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Never suggested that - but innocent people have been executed.

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'14 Days in May' a haunting documentary that made my mind up about the death penalty. A BBC camera crew followed a young poor black man on death row. He turned out to be innocent, which wasn't known at the time of filming or proved till after his death.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20...t-1_shortfilms

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Plus if you are going to implement the death penalty you would want some evidence it does deter crime. States which abolished the death penalty in the US didn't see a rise in crime and there is no noticeable difference between those states which have and which do not although that's harder to measure.

I think the people who commit crimes worthy of a death sentence are not think clearly or do not live the the same lives. The guy who wrote The Wire pointed out the people in the drug trade were far more concerned and likely to be killed by each other rather than the state.

Re: Migrant found GUILTY of Raping boy 5, given Rehabilitation Order
 

Locking them up also doesn't deter crime, so theoretically, in principle we should scrap prisons or indeed another other punishment.:rolleyes:

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No because prison protects others. You can't deter everyone and again not everyone really cares about the deterrent because they've got nothing to lose or they're just not of a mind that is relatable to us.

Re: Migrant found GUILTY of Raping boy 5, given Rehabilitation Order
 

That assumes that they get sent to prison in the first place, as with this case. They are also released at some point.

If you are going to use an argument that the death penalty doesn't deter crime, then automatically you have to accept that as prison doesn't deter crime that should also be abolished.

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Actually, he didn't make that argument - he said there was no evidence that the death penalty reduced crime.

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Why? Prison protects others by taking people out of free society. It servers a purpose other than deterrence, it can also be used to rehabilitate people to try and reduce reoffenders.

The argument against the death penalty is primarily that mistakes can be made and, in my view, that state shouldn't kill people if it doesn't absolutely have to. If it's not a deterrent either then it offers no advantages over prison but comes with the added risk of executing innocent people. Plenty of people have been cleared of their crimes on death row, sadly some were cleared after they're execution.

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I don't think anyones suggested that.The death penalty is simply about society's revenge on a killer .Revenge has no place in the justice system .The reason why the death penalty is no deterrent is because the largest part of murders happen on the spur of the moment with no thought given to the consequences

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Oh yes. I've seen immigrants just grab hold of womens breasts because in their culture it's perfectly acceptable to do this as women are little more than objects of meat to be enjoyed by men.

They soon get shown the door, that's not if the woman hasn't done it first!

I think that we're all capable of murder in the right circumstances, especially in the heat of the moment.

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Rehabilitate people, yeah right.:rolleyes:

There will be one-off offenders who don't need rehabilitating, then there will be others who are not exactly first time offenders by the time they get sent to prison, and then there are those where it is simply part of their mindset and those they associate with.

Re: Migrant found GUILTY of Raping boy 5, given Rehabilitation Order
 

So do i and as such would we stop and think "i won't kill the bloke i just found in bed with my wife because we have the death penalty" i don't think so

Re: Migrant found GUILTY of Raping boy 5, given Rehabilitation Order
 

I'd kill the wife instead and go have a drink with the bloke!:D

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I'd "rehabilitate" him with a selection of sharp implements applied to his nether regions.

Re: Migrant found GUILTY of Raping boy 5, given Rehabilitation Order
 

Oh we're so posh and over precious aren't we ? :rolleyes: