This is just sending the wrong message to our problem kids in cities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7326439.stm
Maybee once the problem gets bad enough that a couple of judges are killed then sentencing will become appropriate. The whole concept of a life sentence being 15 years is just wrong (and probably just marketting).
(maybee i'm wrong that life now means 15 years.
If the tariff for crime X is 15 years, call it 15 years, dont pretend its life.
(even though I guess 15 years in jail does destroy your life, but you only get it for destroying a whole stack of other peoples lives)
Richard
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7326439.stm
Maybee once the problem gets bad enough that a couple of judges are killed then sentencing will become appropriate. The whole concept of a life sentence being 15 years is just wrong (and probably just marketting).
(maybee i'm wrong that life now means 15 years.
If the tariff for crime X is 15 years, call it 15 years, dont pretend its life.
(even though I guess 15 years in jail does destroy your life, but you only get it for destroying a whole stack of other peoples lives)
Richard