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  I am 100% in favour of the death penalty being avaiable to the Courts for extreme cases of murder. I do mean extreme cases, the Soham murderer and the Moors murderers are prime examples of those for whom there was absolute certainty of guilt, terrible crimes that deserved the death sentence. The former, I think I am right in saying, ended up killing himself and a good job too.
  
  Clearly there should be safeguards against the innocent being executed and there should be one final appeal process, not to do with guilt or not but regarding the type and weight of evidence that led to the prosecution. Any death sentence should only be carried out if that evidence is sufficient otherwise a life sentence should be given, life being life behind bars.
  
  There is though one crime for which death sentence should be manditory, commutable to a term of years if the guilty party provides evidence to convict someone else involved. That is for the selling or traffiking of illegal drugs, if they 'grass' someone higher up the chain that jail sentence would be shorter, indeed the shorter the higher up the drug chain the 'grassed' (not grasser) person is.
  
  I believe the result of that would be a huge surge in the street price of drugs (the 'risk premium') and very few people would actually suffer the death penalty (the very stupid and those at the very top...) Like this I think that an evil trade that causes so much crime and misery will be seriously curtailed.

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