Which pressure groups in the UK are campaigning for the return of the death penalty?

I have enjoyed spending much time in Singapore and have marvelled at how people safely walk around at night and also how families leave their children in shopping malls whilst they go to the bank. In the UK this week we see the murder of a policewoman and also a man who stole credit cards from a nurse leaving her locked in a car boot for 10 days. Quite simply criminals have free reign in the UK as they know the law is soft.


Let me know if you know groups





Thanks


Jon|||I'm cynical too, but I don't think the death penalty is murder, it's a duly rendered punishment by law.|||The death penalty does not create a perfect, crime-free Utopia. We had capital punishment in the past. We abolished it for two major reasons. One being that mistakes are made. Another is that it is not a deterrent. Crime still happens.





It is no accident that the 13 out of 50 US states which have no death penalty, also have the lowest crime, and the state which executes the most has the worst crime figures.





No serious politicians in the UK wants it reinstated, and it would be contrary to our commitments under the terms of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the UK drafted and signed in 1950, against the rules of the Council of Europe, and the EU.





The real reason for the apparent low crime in Singapore will be to do with cultural attitudes, not to how criminals are murdered.





I suspect that far from being the crime free paradise you describe, Singapore does indeed have crime, murder, robbery and the like.





Iraq, Sierra Leone, Angola, S Africa, Columbia, Brazil, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, China, the US, and many more countries (in fact 85 countries in total) have a worse murder rate than the UK.





Granted, Singapore has the second lowest official rate in the world. But how accurate is crime reporting there?