Executing Axel Rudakubana Would Be An Act Of Kindness
If we put a vote to the British people on whether to bring back the death penalty for child rapists and murderers a majority of my fellow citizens would vote YES. This has always been the case and the reason no politician would ever ask us, especially after the EU referendum.
I am in favour of creating a new death penalty system fit for the modern world. Not to punish or for revenge, but for common sense reasons. A dead murderer will never offend again and it is cheaper than locking someone up for life.
If we sentence a criminal to 'life in prison' with no opportunity for release, are we not torturing this individual until their last day? Is this humane? Is this the compassionate society we tell ourselves we want? Animals are treated better than this, yet we treat humans this way.
Imagine waking up daily knowing you will never see the outside world again. Never to be free, and no second chance coming your way. Mental torture. Some people may think this is a fitting punishment and the more we distress the prisoner the better – but it does not achieve anything positive. We need less emotion in this matter and more common sense.
Everything comes down to money and this issue is no different. Prisons are expensive, very expensive - an average prisoner costs the taxpayer approximately £45K a year. I wonder how many would stop committing crimes if we gave them this money instead? The answer would be zero. Most criminality is not about money but culture, personality traits and a lack of personal responsibility.
A serious violent criminal needs a high-security prison and these cost more, approximately £85K a year. Ian Brady, the Moors Murderer from the 1960s, died in prison after 50 years – he cost the taxpayer £14 million, maybe even more. Is this value for money? We paid for the pleasure of torturing him for over half a century.
Allow me to state what the death penalty is not going to achieve. There is no evidence that lunatics and fanatics stop committing crimes because of a death penalty deterrent – but it will affect some of the sane ones. My argument is not that we will have fewer atrocities - only that we will have zero reoffending, a better sense of justice, and huge cost savings.
People rightly raise concerns when the topic of bringing back the death penalty is raised. These concerns fall into two categories: innocent people being executed, and the moral argument that killing people is wrong. Both are valid points.
Innocent people were hanged in the UK for crimes they did not commit. This is a tragedy and a fact. I am not arguing to introduce the same old flawed system but a new one, fit for the 21st century. Technology has come a long way since the 1960s and we can design a system that removes error and corruption.
How about we only consider execution for people caught in the act on CCTV or filmed on a mobile phone? Maybe 10 people have to witness the atrocity and identify the offender. And of course, we would want solid DNA evidence involved. In this scenario, would you be happy with the death penalty?
Historically, evidence was interfered with by police to secure convictions so we must ensure this cannot happen in any new system. It would be impossible to fake CCTV footage and create witnesses willing to appear in court. The planting of DNA evidence would be an easier task. I would make it a capital offence to interfere with a death penalty investigation and court case. This would mean police officers who tamper with evidence would be executed for attempted murder - no more incentive.
The moral argument is easy to dismantle - the State has always killed people and continues to do so. We train our soldiers to kill – they do this on our behalf. We give guns to police officers and people die. We deny expensive NHS medical treatments – this leads to death. We fund the abortion of 250,000 babies a year – a quarter of a million innocent lives murdered every year. The State kills and does so knowingly, we just call it something else.
If we are never going to allow someone out of jail, then the most humane act is to put them out of their misery and end their suffering - we do this without hesitation for injured animals. Kindness and compassion in these cases is the death penalty.
The question you should ask is what is best for the criminal, the victims, society in general, and the taxpayer. Life in jail or a quick pain-free end?
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