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Thread: If the UK were to bring back capital punishment what methods would likely be used?

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    If the death penalty were to return to using capital punishment in the UK, i would most likely be offered a job within the UK Government to become an executioner for the state. The main purpose for this is a YouGov Poll Vote with a 53% in favour of execution for child killers, cop killers, rapists and terrorists. The method of execution would retain hanging. This is up for debate after Brexit when the UK leaves the European Union on March 29, 2019.

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    Tory MP asks government to consider bringing back death penalty

    Former minister John Hayes urges justice secretary to consider ‘potential merits’ of hanging violent criminals

    A Conservative MP has called on the government to reintroduce hanging for people who commit violent crimes.

    John Hayes, MP for South Holland and the Deepings, and a former minister, asked justice secretary David Gauke to consider the “potential merits” of the death penalty.

    The option of capital punishment “should be available to the courts” in cases such as that of Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood, he said.

    Masood was shot dead by armed officers after mowing down pedestrians and fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer in March 2017, but Mr Hayes suggested that had Masood survived it would have been “appropriate” for him to be hanged.

    In a written parliamentary question, the MP, who served as a minister in various departments between 2010 and 2018, asked the justice secretary to “make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to reintroduce the death penalty to tackle violent crime”.

    Responding, justice minister Edward Argar said the government “opposes the use of the death penalty in all circumstances and has no plans to reintroduce it”.

    Pointing out that the UK is campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty globally, he said: “There is no evidence that capital punishment acts as a deterrent to violent crime. Furthermore, the reintroduction of the death penalty would bring with it the very real risk that some innocent people would die.”

    But Mr Hayes told Lincolnshire Live: “We have got an issue in Britain with very serious crime.

    “We have had a number of serious crimes, the murder rates increase and barely a week goes by without hearing about some horrific child murder or old people being attacked and killed.

    “Many of my constituents say that’s partly because we don’t respond appropriately.

    “It seems to me there really needs to be a fitting punishment.”

    He added: “I say capital punishment should be a sentence available to the courts but the death penalty should not be mandatory – that’s always been my position.

    “If you look at the Westminster Bridge attacker, he was shot in cold blood after someone had taken a proper decision to stop him.

    “If he had survived, I think most of the British public would have been OK if he had received a fair trial and been hanged – most people would deem that appropriate.”

    Mr Hayes also suggested that serial killers Fred West and Harold Shipman could have received the death penalty, saying both had killed themselves “almost as if they knew that was the right thing for them to do”.

    Capital punishment ended in the UK in 1965. The last people to be hanged were Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans, who were executed for the murder of John West in Seaton, Cumberland.

    The option of the death penalty remained in UK law until 1998 when it was completely abolished.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8615731.html

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    This week, the British Government said there no action to be taken with the re-introduction of the death penalty. The murder rate is up to 107 since January 1 in London alone. The number comes gangland shootings and rival gang stabbings. 5 in 6 days, all were black males in there 20's or younger. The Metropolitan Police asks the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that all gang members and terrorists who are convicted at trial, would face a mandatory Life sentence or Life without Parole in certain circumstances.

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