Death Sentence, Should It Come Back?

[piggynose]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50987823
Btw i hope this is the right link.

[david small]

Yes.

[youngmafbog]

For this case not. As I opined in my OP a couple down 30 years is not enough Life and the cheeswire more like it.

However where there is multiple murder especially children or the elderly then string them up. Take a life forfeit your own.

[hereIam]

YES, but it won't of course. I have always maintained that child murderers should die.

[woofgang]

the problem as I see it is that you then have a situation where two people both do the same horrible thing. One is less smart than the other so for them there is the 100% proof required for the death penalty...the other one is smarter and the proof is less than 100% so they end up in jail.

[sandyRoe]

Your links opens on the news of a rapist. Death sentence for him, really?
What about those who kill police officers, children, their spouses, or stab to death other young people in fights over drug dealing territory?
Society is more civilised than the killers.

[eve1974]

no

[TonyV]

woofgang don't think it's how smart or stupid person in the dock is, more likely how good CPS team or defence team is.

[saintpeter48]

If not the death penalty, why can't murderers etc, who have been found guilty, be given a life sentence which really means life, not out in 10 years!

[Lie-in King]

No.

[Deskdiary]

It is tempting when faced with a crime like this, when somebody is so inherently evil, when you know he is completely beyond rehabilitation, to say Yes...but ultimately I still come down on the side of No.

Although, I would very happily see full life terms with zero possibility of parole, and the sentence being served in uncomfortable conditions (this seems worse than death to me).

Merely as a 'by the way', I see it didn't take long on this thread for that hoary old chestnut of "state-sanctioned murder" to be trotted out - a ridiculous phrase if ever there was one.

[piggynose]

DD are you referring to a comment at 14.49?

[retrocop]

Yes.

[Theland]

Castration maybe?

[Apc2604]

Who would be willing to take a life as part of their job? Only a certain type of person surely?

[woofgang]

TonyV I was talking about the existence or lack of evidence.

[TonyV]

oke doke woofgang

[Ringlet]

No

[andres]

Definitely! With all the forensic tests and evidence these days the results are usually conclusive. In this instance would anyone say that he is innocent? For the rest of his life at enormous expense he will be fed,housed,clothed probably have access to a computer and educational facilities. To what avail? What is the point of nourishing such an evil creature?In a short time all our prisons will be full to overflowing and as I have said before as the prisoners grow older they will possibly contract various illnesses and need hospital treatment. Or all the prisons will be full of geriatrics using zimmer frames . A lethal injection would quickly end their miserable lives. If they take a life then they should forfeit their own.

[naomi24]

Yes. We put dangerous dogs down.

[THECORBYLOON]

"Definitely! With all the forensic tests and evidence these days the results are usually conclusive."

"Usually" means "not always" so what would happen in those instances?