"....A preliminary study by the authors of 894 Western Australian males arrested for homicide offences during the period 1984-2005, and subsequently released from prison, found that 177 (19.8%) of the 894 were subsequently re-arrested for another grave offence (any violent offence including breaking into a dwelling) by the end of the follow-up time (December 31, 2005). Among these 177 men, 13 (7.3%) were in fact re-arrested for another homicide offence...."

Had those 13 murderers been executed after the first offence, 13 people would not have been murdered.

Would the saving of those 13 lives have been worth it?
http://criminology.research.southwales.ac.uk/features/reoffending/

o sung wu mate, the one who gains most from capital punishment is the next victim. The one the criminal is going to kill or rape once they are let out. I am talking about cold blooded killers, or even worse, those who did it for fun.

Don't worry about the taking of human life, these are the ones who didn't quite make it, they are not quite human.

If there was any chance that life was just that, the criminal would never be let out, I would be happy with that, but our bleeding hearts would never let that be.

While there is every likelihood that they will be let out, & will offend again, the only satisfactory sentence is death.

It is the only thing that protects the innocent, & guarantees a killer will not kill again.

There is also the enormous saving in money; the depraved murders of Anita Cobby have and are costing the taxpayer money that could have been well spent elsewhere.

Why don't we just send them back to the warzones and ask the Americans to drone them? At least they can say an actual terrorist was killed in the airstrike.

Dear O Sung Wu,

You ask what should we do regarding terrorists?

What we don't do is succumb to the siren calls of
demagogues, charlatans and ideologues.

We have laws that we are all expected to abide by.
These are laws enacted by the Parliament under the
Australian Constitution. It is important for people
to realise that if they break a law that it is going
to be enforced whether they acknowledge its
legitimacy or not. This applies to all criminals -
including those who choose to engage in terrorist
activities.

Despite all the obloquy shovelled on the head of
politicians, they are the men and women who work the
machinery of our democratic way of life. They reflect
public opinion - and at their best they lead public
opinion - and transmute it into laws that shape our
society and our country.

We have to decide what sort of
country we want to live in - and whether we want capital
punishment to be a part of our legal framework.

I feel the same way about this subject as Rehctub.
Unless we have absolute, undeniable proof that someone has murdered someone else, and that it was premeditated, then I don't support capital punishment.
I can't see that ever happening.

I hate the thought of electrocuting or medicating someone to death if they were actually innocent.
That would make all of us guilty of murder if we had voted to make capital punishment legal.