I totally disagree with your view on this subject.
I do admit that killing a person guilty of a murder is 'uncivilised' but I'm afraid to say that, in this day and age, we have to enforce more severe punishments to prevent crime from occurring in the first place.
Check out this link, a report by the BBC stating that new changes in murder case punishments could see some murderers out in less than 10 years.
With changes like this, it isn't surprising that murder is becoming more common.
If capital punishment came back, i bet any money that murder rates would dramatically fall in the first year of it's introduction.
People are no longer afraid of going to jail. As political correctness has gone crazy, prisons are more like a home from home. The Guardian states, "Prison is no longer a deterrent. It is merely an occupational hazard." Drug dealers and prostitutes come and go as they please, breakfast in bed, TV, free phones and wages are other comfortable advantages. Clearly, crime DOES pay.
If potential criminals were faced with something really frightening, such as, the loss of their life, there is no way they would commit the crime.
I do accept that in some cases a misjudgement would be highly immoral, and that it is hard to assess the full extent of a crime and the difficulties faced when determining which crime should warrant a death sentence. But even the slightest chance of receiving the death penalty would scare these cowardly criminals so much they would refrain from committing such offences.
It really is about time that Britain toughened up, we are such a soft country that some immigrants deliberately come here to go to our jails because they are just doss houses.
Bring back the death penalty, bring down crime and empty out the jails so we can start punishing other crimes more severely, and then maybe people really will learn that crime doesn't pay.
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