Death penalty
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Obviously not. Over the years various loony administrations have had such a penalty. One I remember concerned a young female opponent of the Nazis who was beheaded for throwing leaflets into an auditorium.
I'm glad you agree (sorry, obviously I'm against it), but I'm getting a bit worried that this is a topic actually being discussed on QT. I never thought I'd see the day.
Life. No parole.
And not just for the US.
There's countries such as Turkey who have campaigned for EU membership but have struggled due to their record on human rights. One of the main stumbling blocks was their use of the death penelty. So it came as no surprise when Turkey abolished it in an attempt to better their chances of EU membership.
The point is, (re)introducing the dealth penelty in this country or any other would be a significant step backwards.
There are dreadful crimes committed by people but if we murder these people (or the Government murders them on our behalf) then we have blood on our hands.
Against it,mistakes are made,you can't reprieve the dead.
However, longer jail time is needed for murderers etc.Life can be 15 years etc,that's nothing if the criminal is in their teens/twenties.
katty, I agrea. We don't have to be anybody.
I have a grim view agrainst the death penity. 
Spider, just talking about it because it seems to make the headlines. 
Disgusting. 
The Troy Davis case should make everybody, who sees it as the answer, think again.
Voted "No".
Agree with Velvet and Kaffy re sentencing.
Vote No
One innocent person being executed is one too many
Ah! I didn't realise this had something to do with Newnight and a domestic policy.
Even so one can't cherry pick the bits one likes from backward countries such as the USA and Iran.
No, the biggest meta analysis ever done (by the UN) a few years back found no significant deterrent value in the death penalty. I would back it if it was a real deterrent but it simply isn't. I do believe in proper life sentences for the worst murders though!
When i heard Baby P's mother is out next year then something isn't right for the system is it? So the likes of her and her boyfriend and his brother. Rose West, Myra Hindley, Ian Huntley i'd gladly push the button
i believe there has to be a lot more thinking on the part of politicians and the legal fraternity, with a view to finding another way to rehabilitate non violent offenders, so that they don't spend their lives behind bars, with sentences making them contribute to society, rather that locking them up.
i also think the only people that should ever be imprisioned are those that are a danger to the public.
needless to say, really, that the death sentence is pointless because it's not a deterent, and as katie said you can't reprieve a dead man, later..
No... and not just because of the risk of an innocent man being executed.
I don't believe in taking a life, end of. That doesn't mean there aren't some evil bastards out there that I wish didn't exist.. I do. I think those kind of people should be removed from our society...
I've mentioned this before.. but I'd have the dangerous twisted monsters shipped to a penal colony.. left there with each other to fend for themselves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7052109.stm
Enough said, really, I think. One of the many worrying aspects of this dreadful case is that evidence was available at the time of the trial that would have proved that Stefan was innocent but it was kept back. As a result he was jailed for a crime he didn't commit whilst the guilty party who committed this heinous crime against a child was left at liberty.
No - I'm against the taking of a life
however, I wish life meant life in this country for the most serious of cases - so a tariff of life without parole should be introduced and those prisoners should be made to work to support their upkeep 
I like the idea of 25- life with a possibility of parole IF the prisoner has shown true remorse (although that could be difficult to determine) and a willingness to change their behaviour i.e. access to improving education and learning skills to get a job when they get out and links with companies prepared to employ them rather than exploit them as cheap labour.
I don't think we should go back to Victorian days of prisons, but I do wish they'd stop making them like holiday camps with gaming consoles and fully kitted out gyms unless the prisoners buy the stuff out of their work wages