Summary: Keeping The Death Penalty
The death penalty
Introduction
The death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1969 and was later followed by the Northern /Ireland on the 25th of July 19973 , it was abolished due to the Britain signing the 13th Protocol which didn’t allow the death penalty under any circumstances, The last death penalty was given to Peter Antony on the 13th of August in 1964 . One of the other reasons was due to Timothy Evans who was a young man who was hanged on the 9th of March 1950.He was charged of the murder of his wife and baby daughter which was uncalled for because sixteen years later he was found out to be innocent ,But it was already too late as he had already been erroneously hanged .It was found out that his co-tenant John Reginald Christie …show more content…
These are just some of a major list of killers in the UK since the death penalty has been removed.
Serial killers
Frederick West was a serial killer between 1967 and 1987.Him and his wife Rose West tortured, raped and ruthlessly killed at least 11 young women. Rose West even murdered Fred’s first daughter Charmaine West whilst Fred was in prison serving a theft charge. Most of the murders happened between 1973 and 1979 .The couple were later charged in 1994 and found guilty on 10 counts of murder but it was already too late as Fred had killed himself 10 months earlier , If the death penalty was not abolished would this have happened ?
Dr Harold Fredrick Shipman was a British doctor and was one of the most prolific serial killers ever recorded history of proven murders with more than 250 murders to his name on the 31st of j January 2000 he was found guilty for only 15 murders and was sentenced only to life in prison .2 years later it was found that 80% of his murders where women who he was meant to be “taking care of”. Dr Shipman later killed himself on January 13th 2004 whilst in …show more content…
But if the death penalty was brought back would-be criminals would think twice before committing a offense punishable by death and due to this the society would gain security an example of this is China. Last year alone over 2000 people were killed due to the death penalty , even though china has one of the greatest populations in the world it has one of the lowest due to its strict laws.
The death penalty is still in use today in some states In America, But there is a trend to all the death row in mates7 out of 10 are black , so is death penalty fair ? From the research done by Bryan Stevenson more black males are killed on death row every year than any other race .So is the American criminal justice system fair? Because to me it doesn’t look like that and could this happen if the death penalty was brought back to England? If this did happen in England it could result in many people being unfairly killed due to the colour of their skin or where they come from
Introduction
The death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1969 and was later followed by the Northern /Ireland on the 25th of July 19973 , it was abolished due to the Britain signing the 13th Protocol which didn’t allow the death penalty under any circumstances, The last death penalty was given to Peter Antony on the 13th of August in 1964 . One of the other reasons was due to Timothy Evans who was a young man who was hanged on the 9th of March 1950.He was charged of the murder of his wife and baby daughter which was uncalled for because sixteen years later he was found out to be innocent ,But it was already too late as he had already been erroneously hanged .It was found out that his co-tenant John Reginald Christie …show more content…
These are just some of a major list of killers in the UK since the death penalty has been removed.
Serial killers
Frederick West was a serial killer between 1967 and 1987.Him and his wife Rose West tortured, raped and ruthlessly killed at least 11 young women. Rose West even murdered Fred’s first daughter Charmaine West whilst Fred was in prison serving a theft charge. Most of the murders happened between 1973 and 1979 .The couple were later charged in 1994 and found guilty on 10 counts of murder but it was already too late as Fred had killed himself 10 months earlier , If the death penalty was not abolished would this have happened ?
Dr Harold Fredrick Shipman was a British doctor and was one of the most prolific serial killers ever recorded history of proven murders with more than 250 murders to his name on the 31st of j January 2000 he was found guilty for only 15 murders and was sentenced only to life in prison .2 years later it was found that 80% of his murders where women who he was meant to be “taking care of”. Dr Shipman later killed himself on January 13th 2004 whilst in …show more content…
But if the death penalty was brought back would-be criminals would think twice before committing a offense punishable by death and due to this the society would gain security an example of this is China. Last year alone over 2000 people were killed due to the death penalty , even though china has one of the greatest populations in the world it has one of the lowest due to its strict laws.
The death penalty is still in use today in some states In America, But there is a trend to all the death row in mates7 out of 10 are black , so is death penalty fair ? From the research done by Bryan Stevenson more black males are killed on death row every year than any other race .So is the American criminal justice system fair? Because to me it doesn’t look like that and could this happen if the death penalty was brought back to England? If this did happen in England it could result in many people being unfairly killed due to the colour of their skin or where they come from