05-03-19, 08:53 PM
(05-03-19, 02:13 AM)tommyardin link Wrote: [quote author=mtread link=topic=25011.msg293778#msg293778 date=1551623633][size=1em]
The purpose of reduced sentences is to encourage rehabilitation and remorse. I agree, for the worst murders this is not going to happen. In those cases life must mean life, and it mustn't be pleasant.
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[size=1em]Now not having ever spent more than one night in a police station, I really don’t have any experiences of incarceration. [/size]
[size=1em]My understanding was that criminals do not go into prison to be punished, but that the removal of their liberty was indeed the punishment, and ideally come out a reformed person.[/size]
[size=1em]But for premeditated murder, and I think anyone going out carrying a knife I think premeditation is infered, a life sentence should be a minimum of 25 - 30 years. For someone who has killed more than once it should be their natural life. [/size]
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Have to agree. If you take a knife out with you, you must have had the intention to us it. The problem is, the govt is not willing to bear the cost of keeping them off the streets for ever, hence continuing efforts to reduce sentences early parole etc, and the death penalty does not carry the majority support of the nation any more. Throw in that any attempts to act on the problem will be taken as an assault on this/that or the other community/ethnic group, all with their own lobby groups within govt/parliament. Serious remedial action is not likely to be forthcoming, the politicians will froth at the mouth for a while, chuck a few at some local communities from which the problem appears to stem, then pass it on as they slip through the ever revolving door that is political life in this country these days. They really are too scared to act for fear of alienating their political grass roots support.