Death penalty is not the answer, to me that's an easy way out

I say make them serve their life sentence in a foreign prison such as Thailand.

Damp cold cells with double the people they are designed for,
Toilets that back fill flooding the cells with poo,
Never getting proper meals and when you do get food it squirts out quicker than it went in,
Endless violence.

Foreign prisons are the best place for them, uk prisons are to much of a holiday camp

 

The death penalty is to easy , look at the cowards the commit a lot of murders ,they do there crime then top themselves , no doubt because they can't live with what they have done or won't be able to handle the consequences of their actions

Far better would be to do the same as the guy in the movie seven

The one tied to the bed with the magic trees

 

I think certain cases the death penalty is or should have been used, Ian Huntley, Sutcliff, Braidy etc.

 

In reply to those who think capital punishment is "an easy way out", who exactly is getting the easy way out?
The criminal? Let's not lose sight of the fact that, for the most part, murderers are not looking for some kind of benign release. The loss of their life is without doubt a punishment, not a reward. And it's a guaranteed solution to re-offending.
If not the criminal, is it society being freed from the onerous task of caring for the miscreant? Perhaps. But the number of literal open and shut cases where you could safely employ the death panalty are few and far between, so you wouldn't be killing many scumbags anyway.

To quote Norman Tebbit from the Telegraph article referred to earlier -

"The arguments against capital punishment for murder have always been thin. One centres on the human rights theory which demands that the state should never take life. That would make nonsense of the concept of an armed police officer threatening an armed criminal at all. Another is that the threat of death, as when an armed officer calls on an armed criminal to drop his weapon under pain of death, has no effect.

The hard fact is, as violent criminals know perfectly well, a credible threat that a man will lose his life unless he complies with a demand usually results in obedience."

 

Obviously and unfortunately the torture of convicted criminals is never gonna happen
So the death penalty will have to suffice
As long as they are kept on death row and are allowed to appeal and get refused half a dozen times ( give em a bit of hope ) and then eventually get what they deserve

 

Indisputable murder ie with many witnesses should = DP. Pure evil to murder people in cold blood ... only the smallest minority would consider it.



TX.

 

after watching channel 4 dispatch's ages ago when they interviewed a potential kid fid , the interviewer asked him what is your fantasy,
to do a sidney cook he replied (remember that kid from the fairgroung raped and killed in a caravan)
but you would get 15years min replied the interviewer
and replied the perv (almost like he considered it good value)
what about if the death penalty was brought back for such crimes asked the interviewer
HELL NO REPLIED THE PERV wouldnt do it
this program only served to prove that the meer threat of death penalty would make them think twice, shame mr cameron and cronies grow some nads and bring back the death penalty, if the need someone for the job, i would offer my services with just 2 conditions , immunity, and 3 bullets per pedo ,knee nads chest in that order

 

And if we need further proof of how untrustworthy the police are, maybe even dishonest....

http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/20...ss-misconduct/

 

Death penalty doesn't work. What is needed is a Running Man game show! Seriously, hard labour camp or shipped to an off shore prison facility like an converted oil rig or oil tanker that does not come under the jurisdiction of any Human Rights convention.

 

No to the death penalty.

dl

 

AS much as the death penalty comes to mind, in the endi its too quick and as said above, many of these choose to cap themsleves..

I do beleive that in the likes of this case in Wales, where the cops know they have there man, lie detector tests and forms of torture should be used to get the information that may well save the victims life.
As for the punishment, small room, 500watt light on 24 hrs a day, no bed, no clothes nothing, completley self harm free, Life sentence.. Let them live with themselves.

 

Wow. This paragraph contains so many false assertions that are so unfortunately common. Lets begin.

