Easily anti-death penalty. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I am also anti-life in prison without parole. I think all life sentences should have at the very least the right to go out under parole after a certain amount of time, say, 30-40 years.
Disagree on this. Someone who murdered or raped another person should not ever, ever see the light of freedom again. Taking another's life on purpose, or mentally tearing them apart with the heinous crime of rape, should be punished by the strongest means. If it's a mistake, the prisoner would be released (and should be heavily compensated).
Yeah, this is a controversial position I know, but I still think that a 70 year old is not the biggest threat to public safety and that everyone, even the most despicable members of society, still deserve a 2nd chance.
It might also be because life imprisonment is actually a hot issue here since it was reintroduced in 2015 for the first time since 1928.
Life imprisonment also defeats the argument that prison is meant as rehabilitation and not punishment.
This is actually something I think the UK has right. Murderers get a "life" sentence which in most cases doesn't actually mean life, but in certain particularly serious cases (or if the prisoner doesn't show the necessary signs of rehabilitation) it does.
I'm totally against the death penalty, both on the grounds of finding it morally objectionable and the wrongful convictions problem. I disagree with making an exception for terrorists; many of them are actually after martyrdom, and it isn't as if the problems with wrongful convictions go away. (Look up the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four.) Governments also have a nasty habit of extending the definition of "terrorism" to suit them.
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