Ok here's a question for you.......

[The Lone Gunman]

Everyone is guilty of something. The trick is in figuring out what.

You are paraphrasing Judge Dredd!

[Chico]

Why dont we just stick em all in a room with Chico? The severity of the crime determines the term of the sentence/rehabilitation period. Either way once they come out they will either be jibbering wrecks or born again and will therefore offer no threat to society other than possessing a weapon of mass boredom.

Oi Dodgy you still having the affair with secretary in your office?

[DaveB]

You are paraphrasing Judge Dredd!

Nope, Captain Vimes

[DaveB]

How about Exterminating them?

Damn, there was a Dalek here a second ago! Whered it go?

[Joe Black]

Why should those victims be forced to pay for the incarceration of the animals who destroyed their lives? (Obviously not the victims of murderers, d'oh!) If someone is going to spend the rest of their life in prison, what is the point of keeping them alive, that actually sounds more spiteful and vengeful than death.

Don't think it has to be a case of victims paying for the incarceration of criminals - I'm presuming you mean through taxes, as even a murderer's death ain't really going to compensate someone for the loss of a son/daughter - when surely someone can come up with a way where inmates (HMG customers ) can be made to carry out some sort of work which pays for their upkeep as well as putting something back into society.

e.g. hiring them out for hazardous waste removal, mine clearing, nuclear power plant decomissioning etc...

[thunderlizard]

Capital punishment costs more money than life imprisonment.

Well it does in the US, because what you tend to get is a period of incarceration that lasts several years, even decades, while all the time there's a costly legal appeals process going on.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that if the UK did have capital punishment, there would be at least as much scope for appeals as in the US, the lawyers would cost even more, and the whole process would be less efficient.

[mcquiggd]

Soylent Green.....

.... a renewable energy source....

[Emperor Dalek]

How about Exterminating them?

Damn, there was a Dalek here a second ago! Whered it go?

At long last my Daleks are starting to see sense. No messing around until you've robotised all your humans for the day.

[Dundeegeorge]

Yeah, see but that's the point

Capital punishment costs more money than life imprisonment.

Well it does in the US, because what you tend to get is a period of incarceration that lasts several years, even decades, while all the time there's a costly legal appeals process going on.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that if the UK did have capital punishment, there would be at least as much scope for appeals as in the US, the lawyers would cost even more, and the whole process would be less efficient.

3rd offence = death.
Not well maybe death eventually, after we've spent years and hundreds of thousands of pounds on appeals, not well death, but really life imprisonment, well I say life, how does five years suit, but a very definite 3rd offence equals death penalty within 10 days of judgement.
Conversely we could just take off and nuke the planet from space, it'd be the safest way.

[mcquiggd]

3rd offence = death.
Not well maybe death eventually, after we've spent years and hundreds of thousands of pounds on appeals, not well death, but really life imprisonment, well I say life, how does five years suit, but a very definite 3rd offence equals death penalty within 10 days of judgement.

Bah! You work for the home office, dont you?