Capital punishment Reviews

Capital punishment is such or should I say one of the top 3 controversial issues of all time. I see the validity of both arguments...Opponents of the death penalty say that it has led to the execution of innocent people, that life imprisonment is an effective and less expensive substitute, that it discriminates against minorities and the poor, and ...  Read the complete review

Am I right in thinking this is about jail sentences?? If so read on, If not ignore me!!!! My views on capital punishment........ I think life sentences should automatically mean LIFE, not 11 years or so, earlier release for good behaviour!! If they were good people in the first place they would not be locked up! I think ...  Read the complete review

************************************************* ~ A Polite Notice For Those of a Nervous Disposition~ ************************************************* Now this is going to be hugely controversial, so if you work for social services, live down a tree lined avenue, smoke a pipe, strongly approve of the human rights bill, and ...  Read the complete review

This is such a controversial subject, no matter what I write, I'm sure someone will agree and someone won't so I'm going to present my opinion and feelings as best as I can. When you say capital punishment I think about execution i.e hanging, electric chair, lethal jab. I personally think that the electric chair is really sick and ...  Read the complete review

I definitely think capital punishment is a good idea, if the crime warrants it. However, I think it should only be used if there is absolutely no doubt that the convicted person is the person that committed the crime. If there is any level of doubt, incarceration should be used instead, either until more evidence can be bought before the courts ...  Read the complete review

I am a firm believer that people are by-products of their society. I don't think that there is any escaping that some people genuinely are born as sick individuals who will become rapists/murders/criminals regardless of their upbringing. However, I do think that this is in the minority, and that how people grow up and turn-out is ...  Read the complete review

Capital punishment i.e. the death sentence, state execution. The arguments against: To execute somebody for committing a murder is the highest form of hypocrisy. A society cannot on one hand say that taking a life is wrong and then in the same breathe sanction the taking of life by the state. What if the conviction ...  Read the complete review

~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~ On 13th July 1955, a fine summer's morning, Ruth Ellis, a 28 year old nightclub manageress convicted of murdering her lover, David Blakely, sat in the condemned cell at Holloway Prison with a priest and her guards as the clock approached nine o'clock. She was given a large tot of brandy to ...  Read the complete review

Personally I think we definately need harsher penalties for crimes overall, particularly sex crimes and homicide. However, lets take a look at other countries which do have death penalties : certain states in america do still hold a death penalty, yet the question really is whether as a percentage, this is any different to our own current stats ...  Read the complete review

I dissagree with you idea that capitol punishment is good but you bring up some intresting points and its pretty well written But im just going to say that an eye for an eye and the world goes blind death brings about more death just as war brings about more war im not a religious person but laws say killing is wrong and no one should choose whether somone else lives or dies even if they do deserve it.

I'm not sure what I'd prefer to see done to a criminal. Let them stay in prison until they die or kill them. I think that people who have stolen a bit or are in for something more trivial should just be behind bars for a few years, but I think that someone like Ian Huntley, the sick b*st*Rd who killed those two little girls should be killed! He ...  Read the complete review

This is a really hard subject to debate. Should we bring back the death penalty? Some say yes some no and some have mixed feelings, even now in a few countries capital punishment is still used, these countries include the USA, china, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia an Pakistan. Hard to believe but in 2008 the execution rate in the world was 2,390 with ...  Read the complete review

Ooh, I do like writing on controversial subjects! And capital punishment has to be one of the most argued-about topics there is! I am usually quite an open-minded person, and my views on many things have changed over the years, but my views on capital punishment remain the same now as they've been since I was in my teens: if there is ...  Read the complete review

Capital Punishment can be a very emotive subject to discuss and the first thing I should say is that in my opinion it should not be an issue in which any person can state in absolute terms that their opinion is definitely the correct one. You also have to take into consideration the views of people who terribly sadly have had a close ...  Read the complete review

This may prove to be a harder review to write than the norm. Then again, it is not such an easy subject to discuss than say, which washing up liquid washed the dishes the most effectively. Capital punishment is one of those topics where everybody has some opinion on it, and for me personally it is a subject where it is difficult for me ...  Read the complete review

I agree capital punishment should be brought back if proven forensically 100%, even if it came to child killers such as James Bulger's murderers, they too should have faced punishment by death! our society today lets people walk away with a sentence so inappropriate! I believe in setting an example a life for a life! It may seem cruel and immoral ...  Read the complete review

Ok so this is a really controversial subject and I understand that everyone wont agree with my opinion. Capital punishment in my opinion is wrong, I do understand why someone who had been wronged would like to see that person dead and how the government see it as a way to scare people from commiting terrible crimes and also as a way to ...  Read the complete review

I am strongly opposed to the idea of the state having a legitimised power to kill the electorate. Even if there was a particular person who I wished were dead because of something unethical they had done I would not want the state to loan any ontological support to the concept even on a one off basis. People who support capital ...  Read the complete review

Capital Punishment Recently we've just got off a huge conversation about Capital Punishment in english. We watched a film called Let Him Have it and had to write an essay on it and our oppinion on capital punishment. I am undecided about capital punishment i mean yes it is ok if you know that the person who is going to ...  Read the complete review

This is always a difficult subject to discuss on any forum isn't it. Opinion on this is so polarised, it is like abortion and gay/lesbian rights. Often people have no middle ground. I consider myself to be well educated and left wing. I don't believe that provate companies should run our trains, buses, water, electric and gas. I do ...  Read the complete review