Only if you think it is a society worth replicating.Maybe we can learn something from ISIS after all.
Only if you think it is a society worth replicating.Maybe we can learn something from ISIS after all.
Birmingham 6 , Guildford 4 , Derek Bentley. Nothing more needs be said really , and if you look at how many are on death row then it is obviously not a deterrent to crime is it.Only if you allow a 'death row' to be established.
This defendant has been found guilty of murder.
If we had the death penalty he could be executed within days.
It would only be the sentence of a court, which in this case he received two or three days after conviction.
Birmingham 6 , Guildford 4 , Derek Bentley. Nothing more needs be said really , and if you look at how many are on death row then it is obviously not a deterrent to crime is it.
States in America that have the death penalty, on the whole, have a higher murder rate than those that don't.I don't see the relevance of what happens in a foreign country.
Anyway, you could say the American crime rate would be higher were it not for the death penalty - another reason not to take much account of what happens over there.
Apparent miscarriages of justice will always be an argument against the death penalty, but the Birmingham Six were convicted 40 years ago.
There is a limit to the length of time the anti-argument can hang its hat on that case.
States in America that have the death penalty, on the whole, have a higher murder rate than those that don't.
Cause or effect though?
and anyway, America is a bit of a madhouse, certain states more so than others - so could be correlation rather than causation: more violent nutters = more likely to favour death penalty AND more likely to murder each other / run amok
You are familiar with the notion of reasonable force?
So what? It doesn't negate the principal.
Dunno about the US, but it's reckoned to cost about £40,000 a year to keep a prisoner in the UK.
Thus the bill for 21 years' board and lodgings at Her Majesty's Pleasure will be £840,000.
Execution won't be cheap, not least because we would have to re-establish the way to do it.
But it surely wouldn't cost £840,000.