1. You don't agree. Fine. There are many on here who agree with you.
2. DP does not deter crime. Really? Your evidence for that? A starter in evidence that the opposite is true is at http://burningourmoney.blogspot.co.u...justice-5.html
3. Harsher prison sentences do not deter crime. Really? Your evidence for that? How about http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...udy-shows.html
4. Look at the US - see point 2
5. US has highest prison population per capita in the world - this figure is THE most common fallacy of all, and is why I am taking you to task on this. The figure is meaningless. The reason is that without knowing how much crime is committed, it is unbelievably misleading. If there is more crime, then you would expect more people to be in prison. If you want to gauge the rate of imprisonment, you need to see the number of prisoners/1000 crimes committed. High numbers would indicate harsh sentencing, low numbers show laid back sentencing. The UK has one of the lower prisoner/crimes committed rations in Europe. http://www.civitas.org.uk/data/prisonPopEU2007.htm There is good inverse correlation between the imprisonment rate and the crime rate. The US crime rate is dropping BECAUSE the imprisonment rate is high. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...tes.svg&page=1 Locked up scumbags cant commit crimes, nor can dead ones

 

Source? Beeb says (time stamped 19:51 tonight):

 

Whatever, you obviously have a lot of time on your hands. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita
Your argument still doesn't make me want the UK to have the death penalty.
There's probably another reason for the US having so many prisoners in the clink.... They make quite a lot of money from them, but that's another story.

 

this shows that Romania imprisons more people and has a lower rate of crime than Sweden

wierd because Romania is a crime ridden failed state and Sweden on the other hand one of the safest places in the world to live

 

The homicide rate in the US is much higher than here. It's even higher than it is here if you exclude all the gun homicides in the US, which make up 60% of the homicide rate.

So... the death penalty is an effective deterrent, is it?

 

Just to correct you there, he has only been arrested on suspicion of murder so let's not hang anyone just yet ;-)

 

Is that based of pure numbers or percentage of the population? Big difference.

 

Percentage of the population.

 

I will post the stats with links tomorrow. On my phone just now.

 

I'm afraid it's Mr Tebbits arguments that are 'a bit thin'.

His 'apples and oranges' comparison of the death penalty vs armed police shooting someone in self-defense or in protecting the lives of the public, is laughable. I don't know anyone that would be opposed to the police shooting someone in those circumstances. It's a very different to the state, in cold blood, executing someone.

Also he makes a completely daft point about how 'a credible threat' results in compliance of a criminal. Well once again, at the moment a crime may be taking place that could well be true, but as a deterrent? If it was then murder rates (per capita) in the US wouldn't be 8 times higher than they are here.

Oh and btw, several people have mention that they wish the state could torture criminals, if that's your view I suggest you move somewhere where torture a regular occurrence. I've read some awful things on this site, but wanting the state to torture people, well that a whole new level of idiocy

 

Even if this is true (and I don't really doubt that it is), you have to wonder how meaningful a statistic it is to bring up in this debate, if you bear in mind that:
- the death penalty doesn't apply universally across the US,
- in those US States where it does apply, it doesn't apply universally for all crimes of murder,
- in a great number of those States where it does apply, very few and in some cases no executions at all have actually been carried out for years or even decades, because of the constant appeals, legal wranglings and so on,
- in the whole of the US, capital and non-capital States alike, the next most likely sentence to be handed down (when the death penalty isn't or can't be) is life in prison, in a country where life in very many cases really does mean life or close to it. You might just as easily argue then that life in prison is no more a deterrent against murder than the death penalty, if you're going to hold up US murder stats as evidence for or against.

 

They're not, they're only around 3 times higher

As stated in my previous post though, there are a fair few reasons to be wary of drawing too much inference from that comparison, regardless of how much higher or lower the rates are.

 

No point even talking about the death penalty, it will never ever happen in this namby pamby country. We have far to many PC **** heads without *****. It f*cking annoys me when soft tw*ts think a kiddie fiddler should just go to prison, No, they should be exterminated.

 

Martin, remember our 'discussion' on human rights? I am now a convert. I understand where you were coming from now.

 

The actual numbers...


Show that there is absolutely no correlation whatsoever between murder rate and the abolition of the DP in fact murder rate were virtually unchanged for the decade pre and post abolition.

Also murder rates are currently at a 30 year low

 

Can you point to any empirical evidence from the US that supports the notion the that the death penalty is a deterrent?

 

Agreed. Think of Stefan Kiszko the poor ba$tard, locked up for 16 years for a crime he never committed.

 

I wasn't trying to in either of my earlier posts, and I won't try to now
What I was trying to do was point out that you can't easily use a comparison of US to UK murder stats to either support or undermine that notion.

 

OK fair enough

Ignore the UK and just look at the US. The evidence in completely stacked against the DP as a deterrent