Jason Chapman
Registered Senior Member
I briefly watched a debate this morning on whether or not they should bring back the death penalty in the UK.
In a society where innocent members of the public have been murdered by mindless yobs high on alcohol and drugs, the subject of reintroducing the death penalty is back in the public eye.
I’m of the opinion that bringing back the death penalty won’t solve the current social problems that plague our streets. In America they have the death penalty, however this still isn’t enough to deter people from going out and committing the most horrid murders.
There is growing call for tougher sentences which I fully agree with. The trouble is with sentencing in the UK is that when someone is sentenced to life it isn’t nearly enough years that it used to be. The last time there was a murder in my home town of Abergavenny was in 1987 and the three men convicted of the murder got twenty years. They have all been released from prison now, but none of them have come back to town, there is still bad feeling by the victim’s family.
The only time when someone gets imprisoned for life in the UK is if they are a serial killer such as Rose West or when it’s a very nasty murder case such as the Soham murders committed by Ian Huntley, although it could be said that he only received two life sentences and could well be released when he’s and old man.
Life should mean life, if you murder someone you should be locked up until you die, no question about it. However the law has gone soft, and there is too much red tape concerning the proper sentencing of people who commit murder. There the point of wrongful sentencing, there have been cases where people have been locked up for decades for committing crimes they didn’t do. British history is also riddled with cases of people wrongly convicted of a crime and put to death.
I wonder have there been similar cases in the USA, where people have been wrongly put to death? Even in the modern age of DNA evidence i feel that nothing is certain.
So the question is, Death Penalty in the UK ‘Yes or No?’
In a society where innocent members of the public have been murdered by mindless yobs high on alcohol and drugs, the subject of reintroducing the death penalty is back in the public eye.
I’m of the opinion that bringing back the death penalty won’t solve the current social problems that plague our streets. In America they have the death penalty, however this still isn’t enough to deter people from going out and committing the most horrid murders.
There is growing call for tougher sentences which I fully agree with. The trouble is with sentencing in the UK is that when someone is sentenced to life it isn’t nearly enough years that it used to be. The last time there was a murder in my home town of Abergavenny was in 1987 and the three men convicted of the murder got twenty years. They have all been released from prison now, but none of them have come back to town, there is still bad feeling by the victim’s family.
The only time when someone gets imprisoned for life in the UK is if they are a serial killer such as Rose West or when it’s a very nasty murder case such as the Soham murders committed by Ian Huntley, although it could be said that he only received two life sentences and could well be released when he’s and old man.
Life should mean life, if you murder someone you should be locked up until you die, no question about it. However the law has gone soft, and there is too much red tape concerning the proper sentencing of people who commit murder. There the point of wrongful sentencing, there have been cases where people have been locked up for decades for committing crimes they didn’t do. British history is also riddled with cases of people wrongly convicted of a crime and put to death.
I wonder have there been similar cases in the USA, where people have been wrongly put to death? Even in the modern age of DNA evidence i feel that nothing is certain.
So the question is, Death Penalty in the UK ‘Yes or No?’