Get your facts straight before posting nonsense. Murder carries a mandatory life sentence (Reply #5)

In the discussion thread: Harry Shilling: UK gun smuggler jailed for 30 years [View all]

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 07:09 AM

Chakab (1,727 posts)

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

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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8 replies	Author	Time	Post
Harry Shilling: UK gun smuggler jailed for 30 years [View all]	Bad Dog	Jun 2016	OP
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

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