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Quote by: jose look at the jail sentance for rape in UK compared to the sentance for murder and youll see why many rapes end in murder |
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I don'r believe that there is more child-murder / abuse today than there was 20 years ago - I'd go along with the belief that it is reported more often to the authorities and also that it gets more media exposure.
The alternative, that people have become more likely to murder / abuse children sounds just too much like tabloid fantasy to me.
I'm basically against the death penalty. I think there are very very few cases where it can be justified, and too much potential for miscarriage of justice and reactionary stuff. I mean, that if say the death penalty had been around at the time of the Jamie Bulger case, instead of the then Home secretary Michael Howard sticking his nose into the judiciary to try and ge teh sentance pushed up to life (along with those pathetic tabloids again), he could have been calling for the death penalty. We don't need it. Most of out European neighbours manage to get by without a death penalty (and without breaking human rights) okay, why should we be any different? I don't believe the death penalty serves as a deterrent either. Again I am yet to see any facts demonstrating it's deterrent power.