Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

The only thing that would improve with capital punishment is prison spaces being freed up. Is that good enough reason to get the wheel spinning? Factor in reproduction of offspring falling into the same circle of life

Yesterday when it was announced 3 new prisons will be built and offenders kept out of prison just made me sick with the thought of sentences to death being logical for more space. Whether I agree with it or not means little. Is there any other way other than heading towards a disaster, back to square one with prisons being once again full.

Theres no prospects other than hard graft. This isn't how life will prosper.

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

Please could you add an anonymous poll

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce809e3gd1xo

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

If the Police want to kill innocent people that's up to them. They are who arrest and charge people for crimes. I don't see it as a death penalty issue.

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

That’s not how it works…

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

Please tell me more. Is it the CPS who charge individuals? May be they should be held accountable.

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Police arrest, CPS give a thumbs up or down, judge directs, jury decides. A possibility of a death penalty sentence could potentially make jurors less likely to convict, regardless of that I think it's a terrible idea as illustrated by Hugh above.

Should Capital Punishment be brought back?
 

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

And if that were the case (which it isn’t) how would you hold them accountable ?

Execute the CPS for authorising the charge ?
Execute the forensic scientist who screwed the DNA evidence up ?
Execute the jury for convicting based on the evidence that they made their decision
Execute the judge for passing the death sentence based on sentencing guidelines.

Unless you can ensure that 100% of convictions are safe then the death penalty has no place in a modern civilised society.

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

I'd blacklist them. Go back to the drawing board amateurs playing with life.

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

Yes, but should be limited to very clear cases.

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

And therein lies the problem.

Criminal guilt is established in court ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. What higher legal test would you propose to be even more certain? And if there is a higher test that can reasonably be applied, why is it not applied already to all cases, so that we are certain we are not incarcerating innocent people?

Re: Should capital punishment be brought back?
 

These are largely solved problems. You can put multiple charges to the jury, explain which the death penalty can be considered. It is then the judge who decides the punishment - with multiple levels of appeal.

It is of course always technically possible you kill an innocent person, but that is probably far less likely than getting murdered in prison at this point. The objections to it are largely hand wringing or some very committed pacifist principle.

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Not reinventing the wheel is critical. None of that we live we learn nonsense. People is positions of power should know their place in society otherwise bring about a criminal case as well as blacklisted.