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

[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.

[amat]

Even if I saw someone murder someone with my own eyes, don't think it's appropriate for government to play the role of executioners.

[OumaFan]

cue Lyle angry rant

I'm not for it but the fact is its really not even a political issue in the U.S., Dem and Republican presidential candidates pretty much have to be for it cause of public support.

[Wayne]

Politicians tend to go with what the peopl want in this respect or completely avoid the issue. Several governors have put a moratorium on the death penalty after the realization they'd allowed innocent men to be put to death. Murder isn't a federal crime unless you kill a federal employee.