The Death Penalty - For or Against?

[BoysInBlue]

Just saw this on CNN - the state of Tennessee has voted to bring back the electric chair, if lethal injection drugs aren't available:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/22/us/tennessee-executions/

What do you reckon lads? Should we bring back the death penalty in this country?

I know people worry about miscarriages of justice and all that, but how many of these terrible murderers that you hear about on the news end up falsely imprisoned?

For every 'Birmingham Six' there are many thousands of 'banged to rights, definitely did it' criminals.

Could we bring it back for the most heinous crimes, where there is literally no doubt at all that they did it?

 

[Walken]

against... and 12 posts tops

 

[SimonB]

For.

Especially for people who bite Chelsea players.

 

[glorydaze]

If the person has plead guilty then yes, otherwise too many variables.

 

[ilikecheese]

Against...make 'em rot in a cell for the rest of their lives...then they can rot in hell.

 

[Muzumbu]

Yes scum like Jon Venables and Thompson should have been hung.

 

[Huyton Layne]

If the person has plead guilty then yes, otherwise too many variables.

I'd agree but innocent people have admitted stuff before today. I want to be for the death penalty but due to you never being 100% I can't. When the technology arrives that can confirm someone's guilt, fry 'em all.

 

[Kurt.]

For..... For peados and rapists

 

[bluejock]

35 posts max

 

[Azzurri]

For in principle, against in practicality.

Paedophiles and murderers should be killed IMO, but how many people have been found innocent and let out of jail after a few years?

Rather just keep them in a horrible little cell and feed them slop three times a day until they die myself.

 

[Kurt.]

35 posts max

Who you calling max ? Rab

 

[Walken]

No proof its a deterant at all, and in countries that have it, a system that is abused by bellend politicians

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

No thanks. Let's go forward, not backward.

 

[ilikecheese]

No thanks. Let's go forward, not backward.

So, what you are saying is we shouldn't sign Rodwell...got it

 

[FTY]

No because I personally would rather be executed than serve life so it's not a bigger punishment, the only people who that would harm is the family of the accused and they are innocent 95% of the time so that's not fair.