Should capital punishment be brought back?

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There has been much debate and discussion whether capital punishment should be brought back following the Letby case.

I am totally opposed to it. There have been countless people arrested and locked up and then exonerated years later, not only in the US where they still have the death penalty but also in the UK when we had it too. Since the death penalty was abolished here, there have been notable cases including the Birmingham Six and one just recently that would have almost certainly have received the death penalty. These people would have been killed by the state despite their innocence.

Not to mention that killing people is an abomination, whether it is the state or a person doing it.

It must never be brought back.

 

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I would say yes in some cases, but also admit that is a totally emotive response (a good friend was killed in the Fishmongers hall attack)
I would like to see hard labour brought back though, even if that's breaking rocks or walking on a wheel 18 hours a day.

Sorry to read this. My Dad was there on that day and I still feel as strongly that the death penalty must not be brought back. These people should rot in jail for life and think about the lives they have taken. They would be very happy to be killed by the state after a public trial because it would make them a martyr (I know Khan was shot and killed by police)

 

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What if someone confessed to the crime of murder, and dna evidence backed it up, would the people against the death penalty still be against it in that situation?

This has happened in the USA on a number of occasions. The Police get false confessions (as essentially they can lie and do wherever they wish) and then use DNA evidence to prove people are guilty even when they are not. So yes, I am still against it.

 

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There have been a couple of cases in the UK from when people had the death penalty given and were then executed. They've since been exonerated after death.

Surely any rational person would conclude that these people should have been allowed to live?