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FYI Ian Watkins was Welsh and was sentenced in Cardiff in 2013; the death penalty was effectively abolished in the UK in 1965.
Then it's not even a matter of choosing one - they already chose one.
The rest of my point still holds - everybody involved, from the judge(s) on down to the prison guards - knew full well that putting a child sex abuser in with the other prisoners was effectively a death sentence, so for all intents and purposes, they did sentence him to death. They just relied on someone else to carry out the sentence for them.
So it would appear that the death sentence wasn't actually abolished - it was just disguised.
And that's cheap and dishonorable.
Many sex offenders serve out their sentence and are eventually released. If anything, the general consensus is that the UK justice system is too lenient on sex offenders (albeit the reality is far more nuanced than most discussions acknowledge).