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Witham: Politician welcomes debate on death penalty

9:20am Sunday 7th August 2011 in News

Witham: Politician welcomes debate on death penalty Witham: Politician welcomes debate on death penalty

Changes to Parliamentary petitions which mean the death penalty could be debated have been welcomed by a local politician.

Witham MP Priti Patel believes capital punishment for the most serious crimes would act as a detterant.

From Thursday the Government will publish e-petitions online and any which receive 100,000 signatures will be eligible for debate in the house.

Blogger Guido Fawkes pledged to petition that the death penalty be re-introduced for child and cop killers.

Ms Patel said: “I have always said, as I did when asked at my selection meeting, that having capital punishment available in respect of the most heinous and evil crimes may act as a deterrent to prevent other serious criminal acts from taking place.

See this week's Times for the full story.

Comments(4)

6079 Smith W says...
9:34am Sun 7 Aug 11

What an utterly pointless exercise. There are numerous treaty obligations that make a return of the death penalty impossible, but here they are, with the economy in a mess, wasting time on something they can't do anything about. Anyway, somebody name me a civilised country that practices the death penalty?

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jut1972 says...
10:06am Sun 7 Aug 11

Anyone who signs a death penalty petition deserves to be shot.

No.. hold on.

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Bitbytr_1 says...
8:51pm Sun 7 Aug 11

@6079 Smith W - At the risk of incurring ill-thought out ridicule, I will point out the US still practices the death penalty in a majority of its states.

That isn't to say I agree with it. In all aspects, anyway... It's not a simple matter that can be discussed in terms of black or white. And I am not being racist - although that IS an issue when looking at the stats.

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brain1 says...
12:33pm Mon 8 Aug 11

I await this woman’s next pronouncement that she supports the summary execution squads of police to shoot to kill civilians without trial.

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