After the recent Suffolk murders, there have been a lot of angry letters written to newspaper letters pages demanding the Death Penalty be reinstated in the UK, anyone who’s been reading me for any length of time can probably guess where I stand on this.
However, I felt that it was time that I put my own opposition to this into more definite terms by writing something up in a bit more detail. This has turned into something more resembling a short essay than a blog post, so, I’ve popped it onto my essays page rather than taking up the blog with it.
You can find my thoughts on it here: Why I oppose Capital Punishment.
PeterClothier says:
I’m with you, point by point, on this one. Sadly, the death penalty has not yet been abolished here in the US, though its use is in decline for many of the reasons you describe in your essay. Too many Americans still loudly proclaim their faith in this barbaric custom.
26 February 2008, 1:04 am