Should the Death Penalty be Re-introduced in the UK?
The capital punishment in the U.K. has now been abolished for just less than 50 years. It was abolished on the 9th November 1965 with the last execution being performed on the 7th April 1964 on Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen for brutally killing the unfortunate John Alan West when they tried to rob him. Since that time many people have looked back and wondered if the Government made the right decision. This is a highly controversial topic, even today and so in this project I hope to look at both sides of the argument and from different angles.
First of all I’m am going to look at the arguments for reintroducing the capital punishment. The political arguments for reintroducing the death …show more content…
The capital punishment gives the victim 's families and friends who have suffered an awful a chance to have their mind at rest as they know that justice has been done. In some cases the offenders would gladly accept the death penalty as it means a way out of many years, and more likely than not the rest of their life, in prison. And this could potentially decrease the suicide rate and the amount of self-harmers in both male and female prisons. Religious views on this topic vary greatly. Opinion among Christians on capital punishment is mixed. However, Christians who favor capital punishment for certain types of crimes such as premeditated murder than those who would oppose capital punishment without reservation, are probably just among the majority. This is because of a common interpretation that the Old Testament has the capital punishment, and nothing in the New Testament says that maximum punishment, as society 's means of dealing effectively with serious crimes is a bad thing. Islam as a religion strongly believes in the death penalty as way with dealing with certain criminals. According to the Islamic rules, the death penalty is acceptable in two cases only. Firstly, if a person is physically harmed or injured by another, Islam directs the state to provide justice to the …show more content…
First of all the amount of taxpayers money needed to carry out a single execution is astronomical. Many people think that it is cheaper to use the death penalty than to keep someone in prison for life but in fact in the USA one execution cost $3 million of taxpayers’ money and one person who spends 50 years in prison uses up $2 million less. Another problem is that there would be a huge increase in the number of additional procedures needed in our law system and would clog up the courts. As well as this the UK would be regarded in a poorer light. Take America for example. Many countries have a negative opinion on them due to thinks such as the death penalty. Even if we did have capital punishment it still might not be used effectively as jury members may be reluctant to being ‘responsible’ for the death of a person. As I mentioned earlier technology has meant that DNA samples are more easily matched than ever and so criminals can be caught much quicker but there is always a possibility that an innocent man or woman will be put on trail and put to death which is always a great risk. On some occasions the death penalty draws sympathy to the awful perpetrators and so ruins the object the idea of it being a punishment and more about making it a ‘sacrifice’. Finally some court cases involving talk of the capital punishment draws in extremely skilled lawyers who work for little or no cost and do it for the
The capital punishment in the U.K. has now been abolished for just less than 50 years. It was abolished on the 9th November 1965 with the last execution being performed on the 7th April 1964 on Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen for brutally killing the unfortunate John Alan West when they tried to rob him. Since that time many people have looked back and wondered if the Government made the right decision. This is a highly controversial topic, even today and so in this project I hope to look at both sides of the argument and from different angles.
First of all I’m am going to look at the arguments for reintroducing the capital punishment. The political arguments for reintroducing the death …show more content…
The capital punishment gives the victim 's families and friends who have suffered an awful a chance to have their mind at rest as they know that justice has been done. In some cases the offenders would gladly accept the death penalty as it means a way out of many years, and more likely than not the rest of their life, in prison. And this could potentially decrease the suicide rate and the amount of self-harmers in both male and female prisons. Religious views on this topic vary greatly. Opinion among Christians on capital punishment is mixed. However, Christians who favor capital punishment for certain types of crimes such as premeditated murder than those who would oppose capital punishment without reservation, are probably just among the majority. This is because of a common interpretation that the Old Testament has the capital punishment, and nothing in the New Testament says that maximum punishment, as society 's means of dealing effectively with serious crimes is a bad thing. Islam as a religion strongly believes in the death penalty as way with dealing with certain criminals. According to the Islamic rules, the death penalty is acceptable in two cases only. Firstly, if a person is physically harmed or injured by another, Islam directs the state to provide justice to the …show more content…
First of all the amount of taxpayers money needed to carry out a single execution is astronomical. Many people think that it is cheaper to use the death penalty than to keep someone in prison for life but in fact in the USA one execution cost $3 million of taxpayers’ money and one person who spends 50 years in prison uses up $2 million less. Another problem is that there would be a huge increase in the number of additional procedures needed in our law system and would clog up the courts. As well as this the UK would be regarded in a poorer light. Take America for example. Many countries have a negative opinion on them due to thinks such as the death penalty. Even if we did have capital punishment it still might not be used effectively as jury members may be reluctant to being ‘responsible’ for the death of a person. As I mentioned earlier technology has meant that DNA samples are more easily matched than ever and so criminals can be caught much quicker but there is always a possibility that an innocent man or woman will be put on trail and put to death which is always a great risk. On some occasions the death penalty draws sympathy to the awful perpetrators and so ruins the object the idea of it being a punishment and more about making it a ‘sacrifice’. Finally some court cases involving talk of the capital punishment draws in extremely skilled lawyers who work for little or no cost and do it for the