Majority of people say UK should bring back death penalty, poll shows

A majority of people say the UK should bring back the death penalty, according to a new poll, Report informs via DailyMail.

The support behind reintroducing capital punishment is mostly being driven by millennials - born in the late 1980s to mid-1990s - with three in five (58 percent) backing the idea, with a quarter (27 percent) against.

The survey, carried out by public opinion think tank More in Common, showed Britons backed the use of the death penalty for heinous crimes such as serial murder and deadly terrorist attacks.

Some 56 percent were in favor of rapists facing capital punishment, too.

Public support had increased since More in Common last carried out the poll in autumn 2023 from 50 to 55 percent, reported The Times.

The new poll was carried out after there were debates about whether it should be brought back following the sentencing of triple child-killer Axel Rudakubana.

The murderer avoided a whole life sentence as he was aged 17 when he carried out his sick stabbing spree in which he killed little Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.

Rudakubana, 18, began a 52-year sentence last week at one of Britain's most notorious prisons, Belmarsh in south-east London, where he was placed in isolation for his own safety.

He was convicted of murdering three girls and ten counts of attempted murder.