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DEBATE: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE USED IN THE UK
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE USED IN THE UK
Prisons in the UK are overcrowded
Our prisons are full and it’s no suprise why, with a catering service and sky TV prison gets more and more like a hotel every day. Prison spending totals £1.5 billion and is to be increased by £1.2 billion, wouldn’t this money be far better spent elsewhere?
If someone near and dear to you was killed, and the killer served a six year life sentence and was released to potentially kill again, would you feel justice was done? Would you feel peace of mind?
You don’t have to look far to find the statistics, murderers kill again, it’s a fact, and not getting rid of these people on religious grounds or otherwise is illogical and immoral to everybody else in the UK. We don’t live in a theocracy, so why is the law affected by religious moral? Although this issue is not directly concerning religion, there is a large majority of agnostic/atheist individuals who think indipendantly and realise that change is inevitable.
UK law is ineffective in general, and the worst instance of this is an individual who kills another not being dealt with accordingly.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE USED IN THE UK
It’s the ultimate deterrent, we can’t stop a murder in progress, but we can prevent it.
Not much explanation needed here, for example Saudi Arabia has a very low murder rate, they use Capital Punishment, doesn’t take a genius…
The USA also uses capital punishment, and has a high murder rate showing that capital punishment is not always an effective deterrent.Similar trends in other countries show inverse correlation between murder rates and capital punishment.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE USED IN THE UK
The logic behind capital punishment is flawed.
As a society we teach people to believe that killing other people is wrong. How can we still maintain this when the state itself sanctions executions. You can’t kill someone to show people that killing people is wrong.