Yes, Capital Punishment should be bought back to the UK - there are far to many crime’s being committed, that i feel should be dealt with by Capital Punishment & not just a slap on the hand & told not to do it again - which is happening in our courts today…….

No.

We have seen enough cases of miscarriage of justice to know that the police are capable of framing people to get a result when they are under pressure and juries are sometimes swayed by their emotions rather than the evidence.

The correct answer to satisfy all sides is that a life sentence must mean life in prison - no days out at the cinema; no release on “compassionate” grounds, just stay there until dead UNLESS new evidence leads to the verdict being overturned.

I have to answer this question with a firm “No”.

The most awful problem is the virtual certainty that an innocent person will eventually be executed. Many point to DNA evidence as a solution to this, but in many cases it will not be useful or conclusive. For example, in a domestic murder, what good is it to say the murderers’ DNA is at the scene? Of course it is, they live there!

We also need to consider the effect on the murderers’ family and relatives, they are innocent and will suffer the loss of a loved one. Should these relatives suffer for something they didn’t do?

The death penalty has little impact on the overall crime rate as it will, firstly, only apply for a minority of offences and secondly it will not always be used.

The death penalty is usually proceeded with a spell in prison on a “Death Row”, this can last for years in some cases so the argument based on reduced costs to the taxpayer is less powerful than you would think.

No because some of the worst of the worst, like Harold Shipman or Fred West kill themselves in prison as a way of escaping from their troubled states of mind and feelings of guilt. Why help them to escape from a lifetime of guilt?

We are not animals that run in a pack, but if we were then people like. Steve Wrght would have been spotted very early. There would have been no drama involved. He would have been driven out of the pack to die or he would have been challenged earlier and become sub serviant and found his role in society or died.
We are not wolves but monkeys,and we have been given the gift of reason We have learned to live in tribes it works for us as does the pack of wolves works for them
In the world of the wolf and the world of the monkey there is no hatred If you cant fit in you die

The level of violence in this country has increased unabated since the final abolition of the death penalty for murder in 1965. The life term that replaced it proved to be a political sleight of hand, because in fact “life” didn’t mean more than 10 or 11 years for a “standard” murder. The result was that murder was massively downgraded as an offence - you could serve a longer term for importing cocaine or robbing a bank, and successive governments connived at a comprehensive degradation of standards of behaviour, culminating in the last ten years, which have been utterly disastrous in terms of law and order.

Unless radical steps are taken to introduce a serious deterrent element to sentencing for violent offences (including, for example, a mandatory term of, say, 25 years imprisonment for murder) I think it is absolutely inevitable that capital punishment will be reintroduced in this country within the next ten or twenty years.

YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in cases where there is absolutely certainty (confession/video/witnesses) then surely we must bring back capital punishment as a deterrent.since liberal attitudes have prevailed over last few decades so has violent crime increased.its a slippery slope otherwise, with the situation only getting worse.

yes. the death penalty should be brought backimmediatly. a referendum would support it. but this yellow-bellied government would not approve.

yes. i believe in certain EXCEPTIONAL cases there should be capital Punishment. example if that it can be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt e.g. a confession, a video confirming the persons identity or forensic evidence proving that this person is guilty of everything he/she is charged with then i believe that there is grounds for capital Punishment

yes I THINK PEOPLE ARE FOR GETTING THAT NOW`A DAYS WE HAVE THINGS LIKE DandA AND WE ARE A LOT MORE HIGH TEC THAN THE 1940`S 50`S 60`S EYE 4 AN EYE. WHY SHULD WE AS TAX PAYERS PAY TO KEEP THESE PEOPLE ALIVE WARM AND FED. IF YOU`R DOG KILED A HUMAN BEING IT WOULD BE PUT DOWN . THESE PEOPLE ARE NO MORE THAN ANIMALS THEM SELFS WHY SHOULD WE TREAT THEM ANY DIFFERENT.

of course we should have the death penalty. you may argue about the offenders’ rights, but as soon as u commit a crime like killing someone, u have bypassed THEIR rights and so u should also have none. Human rights are just a thing that lawers can use to get their clients off scot-free. i also believe that the punishment should be made worse by having Death Row, where offenders will stay for years knowing they will die and will have to live with it. if they take suicide, then thats one less lethal injection to use. it would also ease the strain on our overcrouded prisons. Thank you

This debate could go on for ever, questions of whether the right person is executed etc, however in cases where this 100% certainty, DNA, unquestionable video evidence etc, then yes bring back the deterrent of losing your life. In cases of doubt, then “life means life” is the laternative. At present it seems to Me, that you’d have to bribe a judge to get a custodial sentance, all tarrifs should be increased across the board, and magistrates, judges etc, should be advised by Government to use maximums not minimums, there’s little point in blaming police, if they are making the arrests but have no say over sentancing.

I think he should because if he has the right to take them 5 girls life then he should be punished by death and let him feel the pain them girl did make his family sufur just like those girls family had to