[andrewas]

In the UK we dont have the death penalty - and whats the result? Millions of pounds of taxpayers money (including mine) get spent keeping prisoners in prison - even when its not luxurious is expensive.

Of course, at the same time our schools are getting to be a joke (When i was there - couple year back now - we were using textbooks 20 years old, never enough chem lab equipment (fair enough we did break quite of lot of that [img]smile.gif[/img] etc etc), our health system is (apparently, i havent been in there recently) near collapse and every other week we hear about some child being murdered or abducted.

Im not saying the death penalty should be applied lightly, or that it woudl solve all of these problems, but a couple of million pounds could go a long way under a competent government.

Now, theres another thing we need...