Posted on 01/03/2014 6:32:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
David Cameron was yesterday accused of planning to kow-tow to European human rights judges and scrap the countrys toughest jail sentences.
So-called whole-life terms, which condemn the most dangerous serial killers to die behind bars, could be replaced by US-style 100-year terms. But crucially, unlike many states in the US, the new sentences in Britain will come with an automatic reviewpotentially allowing murderers who would otherwise have stayed in jail to be released back on to the streets. [ ]
Downing Street is set to change the law to comply with a European Court of Human Rights judgment, which found life sentences without any prospect of parole amounted to a breach of killers human rights.
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Yes, Cameron is Europes man in Westminster.Is UK caving in to Europes call to scrap life term? Cameron accused of planning to kow-tow to European human rights judges
Girly men.
I know would could confound them. Refer to the death penalty as “euthanasia.” Britain now annually murders some 30,000 of its weakest and least able to defend themselves adults through starvation, as well as a huge number unable to defend themselves babies in abortions, so why not add vicious murderers to the blend?
Say, “euthanasia for any criminal sentenced to over 30 years in prison”.
They could even advertise it: “It’s *not* capital punishment. It’s euthanasia!”
That’d take a redefinition of criminal acts as manifestations of a fatal illness, of course.
Like the "supreme measure of social defense" that Solzhenitsyn noted in the "Gulag Archipelago", when describing the death penalty for Stalin's political prisoners.
We need a compromise - a 30 day life sentence instead of 100 years. After the conviction, there should be an automatic review and appeal, and if the evidence supports the conclusion that the convicted murderer/rapist is a danger to society, the killer should have a date with Sparky one month later.
I don’t get any pleasure out of the idea of executing someone, even if the criminal is evil personified, but I get a whole lot of pleasure from knowing there is no possibility of escape, error, or other misadventure leading to the rape/death of an innocent at the hands of that criminal.
Britain suspended the death penalty in 1965, abolished 1969.
Yes, and now the EU is going after life sentences.
... and Ted Bundy went on to rape and murder how many women?
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