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“Head to Head: Death penalty”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4458032.stm
“Debate Over Death Penalty Heats Up”
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/12/117_38832.html
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/news/words/general/000113.shtml
Head to head: Death penalty
The shooting in Bradford of trainee policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky has prompted renewed calls for the return of the death penalty for those who kill police officers.
But should we bring back hanging? Leading figures from both side of the debate discuss the issue:
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPRIEVE
There are doubts that the Guantanamo detainees will get a fair trial.
How can the death of a police officer suddenly be the reason to have the death penalty when killing two little children in Soham wasn't?
First let's be clear I have tremendous sympathy for the victims and the fact one's opposed to the death penalty does not mean one is in favour of innocent people being killed.
There are two things about the death penalty. The first is that I've witnessed six people being executed in the electric chair and by lethal injection and in one of those six they managed to execute an innocent person.
They executed Edward E Johnson, in Mississippi in 1987. He was innocent and I was representing him and I failed him.
So until you convince me that human beings are infallible, you're not going to get me to agree to the death penalty.
The other thing about the death penalty is that it achieves absolutely nothing.
It (the death penalty) does nothing for the victims. We drag them through appeals and stays and it ruins their lives
Clive Stafford Smith
Whenever you witness it it's always at night because we are really uncomfortable about the whole process.
When you come out of the execution chamber and look up at the stars and ask yourself, 'Is the world suddenly a better place because that person has been executed?' the answer is 'No'.
It does nothing for the victims either. We drag them through appeals and appeals and stays and it just ruins their lives.
The death penalty achieves nothing except to degrade us all.
There are many arguments but to take the bottom line, which is really important for me, we should ask whether we should be in the business of revenge.
And when you put it bluntly, should we encourage our citizens to be vengeful or compassionate? We all know the answer but it's somehow still possible for people to argue for the death penalty.
I always think of Lorilei Guillory, the mother of a six-year-old child who was killed by one of my clients, Ricky Langley, who was given lots of false promises by the prosecution that she would feel better if he was executed.
But she finally realised it was awful and ended up testifying for us that she didn't want him to die. She is someone I admire and respect immensely.
In the US it costs two-and-a-half times as much to execute someone as it does to keep them in prison for ever.
Some people argue they should speed the process up to make it cheaper but they make so many mistakes that if this happened they would simply end up executing more innocent people.
MICHAEL WINNER, POLICE MEMORIAL TRUST CHAIRMAN
Michael Winner: "We're far too nice to those attacking us"
I extend it to more than people who kill police officers. The laws in this country are stacked against the good people and in favour of the bad people.
I mean, what is the point of keeping people alive at great expense in prison when they're murderers and villains and of incredible evil.
There's no question if the nation voted on this there would be an overwhelming vote for the death penalty and the nation is right.
We're far too nice to those who are attacking us and murdering us and raping us, far too kind. They get a minimal sentence and they're out in half an hour anyway and there's no deterrent, so I'm definitely for the death penalty and for the police having guns so they can protect themselves.
If those two girls had gone in with guns, and they'd been trained of course to use the guns, we don't know what would have happened. It may be the villain got shot and killed, in which case I would say 'hooray'.
In every battle against evil, sadly, very sadly, some innocent people do die. Otherwise we wouldn't have fought WWII and we'd all be under German occupation.
Of course people have made mistakes but they're very rare and we face increasing danger from vicious gangs from eastern Europe, from China, from Africa and our own home-grown gangs as well.
Guns can be bought very easily and the police should have guns and there should be a death penalty for a number of offences.
I'm not convinced the world is not a better place for the victims [when the culprit is executed] - well of course if the victim's dead, that's all over but a victim's family would be, I would think on the whole, delighted that the person who had killed their young son or daughter received the same penalty.
Debate Over Death Penalty Heats Up
Residents look at Kang Ho-soon reconstructing one of his seven homicides at one of the crime scene in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, Monday, the second day of a reenactment. / Korea Times Photo by Kim Joo-sung
By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
South Korea has been internationally known as a de facto ``death penalty-free state,'' with no executions conducted in the past decade. President Lee Myung-bak's predecessor, Roh Moo-hyun, seriously considered replacing the punishment with life in prison.
But serial killer Kang ho-soon, horrifying people by showing how brutal human nature can be, has rekindled debate over whether the abolition of capital punishment is appropriate.
Conservative legislators and civic groups side with the lethal punishment for the sake of the security of society and the prevention of similar crimes, while anti-capital punishment activists, mostly from religious groups, refute the allegation, saying humans have no right to determine the fate of others, even if they are heinous criminals.
Rep. Park Jun-seon of the conservative ruling Grand National Party ignited recent debate.
In a recent statement, Park claimed the death penalty is the ``only way'' to punish such a criminal as brutal as Kang, who has been arrested on charges of murdering at least seven women.
``I believe every South Korean citizen demands the serial killer be put to death,'' he said. ``Maintaining the death penalty would help reduce such crimes and serve as a `last resort' in keeping those gravely undermining social safety away from society permanently.''
Indeed, many legal experts forecast the 38-year-old will be sentenced to death or at least a life sentence.
According to the Ministry of Justice, a total of 58 criminals are behind bars with confirmed death sentences. But no execution has taken place since 1997, resulting in the country being recognized as a de facto ``death penalty-free state'' by Amnesty International in 2007.
``Taking past cases into consideration, Kang is most likely to receive the death penalty even though it's too early to predict,'' said a judge at the Seoul Central District Court.
Courts here have imposed the death penalty on serial killers with few exceptions.
Yoo Young-chul, who committed the nation's worst serial killing spree by killing 20 citizens, was sentenced to death in 2004. Chung Nam-kyu was also sentenced to capital punishment on charges of murdering 13 people and injuring 20 between 2004 and 2006. Five members of the ``Jijonpa'' crime group were also put to death after kidnapping and murdering five wealthy people in 1994.
The Christian Council of Korea, which represents nearly 45,000 Protestant churches here, or 81 percent of all Korean churches, estimated at 55,000 nationwide, is a rare religious group supporting the punishment.
``The holy Bible justifies the punishment,'' a council member said, without disclosing his name. ``Anti-death penalty activists cite judges' imperfection in ruling and politically-motivated abuse of the penalty as the primary reasons for its abolishment, which we should certainly overcome. But those shouldn't be reasons for the abolishment.''
The National Human Rights Commission issued an official statement in 2005, asking for the repealing of executions.
``Kang is apparently vicious and immoral, which can be blamed publicly, but not seen as a reason for him to be executed by other civilians,'' a commission official said, declining to be named
Korean Catholics and Buddhists support the abolition.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea clarified its position against capital punishment through an official statement in September 2007. The Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist sect in Korea, asked the administration to scrap the policy in its latest statement.
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