Does a sentence of life without parole always mean just that, or are there situations / circumstances where that may not always be the case ?
Does a sentence of life without parole always mean just that, or are there situations / circumstances where that may not always be the case ?
Justice should not depend on the size of your bank balance or colour of your skin !
Are you asking if the sentence can be reduced? If so yes, it happens regularly.
"There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche
All you need is the libs to challenge it as cruel and unusual and LWOP goes away.
"I am the warden! Get your warden off this gurney and shut up! You are not in America. This is the island of Barbados. People will see you doing this." Monty Delk's last words.
The main reason I support the death penalty is so that it stays the shiny object drawing liberal eyes so as to keep the heat off LWOP, which for most punks is good enough. That and to have something to dangle over the head of spies to ensure better cooperation when cleaning up their messes.
– On the very previous comment:
Not at all. The parole process in European countries is not different than in the United States. Even "extension" of imprisonment as in Norway is in practice identical to civil commitment in the U.S, and both are conducted in the same way as parole hearings.
It is not a penalty, as life without parole is, for deterrence and retribution, and for which victims are sure they will not have to wonder at regular intervals whether it will or will not continue to be enforced.
Such sentences don’t exist in European countries, and would become the next target of some elites in the United States if the death penalty disappeared.
The so-called European "court of human rights" indeed already banned life imprisonment without parole. For all crimes.
Retaining the death penalty, even if applied rarely and randomly, is the only way to not grant to every killer an absolute right to regular parole hearings.
It is also an important advantage of the death penalty, that it allows justice to impose life sentences without parole for some cases of plea-bargained murder. And for non-homicidal crimes such as child rape, without unbalancing the scale of penalties.
– On the original question asked by this thread:
Once final, a sentence of life without parole, like all other penalties, can be reduced only by a new law or Executive clemency, and that’s not regular because the death penalty exists. And true it is that such reduction cannot happen for a death sentence once carried out, which is another argument for enforcing the death penalty for horrific crimes.
Last edited by Steven AB; 10-19-2022 at 01:50 PM.
"If ever there were a case for a referendum, this is one on which the people should be allowed to express their own views and not irresponsible votes in the House of Commons." — Winston Churchill, on the death penalty
The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal
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