Capital Punishment
The week has seen some of the most horrific murders in some time, the honeymoon couple attacked in Antigua leaving the Bride and Groom dead and just the other a day a British girl found chopped up in a suitcase by her Brazilian boyfriend. Then we have another victim if knife crime when a young woman was stabbed in Battersea on Thursday evening.
We live in a scary world with many deranged people who ether have more than a screw loose or are a result of a very messed up society. These as any crime should be treated in the same way and result in some kind of justice for those victims or their families. But what is justice for such crimes as above?
The UK abolished capital punishment in 1998 although the last execution was in 1963 for murder, many European countries followed suit as such and now there are only The United States, Guatemala, Caribbean and the majority of Asia and Africa still enforce the Death Penalty. Now it seems to me that the rise in violent crimes in the UK most commonly the Knife crime where we see young people carrying and using knives without remorse, surely we need to rethink our justice system as the threat of jail time has no effect on our young society.
The Brazilian man who chopped up his British girlfriend is said to be getting 36 years for what he did, does that seem right to you? The British government have said they will help Antigua in catching the Killer/s of the Honeymoon couple but only as long as they do not execute them when caught, Does this seem right?
Life is the most precious thing a person has and if this is taken away unlawfully then in turn should those responsible have theirs taken away?
2 comments:
No problem with criminals getting killed in the act - tough, but don't go with capital punishment.
That "beyond reasonable doubt" thing is a bit of nonsense. In reality there is nearly always some reasonable doubt. At least wrongful imprisonment can be reversed.
Juries may be more reluctant to convict thus putting the public more at risk not less.
But in the case of the brazilean boy who has owned up and without doubt did it, with cases like that then it should be execution.
Its understandable that juries can at times be wrong, this week sees the release of Barry George convicted of killing Jill Dando, but his conviction was laid on very poor evidence. The evidence needs to be strong and in that actually putting the suspect there without doubt.
I really do think that ok if it were only to be used in certain circumstances capital punishment should be brought back.
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