but typically the politicians will never let the people decide on these things.
how would that work Eddie, I mean, should your vote count as equal to mine?
and should there be a referendum on everything, maybe on what day the bins go out or whether clubs that tolerate racism should be allowed in the premier league?
Lethal injection is barbaric, hence why medical companies from EU states are now refusing to send the necessary drugs to the US. One of the few things the UK has got right since the 60s is abolishing the death penalty.
Lethal injection is barbaric, hence why medical companies from EU states are now refusing to send the necessary drugs to the US. One of the few things the UK has got right since the 60s is abolishing the death penalty.
Not only is the death penalty barbaric, it's produced numerous irreversible miscarriages of justice where people have been wrongly murdered by the state, and the evidence shows that states which carry out the death penalty don't have murder rates any lower than those that do.
And it actually costs more to execute someone than it does to imprison someone for life - usually there is a very long and drawn out appeals process which is why people are in death row for so long.
Not only is the death penalty barbaric, it's produced numerous irreversible miscarriages of justice where people have been wrongly murdered by the state, and the evidence shows that states which carry out the death penalty don't have murder rates any lower than those that do.
And it actually costs more to execute someone than it does to imprison someone for life - usually there is a very long and drawn out appeals process which is why people are in death row for so long.
Not only is the death penalty barbaric, it's produced numerous irreversible miscarriages of justice where people have been wrongly murdered by the state, and the evidence shows that states which carry out the death penalty don't have murder rates any lower than those that do.
And it actually costs more to execute someone than it does to imprison someone for life - usually there is a very long and drawn out appeals process which is why people are in death row for so long.
So the death penalty makes no sense on any level.
Definitely not true in the US.
Pretty sure that fact refers to the US. Remember how long prisoners spend on death row anyway, and then add in all the legal costs. It's not hard to believe it costs more to execute someone.
It's probably less likely to apply to Saudi Arabia or some other primitive country where justice is even worse than the States.
it dots the i's and crosses the t's in an extended legal wrangle.
a case gets picked apart.
which i suppose the severest punishment should be.
checks and balances and all that.
the cost side of it isn't really an issue for me.
i don't support it on the grounds it saves or loses money.
Surely the fact that several people over the past 100 years and more have been wrongly convicted of crimes they didn't commit is enough to show that such an ultimate punishment as death is wrong? That's without even bringing up the idea of a state being able to kill people if it feels they've disobeyed their rules and that being ok.
