What are you views on the Death Sentance? Do you think It should be legal in the U.K? Post below your views.

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Plainly - yes.

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Yeah It Should Be, However Its Unfair On Those Wrongly Convicted Of A Crime.

the death sentance should not be allowed as people have been convicted of crimes they havent commited and you have twisted cops in the police force who can get you done for nothin

It would be nice if people could give their reasoning behind their views.

I for one, think that Captital Punishment (the death sentance) should be brought back into the UK.

The following information I have sourced from the internet.

The rates for unlawful killings in Britain have more than doubled since abolition of capital punishment in 1964 from 0.68 per 100,000 of the population to 1 .42 per 100,000. Home Office figures show around unlawful killings 300 in 1964, which rose to 565 in 1994 and 833 in 2004. The principal methods of homicide were fights involving fists and feet, poisoning, strangling, firearms and cutting by glass or a broken bottle. 72% of the victims were male with young men being most at risk. Convictions for the actual crime of murder (as against manslaughter and other unlawful killings) have been rising inexorably. Between 1900 and 1965 they ran at an average of 29 per year. There were 57 in 1965 – the first year of abolition. Ten years later the total for the year was 107 which rose to 173 by 1985 and 214 in 1995. The figure for 2005 is 280.

There have been 71 murders committed by people who have been released after serving "life sentences" in the period between 1965 and 1998 according to Home Office statistics.

Some 6,300 people are currently serving sentences of “life in prison” for murder.

Stabbings have increased dramatically as have the kicking and beating to death of people who have done something as minor as arguing with someone or jostling them in a crowd, i.e. vicious and virtually motiveless killings.

So, to sum up my reasons why I think the death penaly should be re-introduced.

Capital punishment permanently removes the worst criminals from society and should prove much cheaper and safer for the rest of us than long term or permanent incarceration. It is self evident that dead criminals cannot commit any further crimes, either within prison or after escaping or being released from it.

Money is not an inexhaustible commodity and the state may very well better spend our (limited) resources on the old, the young and the sick etc., rather than on the long term imprisonment of murderers, rapists, etc.

Execution is a very real punishment rather than some form of "rehabilitative" treatment, the criminal is made to suffer in proportion to the offence. Although whether there is a place in a modern society for the old fashioned principal of "an eye for an eye", is a matter of personal opinion. Retribution is seen by many as an acceptable reason for the death penalty.

I would say that the death penalty is a deterrent, but only where execution is an absolute certainty.

But, I think that if it is brought back, then you should make it where you spen a year in prison first. The reason I say this, is because if you are reeally innocent, or it was self defence, etc, it gives your defence time to make your case, so you can go to appeal.

I also think that the death sentance should be given - regardless of age or sex. If you are 15, and you murder someone, then you should receive the ultimate sentance for your crime.

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Stuart


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I totally agree with that cuddlyewok (and I'm too lazy to type something like that myself )

Did you know that Treason and Piracy (being a pirate) carried the death penalty in the U.K. up until 1998?

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1998!?
Wow I thought it would of been like 200 years ago!

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I know, but it would never have happened. No judge would have sentenced someone to death for being a pirate. Maybe for treason, but I can't imagine that happening really either...

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The death penelty should be in U.K
A life for a Life(thats wat i say)


but as Joey said its not fair on people that didnt do wat they were convicted for

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i think that 'life' as in the sentance of time should be LIFE not 25 years!

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if you ask me you should torture them, keep em in a cell for 5 years and then kill em.

That'll learn em

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