Ask UK

1099 readers

1 users here now

Community for asking and answering any question related to the life, the people or anything related to the UK.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Do you support the death penalty? (self.askuk)

submitted 10 months ago by cashews_best_nut to c/[email protected]

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Last time I looked a majority of Brits support the death penalty. Which personally I've always found quite disturbing considering all the problems with it.

But 5 mins on any subreddit and you have people frothing at the mouth to hang every criminal.

Which if even more disturbing.

So what do you think?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I do not support the death penalty. In all cases, either death is going too far, or death is too good. Also, while you can let someone out of prison and compensate them for false imprisonment, you can't exactly resurrect people who turn out to be innocent.

In fact, I would say that the whole judicial system could be improved so criminals are rehabilitated, rather than punished.

Of course, I also believe there is an exception to every rule (including this rule), so there's probably an acceptable set of unusual circumstances in which classical imprisonment or even death are the best options; though I do not know what these would be.