Petition · past parliament

Bring back the death sentence for convicted paedophiles.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The police are forced to protect beasts in every community instead of the children.
They have committed the worst offence possible. Children affected have to live with the damage they do for the rest of their lives while paedophiles reintroduced back into civilization after short lenient sentences
Not required. They can always reoffend. There's no rehabilitation to stop the way these creatures think. They will never be accepted back into any community after destroying an innocent child's life. They signed their own death warrant and should be given the death penalty this way our children will be safe and any others with these vile thoughts will think twice before offending.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The term "pedophile" is used to describe people who have been convicted of a variety of different criminal offences. We're not sure which crimes you would like to be punishable by the death penalty.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

22 Jul 2018 Petition opened for signatures
27 Jul 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 27 Jul 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.