Capital Punishment Questionnaire

I'll do it - pm me.

Effectiveness of capital punishment?
At killing people, do you mean?
Don't bother sending me the link, Amy.
I have no idea if capital punishment is 'effective' or not.
It is just wrong.

And on the day when an American journalist has been beheaded by a British jihadist, I think your post is particularly cruel and insensitive.

I think you've misunderstood my intentions,

I want to gather public opinion of those who saw capital punishment in place and its abolishment and how they feel about it, whether they think it is right in certain circumstances or whether they feel it is entirely wrong.

It's those opinions I am looking to gather, I'm sure if you had the opportunity to see the questionnaire you would understand the information I intend to gather, but you feeling uncomfortable about answering it is entirely fine and I respect that.

I'll do the questionnaire. Why not?

You can pm me too.

Really can't see how it has got anything to do with anything in the news.

and me also

I don't feel as though labelling me as cruel and insensitive is appropriate at all,

I do not have a full set of grandparents and using this site to help me get opinions from people that I would have been able to collect myself If I had, I didn't expect to have somebody speak to me like that as though I was being rude or offensive when I have done nothing of the sort.

I came here to look for those kind enough to offer their opinions as it was a part of history that I didn't see, luckily most have been more than happy to help but I feel the negativity was uneccessary and any issues aimed at what is in the news should be kept in a conversation specifically about that, I think you have things you'd like to say on the matter and are trying to express them anywhere, I don't feel this topic is where it should take place.

Amy You said in your first post that you were investigating the effectiveness of capital punishment and comparing the British and american legal system.
You didn't say anything about gathering opinion, which is an entirely different thing.

Yes, if you had taken the time to ask as appose to feeling offended, I could have made it clear that in comparing the American and English legal system I intend to investigate their effectiveness in deterring crime, as I personally feel the sentencing and law in this country is not as effective as that in America given that in America killers get life, whereas in this country they can get a minimum of 14 years and that be classed as 'life' for a crime just as horrific.

Oppose (not 'a')

What does the 16-49 mean as a choice in some of the questions?

Done it anyway.

Thank you, my friend would not be best impressed at all if she'd have spotted that just as you have! She tends to worry she might offend me when she corrects me but I always take everything on board so thanks

The length of a "life" sentence is a completely different subject to whether or not we believe in capital punishment.

I was just explaining to another lady that I had forgotten to remove that, I had two questionnaires, one for those 16-49 so I could gather the opinion of those who had never seen capital punishment and only know the way the law is today

Correct, but I'm incorporating quite a few different aspects of the law into my project, particularly the way in which people are punished and the prison they may be in etc.

Many people would like to see life sentences mean life, but still would not want to see the death penalty brought back.

Hi there amy092 you can send me the questionnaire.

It sounds a good project. Good luck with it.

Thank you jinglbellsfrocks

That again is something I'm going to discuss, I didn't want to go on and on about what I was covering and bore people But my essay has to be a minimum of 6,000 words so I am looking into a lot of different aspects, including obviously the things that can be put into place to avoid the death penalty but still act as a deterrent, and further into whether or not in the past the different methods have or haven't been effective

I'm in! Send me the questionnaire amy092

Thank you for the interest from everybody, I now have the exact number of responses I need and for the most part I am very grateful for the quick replies I had from people willing to help.

I'll be deleting the conversation in 10/15 minutes as I don't want to take the space of much more interesting conversations!

Again thank you for all the help!