I am adamandtly against the death penalty, just as I am adamantly against abortion, human life is not ours to take in my opinion.

I don't think the death penalty has any place in a modern 21st century nation.

Of course I'd love to see the Ian Huntley's of this world hung, drawn and quartered for his child killings but let's be honest here, child killers amount to about 0.1% of all criminals.

If the death penalty was brought in many people whose crimes wern't on that magnitude would likely die too, along with the innocent.

I also cannot see how murdering a murderer makes anything right. If the taking of a human life is wrong (and it is) then a system of vengeful retaliation cannot be right surely?

Also what constitutes murder? To me someone who chooses to have their unborn but still living child scraped out of their uterus and thrown into a bin because they don't want the hassle of looking after it is as guilty of murder as anyone who kills somebody who is actually born.