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What's The Point Of Calling It Life ?
Quote from link "Today, Atherton was jailed for life and told he will serve a minimum of 16 years behind bars."
The guy he killed won't return after 16 years. What is the point of labelling a sentence as life when it's never served. It's a deliberate deception to try to deceive sentencing critics - do they really think we're that daft ?
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There are currently around 70 prisoners in the UK serving "whole life" sentences. The longest serving of these is currently Robert Maudsely who was jailed for life in 1977 for murdering four people (three of whom he killed whilst serving a prison sentence for his first murder). Moors murderer Ian Brady served 51 years before dying in 2017.
I'm a firm believer that if you take somebody's life, then your life is taken away. I don't mean the death penalty, which I've never agreed with, I mean you are jailed until you die.
I find it an absurdity that a murderer can be freed after a number of years and then have freedom for the rest of their life for purposely taking a life.
Caveat - I mean murder, not manslaughter. I'm OK with somebody convicted of manslaughter being freed. Somebody could be convicted of manslaughter for punching somebody too hard in a dust-up.