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I believe the death penalty should be reinstated. Due to the large number of murder and rape cases in South Africa, a harsher penalty may be the answer. Allowing abusers to leave because of good behavior appears to be a slap in the face to survivors who are continually reliving their trauma or have internalized it to the point of becoming mentally ill. Reintroducing the death sentence is also one of the few ways to ensure that a crime will not be repeated. We must, however, ensure that the appropriate individuals are in charge of implementing and investigating the death penalty proceedings, as murdering the wrong people will further exacerbate the country's already fragile status.

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I think it should not come back. Bringing the death penalty can also result in innocent people dying. Many people are in prison for crimes they did not commit. Already that is hurt breaking for their families. Now how much more if they get killed. Especially now that our country is living on lies and killings I think many would die

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Like everything in life, every choice made , there will always be opposers and people who agree, I on the other hand am completely neutral on the topic, because I believe that God is the only one that can save us.

The death penalty truly is the definition of a win-lose situation, as Maybe an innocent person will die , but then again no one knows that they are innocent right? The evidence against them proves them guilty, so who are we too judge when they sentence has been given based on the evidence. I think that with the death penalty being removed, it gave criminals freedom, they are litterally living in luxury. They get food, entertainment, and even the most horrible criminals have a chance to go home because of "Good Behaviour", and while that can be true that they "changed" one can never really know for how long or if it was just a front to get out.

I think that death is too easy of a punishment, it ends suffering, and brings peace to the person because they feel nothing. True punishment comes from living, and having regret, ofcourse some people are psychopaths and do not have the mental capacity to feel any remoarse for what they have done. Their is a whole contradicting effect that the Death Penalty leaves on ones mind. Would much rather beat the person for what they have done because Death seems too easy.

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I believe that death penalty should be brought back and that would decrease the crime rate. The thing is that back then in times of apartheid regime it was used on innocent people. We have children being kidnapped and found dead in bushes and mountains, we have taxi drivers and owners from different associations gunning down each other and there's many more painful crimes that are committed and yet those criminals are put to jail and later come out. Corruption is taking place all over our areas, we have corrupt cops and lawyer that are easily bribed by the criminals for them to be out of prison, how then do we expect crime to end. I prefer that if one is found guilty at the court of law should be charged with death penalty, I believe that crime will eventually come to an end.

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I agree that the death penalty should be brought back. South Africa has a high number of murder and rape cases and a stronger sentence could be the answer we are looking for. Letting perpetrators out because of good behaviour seems like a slap to the face of survivors who re-live their trauma constantly or even internalise it and become mentally unstable. Bringing back the death penalty is also one of the few ways to guarantee that a crime does not happen again. We do however need to make sure we get the right people to implement and investigate the death penalty trials as killing the wrong people would just be hurting the already fragile state of this broken nation.

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WAS THE DEATH PENALTY EFFECTIVE AND SHOULD IT BE BOUGHT BACK?

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WAS THE DEATH PENALTY EFFECTIVE AND SHOULD IT BE BOUGHT BACK?

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Death penalty was a bad thing but what was good about it is that it was subjected to people who committed bad things to others. I feel like death penalty was effective then and should be brought back because if we would check the statistics of people who were killed before death penalty was removed the number is way small than after the penalty was removed because people know that they will just be arrested and still live a normal life behind bars.

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I totally agree the death penalty must come back. It will reduce the death and killing of people by others. If someone committed crime must be killed be also immediately.

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IT CAN BE BROUGHT BACK BUT WE WILL ALSO HAVE INNOCENT PEOPLE BEING EXECUTED 

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IT CAN BE BROUGHT BACK BUT WE WILL ALSO HAVE INNOCENT PEOPLE BEING EXECUTED 

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There are many wrongful arrests and we will have people that will die for something they did not do or admit to a crime they did not commit

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I think it should be brought back but only to a certain extent, it may have negatives because there are also wrongful arrests , and sometime times people might die for something they did not do but it’s also a good thing because it will stop the high crime rates and rape

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I totally agree the death penalty should come back because reinforced because this countries justice is favouring mostly the culprits than the victims. I mean how do they think the victims are feeling when they see the people who tortured them coming back from prison after they’ve thought they are not coming back again.

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I am on the fence now that I actually think about it. On the one hand, there are arguments that we will be just as guilty as the murderer because we are committing the exact same crime as that person did. But on the other hand, that person should be punished and we all know that SA's justice system is failing us. People get arrested today and released a few days later. In my area, we constantly witnessing crime and murders but nothing is being done to effectively protect or put an end to that. I feel that an example needs to be made out of one of these criminals and if that means that the death penalty needs to be implemented to lower the crime rate and murder rate as a whole, then I am here for that.

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I totally agree with you.  The death penalty should be brought back.

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I totally agree with you.  The death penalty should be brought back.

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Goodday everyone.
I have created this padlet to share my opinion on the death penalty with all of you'll. I would really appreciate it if you could comment on this because this is a topic that I actually take very seriously. Please be respectful of each and everyone's views. To many people it may seem harsh but I believe that the death penalty should be reinforced,but only for really serious crimes such as murder or sexual assault . Ask yourself are these criminals really getting punished for their deeds?At the moment criminals are being given approximately 25 years in jail for murdering someone, of which they only do 10 years and are released early on good behaviour. A month or two later they kill again. How can we say that death is to harsh of a punishment for someone or hurt and killed a toddler? Everytime someone gets murdered we hold a beautiful march and we get upset but two weeks later all is forgotten. I am sorry but that's just not enough for me. IT'S TIME TO TAKE ACTION!!! ✊