The death penalty! for it or against it???

[porkypara]

The USA still has it but the UK does not.


As there is lots of Brits and Yanks on this site I think this is a good place to debate a controvercial topic.

[kingfrnk]

i dont agree with death at all. u only get one chance at life. well maybe if somebody murders like alot of innocent people then yea. but life only comes once and if u choose to fuk it off by doin something like that then u dont deserve to live.

[BoxingGorilla]

This is a hard question for me. I think it should be in place for completly insane people like Jason Voorhees or Leatherface types.

If the person has a "normal" mind I think they should have a chance to change spiritually and do some light reading.

I do believe in solitary confiment. I think every prisoner should have a small cell of their own and a small garden they can enter a few times a day.

[Gandalf]

This is a hard question for me. I think it should be in place for completly insane people like Jason Voorhees or Leatherface types.

If the person has a "normal" mind I think they should have get chance to change spiritually and do some light reading.

I do believe in solitary confiment. I think every prisoner should have a small cell of their own and a small garden they can enter a few times a day.

I agree with BG really.

Part of me would quite like to hang about 13% of the UK's populace. But the other side of me knows that is a very contentious thing to say.

[ICB]

I wouldn't want to see it i just see a British film called Let Him Have It Chris. And this poor kid the same age as me got hanged for his mate killing a cop, the death penalty would be good on some evil people, but then the flip side is. Many innocent people would be killed for doing nothing. I don't think anyone should be made god and should have the kind of power to decide a person's life IMO.

[Fenster]

I'm against it simply because innocent people have and always will be, wrongly sentenced. What could be worse than getting snuffed out for something you didn't do?

[porkypara]

I have voted for it in the poll on the baces that it is moraly right to put to death murders and other people that have comited awful crimes.

But in reality I would have doubts about it being brought back in to use in Britain because there have been so many miscarages of justice over the last 30 years or so.


So in theory I am for it,But in reality I am against it.

[Wayne]

As administratively inefficient and ineffective as state and federal government are I am against it. But in principal, I am for it.

There are just wayyyyy too many people who get released because of DNA evidence or something else that surfaces and exhonerates convicts for me to be comfortable executing anyone. It might be hell in prison, but at least a potentially innocent person is still alive.

[Trainer Monkey]

No
Anybody ever sat in a holding cell,when they really hadnt done anything wrong?
You think their going to get any nicer just because its a capitol case?
There is no justice,there's just us