Just saw this on another forum I post on. However, I think the general tone of people’s thoughts Is different there. I wanted to do a small test for myself, and to see what you lot thought too, and have an intelligent discussion. Which I dont think Id have on the other forum 😉 Dont get me wrong, there are some clever folk over there, but generally not.
Anyway, they posted a Petition for the Death Penalty to be brought back as an option for punishment.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/DeathPenalty2007/
Personally I don’t think so. The point the petiton starter Is making, Is that people aren’t scared of the law anymore. It may be true within some crimes, but no crime really deserves death. I would say there are not many sane people who commit horrific crimes. With this being said, a fucked up mind does not warrant their death as punishment. I think everyone deserves a chance at least, of redemption.
I also think most murders of innocent people are acts of passion, with the one’s that aren’t being acts of insanity. Passion being the irrational cloak that covers a person’s mind to enable them to take such actions. Insanity being unable to think like everyone else.
There are exceptions to the above, but I think that covers the most common murders.
Anyway, to the original point, you cannot show me many people anywhere who would see a life sentence a consequence they could live with in return of them being able to murder a person. No one In the right mind would give that. This leaves me to believe that people who commit those crimes, are not in the right mind, or thinking of consequence, so It is irrelevant of the punishment.
What do you lot think ?
