I wanted to say.

Reply 30

felamaslen

Against it in civil cases; for it in military cases.

Also, long-term prisoners should have the option of being killed if they so choose. I regard whole-life imprisonment as unnecessarily cruel and abject, and would much prefer death if I were in the prisoner's shoes.

Reply 31

DannyYYYY

Original post by Undisclosed 15

So why dont we torture people then as that is even worse than going to prison.

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Why, indeed it is.

Reply 32

Wee.Guy

Original post by The_Mediocre_One

Our legal system is a mess?? LOL most countries would die for a system as stable and good as ours, given this isn't paradise I don't expect it to get any better.

yes it is far better than many, however you cant implement the death penalty when people found guilty of murder are out in less than 10years.

Reply 33

Ceryni

Always against it; I think taking someone's life can never be considered "right".

Original post by superdarklord

So say there's a man who has raped several women and tortured them before sadistically killing them. Does he not deserve to die? What do you think is a suitable punishment?

I must say I agree with this.

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Life imprisonment

Original post by MASTER265

Except this wouldn't work in principle because very few cases ever have perfect, indisputable evidence. By removing someone's right to appeal, you are increasing the chance that someone may be incorrectly punished and executed, which would obviously be wrong. If you are putting in place the most extreme punishment, you will have to put in safeguards to "double-check" the sentence.

Removing the right to appeal would likely be going against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well, as it could lead to a violation of the right to a fair trial.

Reply 34

tazarooni89

Original post by DorianGrayism

2) I doubt it acts as a deterrent. Just need to look at the United States

So you're saying that, if the death penalty were abolished in the US (or the particular states in which it is currently used), the crime rates would be no higher than they are now? What makes you think that?

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Undisclosed 15

Original post by All-rounder

•Inhumane
•Takes a long time
•Would probably scar the people we employ to torture them
•Not really cost effective.

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Points 1,2 and 4 apply to life imprisonment and you support that.

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Reply 36

aoxa

Original post by MASTER265

I'm not assuming that we bring back the death penalty while in the EU - a condition of joining is that the death penalty must be revoked/banned while any such country is within the EU (the Labour government of the '60s revoked the death penalty to get into the EEC)

Also, revoking someones right to appeal on their life is harsh - this is boarding on almost a dictator style way of thinking - taking away their human right to speak freely and try to free themselves should be quashed because they committed a crime. Imagine the outrage anyways, whoever committed this crime probably has a family too - that they wouldn't see their family member again because the right to appeal was lost. Your manner of thinking here is sloppy - taking away a fundamental human right - the right to freedom of speech (as their appeal won't be heard) - will bring in all sorts of condemnation from many democratic countries, allies, and the UN.

I also wasn't comparing the situation to the US - I was using the US as an example. I agree with your point on their gun laws, however, if somebody in this country wished to get an unregistered gun, it wouldn't be too hard - guns are smuggled into the country each year and if you have criminal links, it would be easy enough.

Reply 37

username1258398

I don't blame people for people wanting dead the guy who murdered their brother/raped their daughter/etc (although I do think long-term resentment is unhealthy), but I am firmly against capital punishment. The purpose of the courts should not be to punish criminals, it should be to physically prevent criminals re-offending (with a prison sentence) until they can be rehabilitated.

The death penalty is not a deterrent against crime; it generally costs MORE to kill a criminal than to imprison them until the end of their natural lives; it is irreversible in the case of juries making mistakes (which is always going to happen, the system is never going to be perfect), and it is does nothing to rehabilitate the criminal.

Original post by imtelling

Most people agree with it.

Would you care to provide some statistics to substantiate that claim?

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Reply 38

anosmianAcrimony

Original post by Arithmeticae

Holy **** that was well written. I commend you.

Reply 39

anosmianAcrimony

Original post by tazarooni89

Whether the death penalty is used is decided by the states individually, as you seem to have realised. States that use the death penalty actually have a higher crime rate than those that don't.