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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.
Our prisons are full granted, but that does not mean we should kill every tom, Dick and harry to clear up our over-crowed prisons. This is wrong. The number of people punished by capital punishment each year has never and would never justify any means of ‘reducing the over crowding’.
The money arguement you use is not viable, simply because to execute someone costs alot more then keeping someone in prison. In the USA people are on deathrow for up to 20 years, appeals run into the millions there, outwieghing even keeping them imprisioned even for LIFE.
Yes murderers do offend, but not all, nearly half do, but over half do not, and they feel genuine guilt and forgiveness.
Also it is foolish to assume every family would want someone killed, the feeble "Eye for an EYE" arguement coming in to play here.
I have looked at it from an entierly unmoral and reglious viewpoint as most people these days do. Capital punishment can not be justifed in todays moder society. Innocent people would be at threat. And the arguement kill one innocent to catch 10 guilty is pathetic.
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.
