[andrewb]

I am against the death penalty.

Those of you for it, lets say your a judge or law maker. Could you really honestly live with yourself if someone who was wrongfully accused got murdered by the state? Currently if someone is wrongly convicted they might have lost 10 years of their lives in jail, but they can carry on living the rest of them.

I don't buy the argument that says "Why should we pay for murderers in jail". You can't put a price on life. I don't care what the individual has done, why should we stoop to their level and kill? State sanctioned murder is leading down a path I really don't want to follow.

At the end of the day I'm quite happy to have greater punishments and more money pumped into rehabilitation. My problem is that if JUST ONE person gets murdered and is later proved innocent, the whole argument of the death penalty crashes down on itself. It's sick, its brutal, we're not animals, and its a long time since we were cavemen, so lets not introduce barbaric murder into British society.