I’m anti-death penalty, too many opportunities for innocent people to be executed, especially if it were opened up to sex offences. However, perpetual isolated incarceration, no visits, no contact with the outside world, they go into their cell, get fed through a hole in the door and have access to a digital library of books and videos, a treadmill, lavatory facilities and that’s it. For all intents and purposes they have been removed from the planet. I could live with that, because should a miscarriage of justice occur it can be rectified.

I’d call the facility housing the convicts “HMP Woodchipper”, and there’s a salt mine under the North Sea that would be perfect for the facility, only one way in or out and kilometres of winding tunnels miles below the surface. Station an armed guard at the entrance and no one is escaping or paying an unannounced visit.

I’d treat it similarly to the death penalty too, you’re held in a maximum security prison for one year post conviction, have full raft of appeals and legal pleadings, even a re-examination of the case and an independent panel of judges to confirm the verdict, and then on the set date, you get a final meal, visit with friends and family and then live on television for all to see, you are transported to your cell below the North Sea and locked in, never to be seen nor heard from again.

It’d be an available punishment for paedophiles, rapists/sex offenders and murderers but not mandatory.