Now That Is What I Can A Sentence............

[wolf63]

The Cleveland kidnapper has been sentenced for his crimes and the sentence looks appropriate

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/01/like-prisoners-of-war-cleveland-kidnap-victims-diaries-reveal-how-ariel-castro-tormented-captives/

[marval]

Apart from capital punishment, that is the best punishment for him.

[tonyav]

Yep, a proper sentence.

[tonyav]

wolf, should that not read Call A sentence. ?

[wolf63]

:-) Tony

I read an article the other week about the Apostrophe ~ people seem to take it all very seriously. It was a boring article.

[tonyav]

LOL, I'm not taking it seriously wolf, just ribbing you ;-)

[Psybbo]

Wolf, Tony for best answer

[jim360]

Wonder if he'll get half the sentence remitted for good conduct?

[jno]

I suppose it makes judges and victims feel better, but otherwise it's all a bit pointless, isn't it?

Anyway, he'll probably be out on parole in 500 years.

[bazwillrun]

Thats the way to do it

shame our spineless courts and legal system cant shake off the shackles of the echr and do the same

[zebo]

Here, he'd claim a right to family life and probably get off with a stiff talking to.

[berniecuddles]

if it had been over here human rights would have seen him out in 2 weeks a farce our laws at the moment!

[Spoonboy]

A thousand years is still not enough for what he subjected his victims to: he should also be castrated while in prison.

[murraymints]

Man's a monster...he will never be free thank goodness ..

[WELSHYORKIE]

'I have an addiction to sex' - some defence, that one! Chop off his bits'n'bobs and let him rot in hell

[emmie]

justice is done, those poor girls

[mikey4444]

I think he should have received at twice as long a sentence. Or maybe be three times !

[aelmpvw]

Makes the law look an ass doesn't it, passing out unservable sentences. Why don't they just say life meaning life?

[jake-the-peg]

It's a bit like the way they dug up Oliver Cromwell and hung him after he died.

Well that showed him didn't it!

BBC did an article on what the point of silly sentences was

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23495284

[emmie]

that was for the people's benefit, they did that to show what they thought of Cromwell, it matters not he was already dead.

[jim360]

I don't think you can blame "human rights" for saying that he wouldn't have received such a sentence here, although I may be missing something, I'm not a lawyer. Wonder what NJ's opinion is.

Anyhow, this man appears to have been sentenced to life followed by over 900 consecutive other sentences totaling 1,000 years (though that figure is just symbolic). In the UK consecutive sentences are allowed, but discouraged, under a judgement from our own Court of Appeal. In turn this judgement is based on a UK act, that passed through the UK Parliament, based on consultations carried out in the UK. Given their timing it's possible that the Human Rights Act might sneak into there somewhere, but if so I've not seen any evidence for it.

As for "human rights" allowing him to be released in two weeks -- stuff and nonsense, and I think you know it bernie. One of the reasons that Ariel Castro will never be released is because he agreed to that condition, waiving his right to parole, to avoid a death sentence. Even a right to parole does not mean a right to release, and given the lack of remorse Castro has shown he'd almost certainly never be released in this country either.

Given that the life sentence itself is without parole, the extra 1,000 years on top is pure tokenism.