to bring back capital punishment?

[redhead23]

do u think if we had tougher sentences ie - capital punishment , crime would be less in todays society ?

[jake-the-peg]

Forgiveme infundibulum but you're not making much sense that last post seems pretty incoherent.

You can make sentences as stiff as you like - how about disembowlment?

It'll make no difference if people do not believe they will be caught.

If I put a million pounds under your nose but say that if you take it there's a million to one shot you'll die - what are you going to do?

What if it's a million to one shot you'll live?

It's not tougher sentences you want to be thinking of it's detection rates or more specifically the perception of detection rates.

[spudmuffa]

I believe in bringing in the guillotine. It worked a treat during the French Revolution, and as a bonus, many great works of literature emanated from it.
It is quick, humane and easily transportable.
It would really make me think twice before I nicked my usual couple of "tinnies" out of Asda.

[redhead23]

chill inf

[jake-the-peg]

I think you're sayin that every complex problem has a simple answer - and it's always wrong!

If so I agree with you.

What particular long term, far sighted solution do you favour?

[Octavius]

So you only get stars if you agree with Capital Punishment?

Hardly an unbiased grown up debate then.

pfuff. twaddle-bunkum.

[joko]

it would be good if they brought it back, but secretly had no intention of ever enforcing it - the fear may deter only a few but its better than nothing, lol

i think longer sentences and harsher conditions is the way


with the wealth of information on the net these day, criminals are more aware of the law - and its pitfalls - than ever before and coupled with their arrogance will always think they can beat the system and have evidence to back this up.

[Scylax]

Statistically, Britain does not have a major problem
with murder. In fact it has just about the lowest incidence of murder in the civilised world. Murder is not, typically,
the British method of resolving problems, unlike
S. Africa or the USA.

In the UK, murder is usually 'domestic'; man kills
wife, etc. - a crime of a 'one-off' nature.
Even prior to 1965, capital punishment was a rarity, and
rightly so, as Timothy Evans would testify. God forbid
that our laws ever make that ghastly mistake again.

Some states in the USA maintain the death penalty, but
the sentence is not death; typically it is death preceded
by 10 or 12 years on 'Death-Row'. This is justice,
American style. Does it reduce the incidence of
murder in the USA ? Ask our American friends.

[redhead23]

nope thats fine im taking all the comments on board - i dont get personal with anyone i want to hear your views thats all

[Bellringer]

Octavious; The thing about capital punishment is that if one person killed in the course of a crime then all those involved were deemed to be guilty of the same offence. Villains in the old days would not work with those who went armed for just that reason.
I am a great beliver in suspended sentences. Hang them

[Whickerman]

In answer to Lonnie's post:

The uK may have a bigger problem than most of Europe - I don't know about that - but since European countries also have no death penalty the analogy is meaningless, sorry.