Capital Punishment

No, it's not. Miscarriages of justice are not unknown.

I do sometimes wonder, though, if someone is convicted of more than one heinous crime, why their sentence should be current.
A consecutive sentence of sufficient length would mean they will not be released and cause terror again.

Rapist Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been handed 36 life sentences, with a minimum term of 32 years, after committing “violent and brutal sexual offences” against a dozen women.
They are to run concurrently.

There is a great video on Twitter of Ian Hislop on QT when Patel was Home Sec, demolishing any arguments for death penalty.

The party is apparently intent on a path of self distraction.

NOT acceptable to me..

30p Lee doing a nice job of distraction, probably the main reason for his appointment to office. This has been discussed on Twitter as you would expect, and there are many reasons, apart from the moral aspect of state executions, why capital punishment should never be considered.

- juries are often unwilling to convict on a capital offence such as murder because they do not wish to have someone executed, therefore guilty parties may not be convicted.

- statistics show that it is not a deterrent; those USA states with the death penalty also have the highest rates of violent crime.

- it is not a deterrent as criminals do not expect to be caught.

That is without the risk of wrongful convictions.

An MP apparently thinks it is Whitewave.

Farzanah

Does anyone believe that this can ever be an acceptable punishment in a modern civilised society?

No.

Personally I don't. I cannot believe it's right to take someone's life, even if they are evil. But a life sentence should mean just that. Sometimes we are too lenient.

Of course not.