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There’s been a bit of a debate (I say a debate, I mean some rubbish in The Sun) about whether the death penalty should be brought back into use in the UK. I’m guessing this is all in reaction to that bloke who killed those prostitutes in Suffolk and that other nutter who killed that girl outside her house - who had the worst defence in history when he claimed he’d had sex with her when she was dead, not alive.

To me, re-introduing the death penalty would be one of the worst ideas in the whole sorry history of bad ideas. Lots of people who have been sentenced to death have later been found to be innocent - which is alarming, to say the least.

How would you feel if your brother, father or son was found guilty of killing somebody and then told they must pay for their crime with their life?

And then how would you feel if they were found innocent after a few years?

What we need in this country is fairly obvious - more police on the streets, parents to teach their children about respect and this whol "nanny culture" disappearing down the drain. I guarantee that if these three things were to happen, hardly anybody would be calling for the death penalty.

Except for The Sun, of course.

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