Is there an appetite for a return of the death penalty? #BBCNolan

May 14, 2015, 10:55 AM

"We were wrong to abolish hanging" - that was the view of the new Justice Secretary Michael Gove when he was a newspaper columnist in the 90s. The comments have surfaced again after David Cameron announced his new cabinet. They echo some of our own politicians views on the death penalty. The DUP have often called for its return. In 2011 the party's then five MPs tabled an Early Day Motion calling for the matter to be discussed in the House of Commons. But what do you think? Should the debate around capital punishment be reopened? Does taking a life for a life sound like justice to you? Or is prison the best option? Stephen spoke to commentator Charlie Wolf and journalist Fionola Meredith.