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Australia Should Re-Introduce Capital Punishment
Should Australia bring back the death penalty? Perhaps for criminals who receive 70+ years in jail? Or for the more sadistic crimes, such as mutilation and child rape/murder?
 Dan4096  30 Mar 2008 07:53
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No. I think anyone who is naughty should do at least 5 rounds in the ring with a Kangaroo, to a maximum of 15 rounds for those other nasty things mentioned.
 
 keepmindok  14 Sep 2008 10:55
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I think that CP (Capital Punishment) Should be re-introduced to Australia, because CP is not only a way of abolishing Australia of serious criminals but it is also one more deterrent for killers not to commit a crime, (Not that they would think about it if they were going to kill them in the first place.) But i think under some extreme circumstances as seen on September 11 2001 and also the Bali Bombings, there is no other punishment suitable for criminals of there nature than the death penalty.

I think that multi-murders, terrorists and Extremist should ultimately receive the death penalty for there crimes. I also Agree with Hidell above that there has to be extra steps to the investigation of the crime for CP to be persuade as a method as punishment and it can't just be decided at supreme court level.

So yes i think that CP should be re-introduced to Australia!
 
 F18Aviator  31 Mar 2008 14:56
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Although I wouldn't like to see it imposed routinely, or casually, even for serious crimes such as murder, I do think that capital punishment should be available in extreme cases. Examples of perpetrators I think should be considered for execution would include serial killers or those guilty of particularly sadistic murders.

To guard against over-use of it, though, I think there should be some extra layers of process that the prosecution would have to go through before the death penalty was imposed. Perhaps the victim's family should have to consent to it, for example. And there should be a separate trial to determine if the death penalty will be imposed, even after guilt has already been determined. Perhaps the jury should also have to agree unanimously to the death sentence.
 
 Hidell  31 Mar 2008 02:08
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If you haven't heard of even one then you must be pretty ignorant. Google something like "capital punishment mistakes" and I'm sure you will be bombarded with examples.
 
 boffy_j  09 Jun 2008 08:30
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NO! Even now they are discovering that people they killed in America 40-50 years ago were actually innocent, even some who had pleaded guilty.
 
 gogo303ng  09 Jun 2008 02:20
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 Could you give me a case please? I've not heard of one capital case involving the death penalty where the person was found innocent after he/she was put to death.
by  codeman
 09 Jun 2008 02:27
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