Why I support the death penalty

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It's not easy to get on the benefits system, and they are always trying to take me off it or reduce my benefits (ie they can do it without giving an explanation and basically if I try to appeal they can reduce even further).

I think benefit fraud has been made into a hyperbole by the media. I bet most of it comes from those who are no longer on benefit and who happen to have 'gotten lucky' or at least, a lucky postcode.

The benefit people leave no stone unturned. I can't even get EMA, not because I'm not legible but because for the past two years they've been sending my claims back and asking for more and more evidence because I haven't the guardians to supply it. I'll be too old next week. I'm owed hundreds maybe thousands of pounds that I had to borrow from other sources to help me with education, indeed everyday I'm learning on borrowed time. I'll never see that money.

England.

Same as me, then.

Maybe different sorts of benefits are easier to get than others, I dunno.

If it helps, housing was insanely easy to get, but that may have been because I applied through my landlord and they were used to the system. Income support...goodness, I can't wish that anybody. 8 months of hell and paperwork after paperwork, running back and forth. Even my social worker lost her temper a few times with those people over the phone. EMA is the worst for me. Will never get it. Could be due to my unusual circumstances but, it doesn't excuse how they've treated me.

It's a strange system. I got a form sent back once for failing to declare my ethnicity. They could have asked me over the phone- it wasn't vital information. They were merely stalling.

I'm sure some parts of the UK have better services than others though.

If I may throw in my two cents: it doesn't seem like you defend the death penalty, it seems like you would like to kill this bully yourself.

I think there should be a death penalty but only for very very serious things.

Put yourself in the shoes of a mother, now imagine your 4 year old child had been raped by someone, you would want them to get the harshest punishment possible, wouldnt you?

Or if you where a parent of the boy in the article (linked to in the first post), I know I certainly would want the bully to die.

In fact, they should make it so the person who is effected by the crime can shoot the offender... Now that is justice!

I'd go one step further than paralysing the bully. I'd paralyse the mother and father, too. They raise their kids, they are responsible for them. I agree with the original post. Some people only understand brute force. But that's assuming this has all played out like everyone says it has. The news report wasn't exactly great in shedding much light on the situation.