Do you support the death penalty? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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Last time I looked a majority of Brits support the death penalty. Which personally I've always found quite disturbing considering all the problems with it.

But 5 mins on any subreddit and you have people frothing at the mouth to hang every criminal.

Which if even more disturbing.

So what do you think?

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[-] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Our justice system isn't reliable enough to kill people as punishment. Plus life in prison is probably a worse punishment if that's your goal.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly!

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