does capital punishment still happen in the United Kingdom?
102896
NO, the UK in october 2003 finally acceded (protocol 13) the final abolition, in any circumstance, of death sentence
35246
No, as the only industrialized country to still have the death penalty we have the highest crime rate out of any of them.
1151083
i think to make murder punishable by murder is a joke, what is the difference between the criminal and the law if both are commiting murder. also if i were facing life in prison i would much prefer the death penalty and im sure many people on death row see it that way, fortunatly in my country we abolished the death penalty long ago and now killers have to live with their nightmares for the rest of their lives rather than getting an easy way out. we are supposed to be promoting modern liberal western values to the rest of the world but it is not very good when the wests leading nation itself cannot follow these ideals
43087
According to the figures on the source site, death penalty states have higher murder rates. So it doesn't seem to be much of a deterrent.
843963
Nope, murder sanctioned by the government and police always goes unpunished... unless it's to boost political support, in which case they get made into sacrifices for public approval.
321789
suicide ceased to be illegal in the united Kingdom following the Suicide Act 1961
960032
It depends who THE PEOPLE are.If you mean everyone the world or England as a whole then no I don't think so.If you mean Muslims then definitely NO labour are to scared to put sanctions on any culture but christian because they are so P.C the British  are the most accepting culture of differences for example we don't ban hi-jabs like Holland,or France who have banned them in schools.personally I believe they are degrading to women like they are second class citizens but that's my opinion who am i to force that on anyone, the same way certain sects of Muslims feel they can tell me what to think and feel by killing innocent people.  Muslims or any other religion , no body has the right including the labour government to kill for belief which are not the same as there own.
12802
Capitol punishment does not work as it is now. Punishments must be public, swift and severe in order to deter. Public hangings detered.\n\nPay per view electric chair a week after your last appeal...say give you 1 year tops to finish the process. Now THAT would work.\n\nOf course, the innate flaws to our "best attourney wins" court system creates the potential in which innocent people may get executed before the time in which their innocence may be proven. This is the unfortunate finality that comes with capital punishment. But capital punishment can work. However, without swift, severe punishment that is viewable by future criminals, capital punishment will not work, and does not work in our society (20 years on death row? ridiculous)\n\nI found myself torn in the case of Tookie Williams recently on this very topic. If Tookie was executed 23 years ago, there would not have been public outcry to save him. Sure he maintained that he was innocent of the murder of the 4 people he was convicted of. But who really believed it (clearly not the jury), and furthermore, that was simply the one crime he was brought to court on. God knows you don't form one of the most prolific gangs our time has known without taking out a few people in your way, and a few people for the hell of it probably too.  Beyond that, the Crips that he founded have gone on to kill likely in the thousands. So he should have been executed (provided you believe in capital punishment to begin with), no question, and it should have been a walk out of the court room straight to the chair. \n\nBut our system is flawed, we let him sit on death row for more than 2 decades and during that time he may have rethought his life. He did some great works trying to use his position to influence kids to make the right choices, the choices he didn't make. Now we choose to execute someone that is in the midst of making a positive influence of our kids instead of the thug that brought many children to hell with him.\n\nIf you execute him in 1982, many good works don't get done, but if you do it publicly, you may send a more real message, and save many kids and their victims for years to come. After 20 years, we probably shouldn't have executed him at all. It was a waste, two fold.
716116
Well a few states here still utilize this ultimate punishment, I guess it should be a national issue and should probably be brought to a vote.\n\nUnless Parliament can actually discuss this matter calmly, rationally, and use public opinion to guide their final decision.\n\nCould this happen? I don't know...
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I doubt if there has ever been one. If there has, I have not heard of it.\n\nThe British establishment does not work like that. If necessary they turn a blind eye, but they never forgive if they can possibly help it. Look how hard it was to campaign for a pardon for the traumatised World War I soldiers who were shot.
1014529
Absolutely.  There are only certain crimes that carry the death penalty and there are a number of reviews that take place before an execution takes place.  Once the person has been found guilty and the reviews have taken place, the punishment fits the crime.
507694
I am not that old, but I remember this cropping up on the news from time to time.\n\nI would hope that the situation would have got more understanding. There is greater understanding of people with learning diffulculties and these factors are taken into consideration more often.\n\nHowever, the British legal system is far from flawless (just look at Deirdre Barlow!! - joke). One of the biggest shocks to post-war Britain was that its justice system was occasionally incompetent and that the word of a policeman was not always reliable - as in the cases of the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six.\n\nUnfortunately it all comes down to how skilfully the barristers argue their cases, what the witnesses say and the personalities of the juries. Although it is the best we have got, it is still all too hit and miss for my liking.
884151
If the severity of punishment were a real and viable tool, then the death penalty should have worked years ago.  The fact of that matter is, it deters no one.  People still commit murder all of the time. All you can do (after the fact) is lock them up without possibility of parole.
662966
I don't believe in the death penalty.\nToo many Innocent people have been executed for something they did not do.There are two infamous cases here in Australia where the murderers/rapist were caught red handed within days and admitted they did it,both these individuals have tried to commit suicide while in prison,their crimes against another human being were horrendous and had a great impact on our country not just the state in which it took place,in a case like this I think the judge should be able to in-force the death penalty.\nSome people still think the last man hanged here was innocent and it was done for political reasons.
4117
Correction, more than a hundred countries still have death penalties, some still using firing squads, public hangings, stoning and three still chop off the victim's heads.\nFor Christians the problem is one of bending "Thou shall not kill."  For others it may or may not be a moral issue.\nPersonally, I do not see any moral action in killing a human to punish him or her for killing another.
138394
both allow capital punishment.  until recently both allowed for the execution of people who had committed crimes as a juvenile, i believe.
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Any crime that is punishable in the US and UK by one or more years imprisonment upon conviction\n\nOR \n\nConspiring to commit, aiding or abetting the commission of a crime that is punishable by one or more years imprisonment in both countries upon conviction.\n\nhttp://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/USExtradition_210503.pdf