If you could pass one law....

No one single motorist should have any number of cars behind them within 200 yds except in a built up or residencial area.
Each and every council worker should be made totally responsible and held accountable for their actions.
Speed camera van operatives should have all their personnal contact details visible on the side of the vans, in large, easy to read letters and numbers.
 
Courtneyneild said:
Did you see the case of Cyntoia Brown in America. Was convicted of Murder at the age of 16 for shooting a guy who prostituted her. Was supposed to serve 51 years but then in 2017 the case became high profile with the like of rihanna and Kim Kardashian calling for her release and she was granted clemency in 2019
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I hadn't seen that case, no.
 
jimharri said:
Devil's advocate here. If a woman who has been beaten for years by her abusive partner, proceeds to kill him while he's asleep (and therefore, in no position to defend himself), would your law apply then? The fact she waits for him to be asleep (rather than reaching for a knife while he's raining fists and boots on her), when she knows he's defenceless, might lead a prosecutor to claim that the "manslaughter" option can be ruled out.

FWIW, I think most juries would not convict the woman of murder (I wouldn't). I'm just opening it up for a Mrs Merton style debate.
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Instead of cutting his throat, while he's asleep, she could perhaps slip out and go to a women's safety shelter?
 
yeseye said:
National service.
Get all these wasters off the streets and teach them some skills and respect .
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My late F-I-L, a professional soldier all his life, once told me that if he was ever in a trench under fire, the last person he would want alongside him would be some "No use, waste of space, conscript".
 
jimharri said:
Devil's advocate here. If a woman who has been beaten for years by her abusive partner, proceeds to kill him while he's asleep (and therefore, in no position to defend himself), would your law apply then? The fact she waits for him to be asleep (rather than reaching for a knife while he's raining fists and boots on her), when she knows he's defenceless, might lead a prosecutor to claim that the "manslaughter" option can be ruled out.

FWIW, I think most juries would not convict the woman of murder (I wouldn't). I'm just opening it up for a Mrs Merton style debate
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Abused women, even where it's classed as non-physical abuse, have so many different defences available to them now that it's almost legally impossible of them being convicted of murder in your scenario (evidence providing).

I take your point though and I agree that even the most vengeful of people would find it difficult to think that lifelong imprisonment was justified in every murder case.

I think what you've got to weigh up is whether it's worthwhile keeping a 65 year old guy in prison for another 20 years at a cost of £30k a year when he murdered someone 40 years ago in a moment of madness and when his physical and hormonal deterioration and hopefully mental rehabilitation means he's no longer at risk of committing the same crime.
 
I don't know what's it like in England but in Ireland if a T.D (M.P) loses his seat after an election he is entitled to a pension regardless of his age. This should change that they don't get their pension until everyone else gets their state pension
 
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