Often we hear where justice appears to be lenient in its dealings with the bad guys. It is therefore pleasing to hear that these two evil individuals have lost their full term appeals and will die in prison. Should this be the outcome more often?
Good news indeed, but one has to ask why aren't all such killers given the same sentence, that being that they are never released and must die in prison?
From the point of view that the judges appear to have taken - that these men still pose a real threat to society, then I am entirely in agreement with their life terms.
I don't take any pleasure from the fact that these men are locked up - it doesn't bring their victims back, or deter anyone else, and I try very hard not to allow my instincts as a parent to overide justice and substitute revenge.
can you reference any "such killers" (ie where the brutality and the circumstances are equal to these two) and where a full life term hasn't been applied?
It could be argued that H's crimes were part of being a 'professional criminal' rather than gratuitous and sadistic crimes against children; but the difficulty is trying to compare one type of s h1 t with another.
HR's 30 years was in actuality 48 years inside demonstrating that 'soft' sentences aren't necessarily so - and as he is on his last legs it was as near as dammit is 'Whole Life
ludwig - "// I don't take any pleasure from the fact that these men are locked up //
I do, and I don't think that makes me a bad person either".
Absolutely not ludwig - I simply have to post as I feel, but I am never in the business of trying to make anyone see things my way - even though some people on here think the opposite!!