Levy whole life sentence

[HKOwen]

Suppose he lives 30 years, cost to taxpayer £2 million at least.

This animal has no chance of rehabilitation.

The blindness in one eye was caused by a prison attack, not any illness yet was used as a reason to grant him bail.

He was long term unemployed.


Met Police now blaming the courts rather than accepting responsibility.

Rowley is symptomatic of the problem, no accountability for mistakes.

Remember he described the hounding of a journalist investigating the grifter Arday as " dropping the ball "

Someone build a gallows for Levy please.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

In order for evil to triumph, you only need the good men to do nothing" ....Edmund Burke

 

[Badger11]

Suppose he lives 30 years, cost to taxpayer £2 million at least.

This animal has no chance of rehabilitation.

The blindness in one eye was caused by a prison attack, not any illness yet was used as a reason to grant him bail.

He was long term unemployed.


Met Police now blaming the courts rather than accepting responsibility.

Rowley is symptomatic of the problem, no accountability for mistakes.

Remember he described the hounding of a journalist investigating the grifter Arday as " dropping the ball "

Someone build a gallows for Levy please.

In principle I have nothing against the death penalty. However it is the practicalities that need to be defined.

- When and to who will it apply. The police are keen for the murder of a police officer. However doesn't that mean the law putting a greater value on one person over another e.g. kill a nurse you get life, kill a copper...
- Who decides, a judge or the jury. If a judge or if it automatic for a guilty verdict is there a possibility of a rogue jury finding a person not guilty because they don't believe in the death penalty? This happened in Victorian times.*
- How many appeals. The US system is inhuman and often takes decades before a prisoner is executed due to countless appeals.
- Method of execution.

If I can be satisfied on these points then I am all for it.

*Hence the expression you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb

 

[HKOwen]

In principle I have nothing against the death penalty. However it is the practicalities that need to be defined.

- When and to who will it apply. The police are keen for the murder of a police officer. However doesn't that mean the law putting a greater value on one person over another e.g. kill a nurse you get life, kill a copper...
- Who decides, a judge or the jury. If a judge or if it automatic for a guilty verdict is there a possibility of a rogue jury finding a person not guilty because they don't believe in the death penalty? This happened in Victorian times.*
- How many appeals. The US system is inhuman and often takes decades before a prisoner is executed due to countless appeals.
- Method of execution.

If I can be satisfied on these points then I am all for it.

*Hence the expression you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb

A properly thought out set of rules can eliminate a lot of the potential problems. If certain criteria are met then the judge has only one sentence he can deliver, any appeal would have to be fast tracked so the condemned are dispatched quickly. I doubt it would be that many cases a year.

The criteria could be tested against say the previous five years convictions where the death penalty would have applied had it been in force.