But does even the U.S. provide "true" life imprisonment? Or aren't murderers released all the time because of re-sentencing cout orders, overturn of jury verdicts on technicalities, even jailbreaks?
Releasing a known murderer is like the whole damn system being an accessory to murder.
I read somewhere that ther are 500 homicides a year by offenders with a PREVIOUS CONVICTION for homicide --- in California alone!
“But it does say that in countries which can provide true life imprisonment without possibility of release, life imprisonment should be the penalty.”
It is a prudential judgment that such a sentence can, in reality, actually be provided for and guaranteed. My own reading strongly suggests that such a sentence cannot be provided for and guaranteed.
“But does even the U.S. provide ‘true’ life imprisonment? Or aren't murderers released all the time because of re-sentencing cout orders, overturn of jury verdicts on technicalities, even jailbreaks?”
You make my point very well.
“Releasing a known murderer is like the whole damn system being an accessory to murder.”
Precisely.
“I read somewhere that ther are 500 homicides a year by offenders with a PREVIOUS CONVICTION for homicide -— in California alone!”
I don't know what the precise numbers are, but I have read that more folks are murdered by murderers who were previously eligible for the death sentence than there are murderers who are actually put to death. Somehow, that statistic seems upside down and backwards to me.
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