Think smartass, they are mostly suicide attackers. SUICIDE. That means they die anyway.

They put their horrible ideology in front of their lives. Death is trivial to them.

Reply 5

Retired_Messiah

Given that a lot of them kill themselves anyway or are shot at the scene I don't think it'd actually change our judicial process much.

Reply 6

catlotta

personally, i think not due to the unclear definition of terrorism and how the law would cross with murder and homicide.

Reply 7

username3025040

They tend to die in their own attacks tho

Reply 8

pereira325

Wouldn't work because they usually don't mind dying.

Reply 9

TheJamesHill

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi

Reply 10

_gcx

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Calm down. Deep breaths. Think about what you're saying.

It is irrational to use death as a punishment. If they do not have the right to take the lives of others, then we do not have the right to take their life.

The death penalty has not been demonstrated to be a deterrent.

Reply 11

markova21

Margaret Thatcher wanted to reintroduce it for the IRA. Don't have a problem with it tbh. Something needs to be done. I also don't have a problem with the argument that they are prepared to die so it won't be a deterrent either. No it won't deter them. It will however save hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on each one. Plus the danger of them radicalising others while in prison will be removed. But it would have to be done properly. It should only be implemented when there is absolutely not one shred of doubt that the individual was guilty. Look at the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six as examples of the authorities not only getting it wrong, but deliberately fabricating evidence to convict someone, anyone for the bombings. Each individual case would need the utmost scrutiny at every stage of the process. However, appeals and counter appeals that take 20 years would be completely counter productive. It would need to be incredibly efficient.

No ffs.

Original post by 999tigger

Duh how would that deter suicide bombers and attackers?

The attackers today were caught alive.

Death penalty would probably be the worst thing these Islamic attackers could have.

Reply 14

izpenguin

No it would be a rubbish deterrent.
Executed terrorists would be seen as martyrs, encouraging further terrorism.
And Islamic terrorists believe they will go to paradise if they die for their beliefs. They would like to be executed.

Reply 15

Huai

Original post by pereira325

Wouldn't work because they usually don't mind dying.

Maybe they'll think they won't reach "Paradise" if they got the death penalty from a Christian state.

Reply 16

999tigger

Original post by Huai

The attackers today were caught alive.

Death penalty would probably be the worst thing these Islamic attackers could have.

The three suspected attackers were shot dead by police within eight minutes of the first incident report.

The death penalty would make them martyrs.

Reply 17

pereira325

Original post by Huai

Maybe they'll think they won't reach "Paradise" if they got the death penalty from a Christian state.

Nah like izpenguin said they'd think they are dying a martyr's death. Where do martyr's go? Paradise.

Reply 18

nulli tertius

Original post by markova21

Margaret Thatcher wanted to reintroduce it for the IRA.

In 1983 Margaret Thatcher had a majority of 144. Anything she seriously wished to introduce, she could have done so.

Reply 19

uberteknik

Original post by Ranuno

I think that would be a good deterrent for Islamic terrorists.

No.

The ideology of the terrorists is to die in the name of Islam and go to paradise as a martyr. They want to die. They welcome death.

The death penalty gives them a licence to commit heinous crimes secure in the knowledge that they will soon be in paradise. The global publicity surrounding the UK bringing back the death penalty, 'For Muslims Only', is exactly the propaganda their organisations thrive on. We would be handing that to them on a plate.

I also do not agree that it is cheaper to kill than to keep them incarcerated. The legal challenges alone will run to many many times the lifetime prison costs.

Finally, the death penalty will give terrorists the justification to call us hypocrites for claiming we love and respect life, but have no problem murdering their brethren.

Prison, no access to Islam or any religious material or media, publications or books whatsoever, access only to prison warders and no other inmates, basic food and water, forced feeding if they go on hunger strike.

Keeping them alive in isolation for a long as possible is their hell.