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I'm not sure what you are advocating. I think you are somehow suggesting an alternative advocacy for the death penalty is it being more humane than keeping someone alive in prison. I would hope the likes of Shipman, West etc. were hanging themselves for the shear horror of what they had done...

Like gauge an eye out, or stick them on the rack like the end of Braveheart? Quarter their bodies and display them at the four corners of the country? Oh yes, we can really take some serious leaps forward as a civilised society. Public hangings like in Iran to pop music? Brilliant. You're a...

Harold Shipman, Ian Huntley (attempted suicide), Ian Brady (attempted suicide), Fred West - all fancied death rather than life imprisonment.

Maybe ask Derek Bentley or Timothy Evans what it cost....

This is completely wrong. Read any study/article from the US regarding the huge cost of capital punishment. Some states are abolishing capital punishment for budgetary reasons alone. It's a complete myth that capital punishment is a minimal cost compared to life imprisonment...

As below, what is right with the death penalty? Its continually proven in the US to cost more than incarceration, it doesn't follow that it brings families any solace or closure. It is a retribution action rising from revenge rather than justice. It is the ultimate act of a State to commit the...

I'm not sure where I read it, but studies have shown that execution brings little comfort to families. Revenge is not an emotion that in anyway compensates loss or grief. In fact the long drawn out process to exact 'justice' prolongs the suffering to an end that actually brings no change or...

What about if a murderer murders a murderer, then the state murders the murderer that murdered a murderer, who would not be as bad?