Reinstating Capital Punishment in Britain

Reinstating Capital Punishment in Britain

Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for

violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to

death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have

included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at

the stake, impaling, and beheading. Today capital punishment is

typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, electrocution,

hanging, or shooting. The death penalty is the most notorious severe

practice in the modern world. Other harsh, physical forms of criminal

punishment also referred to as corporal punishment have generally been

eliminated in modern times as unsophisticated and unnecessary.

Britain itself had effectively abolished capital punishment by 1965

due to the 'inhumane' methods of execution and unjust reasons for the

executions with the only exception being for treason.

Now, almost 30 years later, technology has evolved in such a way that

mistakes would be virtually unheard of and the method of execution far

more excepted in today's society. So this begs the question that is on

the minds of many members of the public and government of Britain,

should capital punishment be reinstated in Britain? There are many

arguments for and against capital punishment and the country needs to

take these into account to make a lawful and well-revised decision on

the subject.

There are 4 main reasons for the death penalty these include:

Incapacitation of the criminal, cost, retribution, and deterrence.

The Incapacitation of the criminal means that Capital punishment

permanently removes the worst criminals from soci...

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...happen then it is a definite possibility to convict an offender to

life and stick to it.

After studying the many different opinions of the death penalty it is

clear that there many views on the matter and many facts and figures

representing why the death penalty should or should not be reinstated

into Britain.

However, in my personal opinion I believe that a criminal should pay

for what they have done and methods of deterrence at present times are

just not as tough as they should be. So for a safer and more

productive society I think that harsher measures should be inforced

and criminals should be brought to justice, whether or not this means

ending their lives or not is a matter of personal opinion and will

surely be debated for many years, if it is enforced or not is up to

the public and government to decide.