>> I realise it is an obvious thing to say, but what a truly terrible thing
>> it is to take someone's life.
It's devastatingly awful and incompressible to me in these circumstances.
But I do think there is a difference to this type of crime and a fight that goes wrong or an argument where someone gets a kitchen knife from a drawer in a fit of anger.
Mrs Z was a "paralegal" for a firm of solicitors who had a small number of murderers as clients. One was just that, a fight that went wrong. The person admitted it right away. Was devastated at what he had done and accepted his time. I understand that he is out on licence and contributing to society through volunteering work.
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>> I am sure this guy is sick/ill, how could he not be?, but I don't
>> think that should protect him from any repercussions.
Life in Broadmoor or similar perhaps? Sees it as a better option than prison?
>>The death penalty is flawed in many ways
Could you just imagine the coverage from the Daily Mail and that ilk. I don't think anyone would be safe from them baying for the death-penalty for every murder - and there have been people acquitted on appeal recently - too late once hanged.
Just as an aside, I understand the Home Secretary was very pro the death penalty.
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