I've just watched Trevor McDonald's documentary he recently made about prisoners in America on death row. He visited Indiana State Maximum Security prison in America. He spoke to and questioned some of the prisoners there about the crimes they had committed an their lives in the prison, 12 of whom were on death row.
One prisoner's story stuck out for me as it was a crime he committed when he was just 13 years old. He was found guilty of a double murder and sentenced at the age of 15. The prisoner who's now in his 30's talked about how he knew that his whole life would be spent inside that prison because of a very bad decision he made when he was so young.
Watching the program does make me think that Britain not having the death penalty is a good thing. This is because I don't believe that taking someone's life can ever be justified. However I do think that Britain needs stronger punishments for people that commit violent crimes.
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