Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Oh dear.First of all, England's ''life sentance'' is not fixed. Average is 15 years, but most serve significantly longer, because in England whena person gets few life sentences he/she serves them continuously, so NOONE who gets life serves 10 years.
They have to serve 15 years before there can be a parole AT ALL. Get your damn fact straight.
Ok ok so i got the times wrong , thats not my main point though my point is , in other countries life means LIFE , ether you are killed (by chair/lethal injection) or you are in prison for the rest of your life .
Originally posted by grey fox
Ok ok so i got the times wrong , thats not my main point though my point is , in other countries life means LIFE , ether you are killed (by chair/lethal injection) or you are in prison for the rest of your life .
Not in my country....and what would that help anybody, anyways?
So is the issue here that people are getting out sooner or that imprisonment isn't doing its job? I mean, does it matter how long you stay if the issue of... hm... What's the word I'm looking for? Healing? Reeducation? Something along those lines... If you simply "go away" for a crime, that's stupid, unless it's for an indefinate amount of time... Then it's at least safe for law-abiding citizens, if not exactly a punishment.
Life doesnt always mean life in the US either... just a couple of years ago a friend of mine had her cousin killed (brutally so) by a man who had recieved a life sentence in the 70's for... wait for it................. murder
He had been out less than a year before he committed a double homicide
So this is not a problem that knows geographical boundaries, seems to happen everywhere
And yes sadly many times the mandatory sentencing for drug crimes is much harsher than violent crimes
Originally posted by grey fox
Ok ok so i got the times wrong , thats not my main point though my point is , in other countries life means LIFE , ether you are killed (by chair/lethal injection) or you are in prison for the rest of your life .
The only industralised country in the world with Death Penalty is America and even there life doesnt always mean life.
For the rest of the Europe and Canada, life is 25 years in prison.