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Exactly.
So here is justice for me, and if I'm on the jury panel, this is what I'd want:
- death penalty for: 1st degree murder, rape, kidnapping, treason
- no sentence over 15 years. If it exceeds 20 years, sentence to death instead
- prisoner loses the right to vote for the rest of his life
- all prisoners will pay their own room and rent for as long as they have assets to do so, if they can't, they can be put to work
- unlimited self-defense. End-of-discussion. If the thug ends up dead, so much better. No need for lengthy, crappy appeals to protect the criminals.
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I think that is an excellent policy. Unfortunately we have something over here called the European Bill of Human Rights which means that there will never be any kind of punishment of these types. Even though criminals choose to live outside society and threaten society the toss pots in Brussels seem to think they should still be afforded all these lovely rights. But what about murder victims right to life? or burgulary victims right to defend his property - these, it would seem, are secondary.
Islam comes in for some heavy criticism but under Islamic law the criminal can be punished the same way he committed the crime "Eye for an Eye". I read about an Iranian man who threw acid in a womans face because she refused to marry him, causing blindness and disfugurement. So the court decided that he should have the same done to him. - Now thats justice.