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  I used to think that capital punishment should be outlawed for good, end of story. No longer. With the advent of DNA technology and the massive advances made in forensic pathology over recent years, I do feel that the chances of an unfair conviction in murder cases are now almost negligible, and that murder convictions are now much safer.
  
  That said, I also believe that English and Welsh courts should also introduce the Scottish verdict option of 'Not Proven' so that the choice for juries is not to put someone to death or not, and that there should be introduced the American two-tier murder charges of 'Murder 1' and 'Murder 2', so that premeditated cold-blooded murder can be distinguished from mercy killings with extenuating circumstances.
  
  Corporal punishment legislation should never have been repealed in the first place; by doing so, the door was opened to thugs, bullies and worse. The nation went soft at a stroke.
  
  As for letting prisoners vote? Of course they should be allowed to; a prisoner still has a brain and is still a member of the human race. It's a measure of our own humanity how we treat such issues. Locking people up, throwing away the key and pretending they don't exist is barbaric.

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