

With all the recent stories about suicide bombers, racist murderers in Huyton, Hoodie-wearing thugs on the buses there's been a lot of focus on how to combat Britain's cluture of street violence and also what to do with extremist terrorist murderers
Maybe a re-think on the death penalty would deter some of these attacks?
Personally I DON'T think it should be brought back, for a number of reasons. The obvious is that we can never be 100% cast-iron guaranteed that the right person was found guilty of the crime, and we cannot have a society whereby innocent individuals can be killed by the government in the name of justice. Secondly it punishes not so much the offender, but the offender's family are given a life-sentence of grieving, which seems obviously flawed to me. I also fully agree with PUNISHMENT for crime. Serious offenders (murderers, bombers etc) should be made to serve long prison sentences, and in prisons where there are no luxuries. It's all well and good to talk about rehabilitation but that can be done after the offender has done his penance
Lastly, in the case of these attempted suicide bombers and other islamist extremists they would be seen as martyrs and would love the thought of dying for their cause as they have been brainwashed into believing a life of luxury with 40 virgins awaits. Don't give them the satisfaction of allowing them to become martyrs, lock them up and make the f*ckers suffer
Your thoughts amigos?