I normally don’t write about social commentary, since sharing my opinion is not the point of this site, but I was reading on Wikipedia today that the UKs oldest prisoner died today. He served 55 years of his life sentence, a term I believe he has now fulfilled. The reason this is worth noting is there was side note in the article that the EU is considering banning life sentences, since they are “cruel and inhumane”. The EU doesn’t have the death penalty, which means if they ban life sentences a large part of the Western world will no longer have any means to ensure the certain individuals can never reenter society. That seems like bad planning, some people are simply too evil or broken to be loosed on the world.
The man who died, and is the mourned since he died in prison, was sent to prison for strangling two little girls, crimes he confessed too, but showed no remorse for. Then at one point he broke out and in the four hours he was free he might have murdered a little girl as she rode her bike. I will leave it you to decide if his one life is sufficient payment for the 3 young lives he stole.
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