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Do you support the death penalty?

The death penalty or capital punishment is the punishment by death for a crime. Currently 58 countries worldwide allow the death penalty (including the U.S.) while 97 countries have outlawed it. The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished the death penalty for murder in Great Britain (the death penalty for murder survived in Northern Ireland until 1973). The act replaced the penalty of death with a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life.

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Response rates from 1.4m UK voters.

39%
Yes
61%
No
23%
Yes
56%
No
15%
Yes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence
3%
No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence
1%
Yes, but the victim’s family should decide the punishment
2%
No, too many people are innocently convicted

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 @9868V6Manswered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but for child sex offences and animal abuse and cruelty and sex offences against animals.

 @982MF94answered…4yrs4Y

Only if it’s a horrific crime with undeniable evidence AND permission from the criminal for the death penalty as it’s their body

 @9M4KN5R answered…2yrs2Y

There has to be undeniable proof, too many mistakes have happened previously. Either that or prisons need sorting as not enough space for criminals as is.

 @9L757Y5answered…2yrs2Y

No, I feel that inflicting death on any human is hypocritical as a punishment, saying that nobody can kill as it is a cardinal sin, but then going and killing the person who killed. In my eyes that would mean anybody involved in the decision of the death sentence would also then be described as murderers.

 @99QPPQBanswered…3yrs3Y

murderers and pedophiles should get it

 @96HZKQ2answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but only for mass-murderers, war criminals and terrorists

 @9LZBQMQanswered…2yrs2Y

Convicts with a life sentence should serve five years before termination, and if they are found to have been wrongly convicted then the prosecution that resulted in the death would suffer the same punishment.

 @9M6LGNSanswered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but only for the most heinous of crimes and repeat offenders. Money saved should go to the victims' families and to community support projects.

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