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Chakab

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5. Get your facts straight before posting nonsense. Murder carries a mandatory life sentence

Reply to SkyDaddy7 (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 07:09 AM

Jun 2016

in the UK.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_-_mandatory_life_sentences_in_murder_cases/

Even if an offender is eventually released they will be on license (parole) and hence under strict supervision for life.

Many Americans seem to under the misconception that the lenient sentences and cushy prison conditions that exist in the Scandinavian countries exemplify the penal system in the rest of Europe and the UK. This is false.

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the UK has finally found a crime that they think Angel Martin Jun 2016 #1

You don't consider 25 years a stiff sentence? Bad Dog Jun 2016 #3

I was going to say the same thing! SkyDaddy7 Jun 2016 #4

Get your facts straight before posting nonsense. Murder carries a mandatory life sentence Chakab Jun 2016 #5

LOL! I love it when... SkyDaddy7 Jun 2016 #6

Good to see someone go to jail for this. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #2

I guess the UK doesn't value a "well regulated militia" as much as the U.S. yellowcanine Jun 2016 #7

We place no value in private armies whatsoever. Bad Dog Jun 2016 #8