Death penalty - right or wrong? [FIRST THREAD!]

[jackass]

Should UK have it? Do you agree with other countrys having it?

[The Professor]

Personally I think murderers should be sentenced to death, but only after all their time for appeal has expired to minimise the amount of "mistakes" that happen.

You hear of reformed drug addicts, thieves, muggers, fraudsters etc, but never reformed murderers. Probabably because the prison system does nothing to teach them they've done wrong.

[jackass]

Well, its the perfect solution!

• A man kills someone, he goes to jail, gets released later and does it again, if he was put to death, he couldn't do it again.
• It will also eliminate the over-crowding prison problem.

[Redacted]

I totally agree.

If people can murder people, they must be prepared for the worst.

[j]

They should just be left to rot in a prison cell till they die. I mean, come on? Execusion would be a quick painful death and they don't have any more hell to go through do they?

And we're talking about the right subject, right?

[Bomb-Head]

I don't think the UK should have it.

Firstly if the person is in jail, then they have time to appeal and over time, new evidence may come up and prove the person is innocent - they can then be freed and compensated. However if they're dead, nothing can be done and an innocent person has just been killed.

Secondly, if a person HAD done something, I would much rather see them rot away in a cell for the rest of their lives rather than go through a quick 5 minute death. (However in the UK I think you only stay in prison for about 15 years for a 'life' sentence anyway :@)

[Everlong]

An eye for an eye. People should be treated the same way they have treated someone else. Murder = death penalty, Theft = paid out of theives pocket etc.

[Homoevil]

Personally I think murderers should be sentenced to death, but only after all their time for appeal has expired to minimise the amount of "mistakes" that happen.

You hear of reformed drug addicts, thieves, muggers, fraudsters etc, but never reformed murderers. Probabably because the prison system does nothing to teach them they've done wrong.

Most murders are done impulsively and accidently, does a person deserve to die if they did it through sudden rage or abuse of alchol? If a person is remorseful and sorry after they've murdered, surely there's no point in them going to prison as they've already "learned their lesson", execution will just be pointless and barbaric then.

Well, its the perfect solution!

• A man kills someone, he goes to jail, gets released later and does it again, if he was put to death, he couldn't do it again.
• It will also eliminate the over-crowding prison problem.

As said before, a very small amount of murders are purposely carried out and a lot are done on impulse by unlikely people. These people will have a microscopic chance of committing murder again, do they deserve to die?
The prisons aren't overcrowded because of murderers, about 3% is murders. The rest is tax evaders and bad drivers.

I totally agree.

If people can murder people, they must be prepared for the worst.

What about people who get sent to prison for these situations, do they deserve murder?:

• An elderly woman has terminal cancer and is in constant pain. She asks him to end her life so he smothers her.
• A woman is battered by her husband for years, she's too frightened to tell anyone so one day during an argument she loses herself, picks up a blunt object and smashes him around the head.

I can't be bothered to think of anymore.

Why do these people deserve death?

[-:Undertaker:-]

People deserve death if they have killed someone else on purpose, i'd personally have no regrets on flicking the switch to watch the killer fry to death. I have no remorse at all for these evil people.

[-Xiangu-]

I would rather it be a slow and painful death