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Your Daily Question, Monday April 13th
Tikay10
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A hypothetical today.
You are the Prime Minister for the day, & there's a vote on bringing back capital punishment. The Cabinet are split, the votes cast are exactly level, so you have the casting vote.
1) Will you vote FOR capital punishment?
2) Will you vote AGAINST capital punishment?
And of course include "why".
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I don't believe justice should involve taking someone's life if there is an alternative.
The amount of miscarriages of justice over the years which would not be possible to rectify.
I don't want that blood and guilt on my conscience.
I understand relatives of murder victims wanting severe punishments for the perpetrators.
I would be the same if it was my loved ones.
But that is revenge, not justice.
I remember having a heated debate with @hhyftrftdr on here a while ago about this very issue. I don't have the time or inclination to go down that path again so refuse to answer, which probably tells you how I would answer.
Against.
Nowadays Modern Science and DNA technology can prove that people have carried out the horrendous crimes, so I think it is time it was brought back. It might actually make Murderers and the like think twice, if they knew there was every chance that they too were going to die.
Prisons would be less crowded and cost the Taxpayer £50K per Criminal less to run. That money could be used elsewhere, and I think we are all realising there is a huge need for it in the NHS.
At least Suicide Bombers kill themselves when they choose to do what they do, and save us the job.
Right.... I'll go and get my Tin Hat
Evidence shows us that it is no deterrent. Capital crimes run at the same level in U.S. States with the death penalty as in those without.
Its rarely about justice either, its really just a tool for revenge.
Sentencing someone to death and it's came out as an error would haunt me.
As it happens in my 20s the vote would have been FOR capital punishment,
Of course you have the prison costs etc so from the "business side" you may have to say FOR. I don't know about British prisons as much as American, however prisons are a business in their own right and employ staff who feed and clothe their kids. It's a dilemma.
Is there a middle option or simple FOR and AGAINST
And yet we see many convictions quashed at a later date