[joeysteele]

I swing back and forwards with this issue, taking on lot's of views from others and also keeping an open mind of my own.
I will ignore involving war crimes because to me that is a whole separate issue, war crimes arise from the war atmosphere as much as for any other reason.
2 sections or more of peoples or countries locked in war with each other will be filled almost 100% with hate against the other and will almost inevitably open up cruel and brutal deaths taking place.

As for henious crimes against a person in a State where no war is the scenario,that's a different thing altogether in my opinion.
Taking someone's life or multiple lives for selfish or reasons even being unknown as to why do require strong punishments.
I have overall always been more against the death penalty than for it but I am really fed up of people who murder a child or children,rapists who murder several Women and others who go out in killing sprees getting to live some way their lives after totally destroying and removing the life of the person they have killed and causing also great trauma and massive grief to their loved ones left too.

I would want to see a criteria for the death penalty of a very large list of boxes that ALL had to be ticked for it ever to be carried out but I do believe some people should lose their right to life for how many lives they themselves have taken or the way too that they did take the life or lives they did too.

Presently we lock people up and that is the only punishment from the state they get, the loss of their freedom,maybe prison should be harder for those who commit such horrific and unnecessary murders.
I do though know I could be persuaded that some murderers, should warrant the death penalty.

100% certain is the hard one to get around definitely in the vast majority of cases of murder but it can be clearly the case, this year we have had a brutal murder of someone,unarmed and doing nothing wrong at all that was in all effect filmed.
There could be no doubt there at all.

It is not the States job to take life but it is the States duty to ensure lives are not taken by others from people just living their own lives.
If someone kills others then it should be an option that could be enacted,I would hope no one would ever get the death penalty but I would not bat an eyelid at it being used for the perpetrators of the murder I mentioned above.

It is barbaric,I agree with that but what defence do women have against rapists and children against those abusing them and then killing them too.
Those victims after losing their lives so brutally and unnecessarily have no futures and for me in certainly a minority cases,neither should their killers.

This is a subject I wrestle with a lot, how would I vote if there was a referendum as to the death penalty at least being an option again, with very strict and a very long criteria to be filled,I don't know.
I feel sure though I can be persuaded either way and no doubt will wrestle with this issue for all my life too.