A New Vote on Death?

Next week my fellow blogger Guido Fawkes is launching an online petition
to get the death penalty restored. Or at least get MP's voting on it once again and debating, thus bringing it to peoples attention. Will it do any good? Will we as a whole suddenly snap out of our forgiving mindset regarding murderers and instantly decide to abandon soft prison sentences in exchange for the return of the noose? I sincerely doubt it as good fortune is in short supply these days (unless you happen to be a criminal) but it does prove that hopes of a death penalty haven't disappeared.
You see when the lily hearts finally grow up and throw away their liberal all-life-deserves-a-second-chance fad, we will bring back capital punishment like I have often told you we would. To be against the death penalty is a fairly new 'trend' which will take a few years to shake off as all nasty viruses do. Its not unusual for countries to test new waters and try different approaches to punishment for example but these tests will be abandoned when it is seen that nothing good comes of it.

Killers: walk this way

And seriously, what good can ever become of softening prison sentences for violent crimes? This new petition sees to employ the death penalty for those who murder children and police officers. Is there any other suitable punishment for those who commit such crimes? A sane, right minded person would think not.
Personally I would bring the the hemp rope back for all murders (even rape and drunk driving which results in death) but at least this would be sailing in the right direction.
Anyway im very happy for this petition because at least I know im not the only one thinking about it. You see when something is truly dead, like for instance hanging, drawing & quartering, then it remains so. But hope for the death penalty is still alive in the UK. And as long as it is, it could always come back to the table.