Prison overcrowding & Death Penalty

[A Soul's Bounds]

Can a hitman get the death penalty in any nation in the world?

 

[treebeard9]

i dont think you know what they do in prison?
they do do manual labour its not a walk in the park for them
and saying that if you kill somone you deserve to die is a very narrow minded and stupid response

 

[Ajay!]

Right i live in britain, where this is currently a huge overcrowding in our prisons. And as a result, criminals are often not sent to prison or given shorter sentences than usual. One serial rapist got only 3 years in prison due to his space being needed.
Anyway one way to reduce over crowding would be to re-instate the death penalty, as then maximum security prisons won't be needed as much and their spaces would be freed up.
Another random fact, the average prisoner costs between £20 000 and £50 000, they also don't have to pay taxes and are costing the taxpayers roughly £16 million per year. My solution would be to make prisoners do manual labour while in prison to cover their costs as they have to do in other countries.
Anyway I'd like to hear your opinions on this and any suggestions you have to ease prison overcrowding.

It isn't murderers and rapists getting free'd it's petty things like burglary and car thiefs etc. Which yeah is wrong but they're not letting out 25,000 Rapists, murderers etc.

 

[Omfgscar]

Bring back the gallows...
I think if the prisoner is sentanced to life well then they should just hang him...

 

[WiZzi1]

3 years because there is no room. Give him the nice old black dude named bubba, he will dance for him =D

 

[samnoz]

So if you had a child, if they were murdered, you would want the murderer to be hanged wouldn't you. I don't see it as a stupid view, its a primal instinct, and nothing we can do can get rid of it. And some rapist's and murderers have been released early due to overcrowding.

 

[blood_angel]

Honestly, the way I feel about if you kill someone, you die. If you kill them by dragging them down a cliff then you get hoisted up by helicopter and drug up and down a cliff til you die. Then all these killers, if they had the urge to kill would maybe not. Although you see some killers that are just out of their minds and what ever happens to them may not phase them. Also, I think that if you get put on death row there needs to be nothing over 6 months that you wait to die because at the moment, there are ways to get a new court case and then you get another year or what to live because you kept getting new cases. Now, from what ive heard they got rid of the thing where you can get new lawyers so that fixes that. But...now days for some reason court cases still last like 6 years or somthing like that. Basicly, if you dont understand what I said above..I said, death row needs to be much quicker and punishment far more severe.

 

[samnoz]

Yes but organizing those punishments would waste government time and money. Although it would lower the murder rate i expect.