A perfect example of a crime that should attract the death penalty.

And only those who are 100% guilty, should be subject to it.

The ECHR regards life without possibility of parole as barbaric also.

all capital punishments are barbaric. i think that the 'eye for an eye' mentality is archaic, and hypocritical. So the man may have killed this young woman, but would that justify gassing or electrocuting him?

And as Aphotic Cosmos said, the death penalty does not act as a deterrant. we can't have a reason for capital punishment as 'the prisons are at full capacity'. It's less than one year sentences etc that are the real problem with prison crowdedness.

why aren't i surprised that your source is from the daily mail?

And how are you going to prove this? Our legal system works on reasonable doubt, because there is no such thing as 100% proof or 100% guilty. This is why we do not execute criminals anymore. That and becoming, one hopes, a slightly more civillised society...

except that britain has become infinitely more uncivilised since it was abolished in 1955 for commoners. as can been seen here with the dramatic increase in crime:








house of commons source:


http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2043310/Jia-Ashton-latest-Despicable-dropout-admits-battering-Thorntons-executive-death.html

That fat lump of excrement should swing ,sounds like he jacked off on her dead body as well the freak.

If the death penalty was brought back we would have a special homicide act which would stipulate which murders would qualify for it. Then the judge would apply the law. Instead I propose a system similar to the US where there is a death penalty hearing involving a jury after a guilty plea. Where the jury decides on either life imprisonment , natural life imprisonment or death. Although I wouldn't have a death row, one appeal within 5 years where everything including forensic evidence, the trial etc etc done by a different police force,a special independent home office unit that investigates the evidence and police performance in the investigation , decided by a different judge If it fails he/she dead within a week.

But revenge isn't the only motivation,it is not for me. I am hugely pro life and I believe anyone who takes a life in such a horrific way and the defiles the corpse should lose theirs because they have shown society they don't value other peoples lives like we all should. And the death penalty can save lives, studies on states in the US that brought back the death penalty in the seventies suggest that for certain types of murders it does have a deterrent effect. But you won't find that study quoted by amnesty and by extension the BBC or the guardian. A professor from cambridge university quoted this study when arguing with someone saying the death penalty is not a deterrent.

Any first-degree murder should be an automatic and non-negotiable life sentence with no possibility of parole or early release. Second-degree murder and rape should be an automatic and non-negotiable 30-year sentence with no possibility of early release, but possibility for parole (second-degree murder being driven by passion rather than pre-meditation).

Same with war crimes, crime against humanity, crimes against peace, etc.

Justice is about sending a message, but that message must also occupy the moral high ground. State-sanctioned murder does not do that.

they are miserable places to be... i don't think anyone who has seen a prison would say it isn't an awful place to be.

This.
We should be really tough on crime, but murdering people is not the answer.

If for no other reason than that eventually our justice system will make a mistake, and then an innocent man will be put to death.
Life meaning life, and they should work an 8-10 hour day every day except weekends like the rest of us.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2043310/Jia-Ashton-latest-Despicable-dropout-admits-battering-Thorntons-executive-death.html

That fat lump of excrement should swing ,sounds like he jacked off on her dead body as well the freak.

If the death penalty was brought back we would have a special homicide act which would stipulate which murders would qualify for it. Then the judge would apply the law. Instead I propose a system similar to the US where there is a death penalty hearing involving a jury after a guilty plea. Where the jury decides on either life imprisonment , natural life imprisonment or death. Although I wouldn't have a death row, one appeal within 5 years where everything including forensic evidence, the trial etc etc done by a different police force,a special independent home office unit that investigates the evidence and police performance in the investigation , decided by a different judge If it fails he/she dead within a week.

For some people, they don't care whether they get a life sentence or not, as long as they get the person killed.

E.g. if a person really, really wanted to kill Person A, and if it meant going to prison for it - well, it's not an effective deterrent, is it?

When someone wants to kill someone, they will kill someone regardless of the consequences.

And how are you going to prove this? Our legal system works on reasonable doubt, because there is no such thing as 100% proof or 100% guilty. This is why we do not execute criminals anymore. That and becoming, one hopes, a slightly more civillised society...