Death Penalty: Does your country have it?

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StokedUp said:

Richmyster6907 said:
From the UK and we do not have it. Because we are civilised.

I also do not agree with it. I'd prefer to let them waste their lives for 50+ years in a cell.

The U.K. Does have the death penalty, serious cases of treason against the country are still punishable by death in the UK.

The death penalty for murder was abolished in Great Britain in 1965, and in NI in 1973. But  in theory you could still be hung, drawn and quartered for high treason as recently as 1998.

The last time high treason was used to prosecute anyone was in 1945, and he was hung in 1946.

There's no death penalty in the UK. The maximum sentence possible is life imprisonment.