http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution#Specific_examples
They should never bring this back.

yes they should bring back hanging for idiots posting stupid comments on IMDb.

And bring back drawing and quartering as well while youre at it.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

I think not.
"There he is. Half Iago, half Fu Manchu, all bastard."

My view is that the government (a group of other humans) hasn't got the right to take your life against your will, under any circumstances. It's enough that you give the government the power to imprison you. It keeps people safe from known murderers and the like. Clearly the death penalty isn't better at that.
It's important to think of this as if you or your child are the person sentenced. As no system is perfect (including DNA matching by the way) there will be some innocent people put into prison under the harshest of sentences. In the unfortunate case that the evidence points mostly toward you or your child, do you want the government to be able to snap that neck, in what will most likely be a carnival/circus atmosphere?
Of course, you can rest easy knowing the rotting remains will be moved to the correct grave if innocence is later proven. But the dead stay dead.

No to the death penalty from me You can't always get it right, and I would rather have 1000 guilty men go free than one innocent life taken.
Also, your comparison re: "Modes of transport kill people, but we still use them!" is a bit off To die in an accident is natural selection; to be sentenced to death by the justice system implies favouring odds and a considered decision. As far as I'm concerned, no human being has the right to decide whether another one dies or not; if we level that charge against murderers then we must also follow it ourselves, otherwise it makes it seem like a violent death is a perfectly reasonable thing to ordain, if you believe you have due cause.
Born when she kissed me, died when she left me, lived whilst she loved me

Hi,
Here is my tuppenny worth for what it is worth(excuse the pun,Not intended)
The power that gives life is the only power that should take life and anyone who brakes that law, in whatever circumstances, do themselves a disservice as they will have to carry that onto their karma and do whatever it takes to cleanse their karma in future.Having said that, man made laws as you know vary from country to country and in state to state within those countries,people will put their individual connotation on the death penalty, whether it is seen,rightly or wrongly,as a punishment or revenge.By the way I am NOT a religious fanatic as a matter of fact I have NO time for MAN MADE RELIGION whatsoever!!!

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YesRight. Well, my chip and I both have far better things to do than indulge the juvenile bickering of some obsolescent jobsworth.
So - remembering that this is a public forum, and to refresh the thread subject; if any other contributor has some interesting observation to post regarding the death-penalty and its associated issues, please now feel free to weigh-in.

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Cheap trick, lawyer-man. Very cheap indeed.

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