GCSE Speaking Assessment for Capital Punishment
There are several reasons as to why I believe Capital Punishment should be legalized in Britain once more and I will explain why in due course. Firstly, I would like to mention the different variations of a life sentence in prison because there is not one set length of time a criminal can spend locked up for the same class of crime.
A life sentence is given to those whose offense is particularly grave; for example by law it is mandatory for a Judge to give a life sentence to all criminals who are found guilty of murder. The Judge has to then decide whether to set a Discretionary Sentence where a minimum term is given, a Mandatory life sentence for which the starting point is 25 years or a Whole Life order. Any criminals sentenced to a Whole Life Order will never be released from prison so what, I argue, is the point in keeping them locked up for years with no hope of release?
Keeping someone in prison on a Whole Life Order is a waste of time, money and space. The average annual cost of keeping a prisoner is around £40,000; say if someone was kept in prison for the rest of their life – for example 50 years – that amount would mutate grossly to £2,000,000, add the additional £65,000 which is needed to actually imprison someone in the first place and the price over these criminal’s heads is massive.
Furthermore the United Kingdom’s prison system is vastly over crowded, making it ever more costly and time consuming to rehabilitate those who have been deemed fit for release after they have endured their sentence. This is why I believe that bringing back Capital Punishment is a rational and useful solution to our prison problem.
Certainly I can see the enormous controversy surrounding this opinion, effectively murdering a murderer seems immoral and unjust however I argue that it is not such an outrageous suggestion. I most definitely agree that the death penalty should only be used in the most extreme of cases, for example those who have been sentenced to a Whole
A life sentence is given to those whose offense is particularly grave; for example by law it is mandatory for a Judge to give a life sentence to all criminals who are found guilty of murder. The Judge has to then decide whether to set a Discretionary Sentence where a minimum term is given, a Mandatory life sentence for which the starting point is 25 years or a Whole Life order. Any criminals sentenced to a Whole Life Order will never be released from prison so what, I argue, is the point in keeping them locked up for years with no hope of release?
Keeping someone in prison on a Whole Life Order is a waste of time, money and space. The average annual cost of keeping a prisoner is around £40,000; say if someone was kept in prison for the rest of their life – for example 50 years – that amount would mutate grossly to £2,000,000, add the additional £65,000 which is needed to actually imprison someone in the first place and the price over these criminal’s heads is massive.
Furthermore the United Kingdom’s prison system is vastly over crowded, making it ever more costly and time consuming to rehabilitate those who have been deemed fit for release after they have endured their sentence. This is why I believe that bringing back Capital Punishment is a rational and useful solution to our prison problem.
Certainly I can see the enormous controversy surrounding this opinion, effectively murdering a murderer seems immoral and unjust however I argue that it is not such an outrageous suggestion. I most definitely agree that the death penalty should only be used in the most extreme of cases, for example those who have been sentenced to a Whole