Troy Davis Execution: Time for Britain to Adopt Death Penalty?

On Wednesday 21 September Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia for the murder of policeman Mark MacPhail in 1991.

Despite serious concerns with the evidence the state of Georgia carried out the execution and brought Mr Davis' 20 year stay of execution to an end. What the state of Georgia showed was a complete lack of compassion, humanity and acted in revenge, not justice. There is simply to justification for taking somebody's life, be it that of Troy Davis, convicted of a heinous murder oranybody else.

There is simply no statistical evidence to say that introducing a death penalty would deter people from committing crime. A report from the Death Penalty Information Centre shows that those states in the U.S. that have the death penalty have higher rates of homicide.