Now i know people got hanged that were innocent but with todays dna tests it is 99.9% proof
No it isn't and what about the 0.1%? What if you were suspected to be the murderer, were completely innocent but the evidence was stacked against you? How would you feel?
If you kill someone with intent you should have your life taken away from you. (IMVHO)
Then you're no better than the murderer.
We (society) and marketing companies have created an instant gratification society where the acquisition of material goods is seen as been the big thing. Time we all learned respect for ourselves and others and that you have to be happy from within and taking away what someone else has should not be tolerate. Lets remember that for the most part there are very few people who are hunger or cold in this country, so why behave in this way.
+1. Everyone
must have the latest game, the latest TV etc. We value belongings above and beyond human life now. This needs to change.
Being honest I don't like anyone taking someones life it's such a precious thing to lose
+1. Completely agree with this. It is such a drastic thing to do.
This country is far too much of a soft touch!!
Agree in some respects - when software piracy and hacking carry a heavier penalty than raping someone, something has gone wrong.
You have to be pretty sure that you are murdering the right person, not 99.% sure but 100% sure, not even DNA testing can give you that assurance
Which is why I disagree with the death penalty.
I'd bring in hard labour in prisons. Strip all their TV's, playstations, Facebook access, and comfortable cells and make the cells like those in America with just an uncomfortable bed with one open wall of bars only.
completely agree with this. I know patients who committed crimes so they could go back inside where they had a place to stay, food, they'd be seen by a doctor, and they'd have comfort. Prison needs to be hell - the kind of place you never want to go to in the first place.
Life imprisonment without parole causes much more suffering to the offender than a painless death after a short period of imprisonment.
+1. I cannot recall who stated it but give them meaningless tasks eg moving rocks from one place to another and back. It saps meaning out of their existance but they will still exist and suffer.
Roughly £28k per prisoner per year, £3.15 Billion last year providing 3 meals, Playstations, Sky TV etc
The cost of this needs to be broken down and analysed. I never had a games console as a kid so no idea why everyone in prison seems to have access to one. Ditto with sky TV.
I do however think there is no harm in giving prisoners who are in for non violent offences the oppertunity to develop new, practical skills. They could be put to use to improve the infrastructure of the country no problem. But, imagine the haters you'd get if they implemented that!!
Big fan of this too - prisons can rehabilitate some (but not everybody). There are some who commit crimes to obtain money for food/drugs etc. Prison should be a place where people are detoxified and not where they can start/continue their drug habit.
While I am on my soapbox, they should drastically reform the state benefits so its actually better for the "Scroungers" to work than sit at home collecting benefits because they had the forsight to have a few kids and let the government pay for it. 
+1. If you're on benefits, it should just about allow you to live - ie water/heating/shelter/clothes/food. Anything else is a luxury and if you want it, you should have to pay for it.
