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I wish the death penalty would be law once again

Started by Trevor, August 21, 2023, 10:41:34 AM

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Trevor

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

ER

I don't have words to react to that. My mind closes down. It's too terrible.

My friend Mitch likes to tell me atrocities are not always what they seem, that sometimes in the interlife plane known as the bardo roles in situations like these are chosen for the experience or as the interplay of the burning of karmic ribbons between a murderer and the murderer"s victims, who may have past life history, and that what seems horrible to us is a clearing of the slate that contributes to higher peace and spiritual evolution. Thinking that gives him comfort. (He lost a family member to a violent crime.)

All I know is people are capable of depravity so deep the brain can't take it in.

I hope this murderer never knows freedom.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Alex

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I doubt she ever will get outside. Myra Hindley "only" killed 5 kids and she never got out (unless you listen to conspiracy theories).

I wish there was a way to make people like this experience the pain they have caused. Quite often I feel the death penalty is an easy way out.

Whole life orders are not a sentence I hear often, and she's been given 14 of them.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

Trevor

Quote from: Alex on August 21, 2023, 02:39:33 PM
I doubt she ever will get outside. Myra Hindley "only" killed 5 kids and she never got out (unless you listen to conspiracy theories).

I wish there was a way to make people like this experience the pain they have caused. Quite often I feel the death penalty is an easy way out.

Whole life orders are not a sentence I hear often, and she's been given 14 of them.

I was wondering what a 'whole life order' was and now I know, thanks.

Hopefully someone will off her in prison: we live in hope 😊
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Alex

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Life sentences

When someone is given a life sentence, they will be subject to that sentence for the rest of their life.

When a judge passes a life sentence, they must specify the minimum term an offender must spend in prison before becoming eligible to apply for parole (sometimes called the tariff).

The offender will be released only once they have served the minimum term and if the Parole Board is satisfied that detaining the offender is no longer necessary for the protection of the public. If released, an offender serving a life sentence will remain on licence for the rest of their life. If they are ever thought to be a risk to the public they could be recalled to prison. They do not need to have committed another offence in order to be recalled.

There is one exception, which is when a judge passes a 'whole life order'. This sentence means that the offender must spend the rest of their life in prison.

Hopefully that explains it a bit. Life sentence means you can eventually get out, whole life order means you never breath free air again.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

Trevor

Quote from: Alex on August 21, 2023, 03:24:26 PM
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Life sentences

When someone is given a life sentence, they will be subject to that sentence for the rest of their life.

When a judge passes a life sentence, they must specify the minimum term an offender must spend in prison before becoming eligible to apply for parole (sometimes called the tariff).

The offender will be released only once they have served the minimum term and if the Parole Board is satisfied that detaining the offender is no longer necessary for the protection of the public. If released, an offender serving a life sentence will remain on licence for the rest of their life. If they are ever thought to be a risk to the public they could be recalled to prison. They do not need to have committed another offence in order to be recalled.

There is one exception, which is when a judge passes a 'whole life order'. This sentence means that the offender must spend the rest of their life in prison.

Hopefully that explains it a bit. Life sentence means you can eventually get out, whole life order means you never breath free air again.

Thanks: I think that whole life order sentence is too lenient for this waste of human skin and oxygen.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Alex

Whole life orders have been in the news a bit recently. Two drug dealers were chasing each other, and one tried to escape via running through someone's house. I am not sure on the details, but a gun went off while they were in the house and a young girl, 8 I think was accidentally  shot and killed. I know the gunman got a whole life sentence. To my mind both men involved should have that.

Sometimes I'd like to see the death sentence, but generally my thoughts on it are that if you execute someone who is later found innocent, there is no taking that back, or compensation that restores the person. Besides, I also feel it lets people off too easy and some folks should be made the suffer.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.