@DJCliffy 347475 wrote:
Yeah but this liberal and soft sentencing doesn’t work. Somethings gotta change and change soon.
I follow crime news from initial reports all the way through to sentencing and since Tony Blair came to power there has been a trend to increase sentences for pre-meditated murder and other violent crimes, particularly when the victims are less physically strong than the attackers. There is a problem whereby it seems the judiciary assume that young men are “expected to fight” and thus sentences are a bit low in this case (especially if the victim got a few punches in on the attacker) but with more vulnerable victims its not uncommon to see 20-35 year sentences these days. there is also a whole life tarriff which was used for the Ipswich murder cases.
Most people no longer believe in religions with afterlife (which was really what made the death penalty a deterrent and also made other people think the perpetrator would be punished in the afterlife) – and when we had the death penalty in this nation there was more and worse domestic violence and gang violence (particularly in the Victorian era) as upping the stakes often makes people feel life is cheap..
reintroducing the death penalty or corporal punishment into any nation will also pave the way for the introduction of Sharia law and other religious legislation, given the political and economic power religious groups still have across the world.
and greater penalties wouldn’t have prevented this incident anyway, its more a case of families being more willing to involve the Police or other authorities at an earlier stage when domestic violence starts to occur (it looks like the weapon used may have come from the family home used by someone familiar with the home..)
