This is why we should bring back the death penalty

Are the family of the victim not also victims? If someone murdered my loved one I'd want them dead.

I would bring the death penalty back for all murders in this category and for all child murderers.

So you would presumably bring back the death penalty also?
An Eye for an Eye and all that?
The entire premise is machiavellian, and medieval.

there are other ways of meting out punishment that odern day people will find far more of a punishment that being killed,

take away their devices, freedom and ability to make choices.

Putting poeple to death makes us no better than killers ourselves

It doesn't lower us to the same level of the criminal at all. Any more than locking someone in prison lowers us to the same level as someone who illegally imprisons someone.

While the story is horrific, You- OP seem increadibly sensitive. For something like that, and through a newspaper article no less - to "stay with you for years" says that maybe you sould seek some councelling for yourself.

A state sanctioned death penalty would be a massive step back in rights, and the possibility of misscaridges of justice is way too high.

he death penalty would only be for the satifiaction of others, as the victim won't know anything about it.

As horrific as it it, the dead are dead - and killing someone else of a premise of it being justice - doesn not make it better, in fact it lowers others to the same level as the criminal

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A tiny carpeted cell with entertainment, warmth, three meals a day.. Rose West is living a better retirement than a lot of people can afford to in this country. She is an abhorrent individual who deserves no sympathy. She’s changed her name to apparently give her a clean slate when her miserable life ends. I was surprised to read she was even allowed to do that, doesn’t sound to me that she has processed how wicked her actions were if she thinks she deserves a shot at heaven.

What lovely friends you have,Grandma!

If it was cheaper, or easier or worked as a deterrent I'd be with you OP. I lose my need for morals when it comes to people who have none. Unfortunately it's not cheaper or easier, the appeals run on for years and years, and it clearly doesn't work as a deterrent in the US.

What we need to be doing is putting a lot more money into schools, children's social services, parenting classes and support, children's mental health services, paediatricians, fostering, teen drug and alcohol services, university pastoral care - and basically anything and everything that can help to ensure children have a happy, healthy, successful childhood and young adulthood. Happy childhoods lead to happy adulthoods.

I think the death penalty should only be used in cases where there is no doubt and the crime is particularly heinous. Think Axel Radukabana or the Lee Rigby killer.

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I agree op. With cases like this where’s it’s there in black and white they should go from the courtroom to the gallows.

Some people need killing.

Well that’s a big fat lie. I know quite a few people right now in prison with phones and PlayStations. Dd speaks to her best friend everyday on Snapchat. Bless you thinking prison is hard and prisoners don’t have nothing.

I don’t think anyone would miss this guy…

And for those wrongly convicted? Just accept that innocent people may be put to death?

It's disturbed not to want innocent people killed?

We covered Derek Bentley (a young man with severe learning difficulties who's execution contributed to the abolition of the death penalty) in English A Level. The way his statement was 'cleaned' to sound like an articulate adult.

If I'm disturbed for wanting no more Derek Bentleys or Jean Charles de Menezes, I'm OK with that. Human life doesn't stop being of value when someone turns 18.

So you're not even going to pretend it is a deterrent? You just want to kill people.

The problem with this case was that he couldn't be refused access to the baby because he had parental rights, despite the fact he was a known risk.

I might feel more sympathetic about the death penalty if it actually reduced the rate of murders, but it doesn't. And the baby would still be dead. IMO its better to prevent harm in the first place.

That's the point.

The death penalty isn't about combating violence. It is about the ultimate punishment.

They’re all of the above, with outdated, archaic practices that need reform.

Huntley I think doesn't have a whole life order
Bellfield has two

Japan has the death penalty. Are they not a modern civilised society?

This.

Thank goodness we don’t have emotionally charged people dictating and deciding the law.

There is no place for the death penalty in a modern, civilised society.

Locking people up is not permanent. Death is