Hey guys,

It’s not often that I cover politics in my blog because it is, in my opinion, a stuffy and boring subject and I try to keep my political views to myself both online and in real-life.

However, earlier today I noticed something that I found quite interesting.

It all started with an article I read on the BBC’s website about e-petitions (online petitions that can prompt a parliamentary debate if they get enough signatures).

One of the petitions was to bring back capital punishment and the death penalty, which is something I am strongly against.

The main reason I am against the death penalty is because I believe that violence breeds violence and we as a society shouldn’t be responsible for the death of our people no matter how heinous the crimes they commit.

In my opinion the world would be a better place if there were more love and forgiveness and all forms of hatred and violence were eradicated, which can only be done by changing people’s thinking – no easy task, but a worthwhile one, I think.

Anyhow, I’m waffling now. I don’t want to go preaching my opinions and values to you too much!

Anywho, I checked out the e-petition to bring back capital punishment and found it had around 400 signatures.

I also noticed a petition to retain the ban on capital punishment, which had around 550 votes.

I felt that I should show my support for the latter petition, so signed it – a simple process which involved filling in my name, address, email etc. then confirming my signature by clicking a link in an email.

I was also a little worried that there were only 150 more votes for the ‘retain the ban’ petition that the ‘bring back the death penalty’ petition.

The interesting thing I noticed – and something that made me feel as though the human race had a lot more love and forgiveness than I gave credit for – was seeing that the number of votes for the ‘retaining the ban’ had increased to around 2500, whilst the number of votes to ‘bring back the death penalty’ had only increased to around 1000.

Of course it’s still early days, but I’m glad that there are others in the UK that have the same principles as myself and wish to steer the country away from bringing back the death penalty.

It gave me a happy glow inside