Capital Punishment - Is there a place for it today? (Capital punishment)

Member Name: googleeyes001

Product:	Capital punishment
Date:	15/05/08 (55 review reads)
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Advantages: Cost

Disadvantages: Ethics

Capital punishment is topical issue which will always have relavence. I feel inclined to agree with the use of the death penalty, but and i must stress this, only in the most extreme and serious cases. The average cost of detaing a prisoner in a uk jail for 1 years is roughlt £25,700. Which I'm sure most tax payers would agree is to much to pay for what is a blight on society, especially when there is approxamiatley 82,000 people in prison in the UK, now that equates to the taxpayer paying over £2 million pounds to keep prisoners. The sentece for murder is usually about 16 years, so thats over £200,000 for one murderer.

However there are major issues in the arguement against capital punishment is, what gives you the right to take a life?.
Is there enough need for execution? Do murders still have a right to life? Well i believe that when a person unlawfully takes another perosns life they forgoe their own right to life, the ultimate deterrant for crime is death. A large percent of those who commit crime are likely to reoffend within 3 years, howvere with captial punishment there is no chance of that. As i have said the only time i would condone capital punishment is in extreme cases and where there is irrifutable evidnece, and this irrifutable evidence can usually be found in the cases on serial criminality.

In general i think there may be a place in todays society for capital punishment and before condemming my writing on an ethical basis, consider my points.

Summary: Consider it.