Factually incorrect - "... A charge of manslaughter was withdrawn by the State ..." and the mother plead guilty to " ... the wilful ill-treatment of her daughter ..." according to the report you linked to; the judge sentenced accordingly.... Mother murders her 3yo child ...
Mandatory sentencing in line with what - the crime the accused is found guilty of or what you imagine they should have been charged with in the first place?... It still highlights the need for mandatory sentencing.
Mandatory sentencing in line with what - the crime the accused is found guilty of or what you imagine they should have been charged with in the first place?
I'm always amused when having this discussion with certain people who insist that the way to prevent these crimes is through preventative measures such as education and addressing the social issues involved. All pretty wishy-washy to me and not easily measured. I think a "serious" list of offences should be drawn up with mandatory sentencing of life (not 20 years, but the actual remainder of the criminal's life). I think the message would get through to these people fairly quickly if a few of their contemporaries went down...call it education if you will
Anyone who believes the judiciary in this country is there to implement the Law is fooling themselves. Real criminals get the softly softly approach as you can guarantee they'll keep helping to perpetuate the corrupt system we have in place. More crime = maintenance of the status quo. Jobs for Judges, Barristers, Solicitors, Gardaí, career politicians, Social workers, Prison Officers etc etc.
Its not profitable to rehabilitate or to try nip problems in the bud.
I've said it before but I strongly believe that all crime should be punished. That would be a start.
I don't see why all things being roughly equal, judges cannot then agree on realistic mandatory minimum sentences, and adhere to them.
Mitigating circumstances?
Would it though? Not as if the death penalty has stopped people murdering and raping.
What about a new "Celebrity Kill a Criminal" phone-in TV show?... Have no idea what the solution is though.......
Prison is where we send people who murder and rape, why do people compare prison sentences with crime rates? If someone murders or rapes they belong in prison where they can't do it again.
What about a new "Celebrity Kill a Criminal" phone-in TV show?
Each week a 5 or 6 criminals (in less enlightened times these might have been referred to as "suspects", "accused persons" or "defendants") appear on the show and a panel of experts presents the evidence against them. This panel of experts could be drawn from the editorial or speaking staff (most of them can't write so they have to speak and / or appear on the telly or radio) of the most illustrious organs of the 4th estate. I'd suggest limiting this to the staff of those publications renowned for their honesty, decency, accuracy, fairness, absence of biased hysterical xenophobic headlines and with a demonstrable focus on public-spiritedness, for example The "Oirish" Daily Mail / Male of a Sunday, The Sun, The Star, The Sindo, Sunday's Worst, NOTW.
Nominations for the show could be published (on page 2 to try to guarantee they are seen) and voted on via nomination phone-ins / txts / tweets. The evidence of criminality presented on the show will consist of unedited newspaper articles, headlines, pictures, ramblings from internet blogs, twitterings, radio phone-in programmes and other unsubstantiated nonsense. Rebuttal evidence will be presented solely by the criminals and a lack of ability to communicate in semi-literate, almost-understandable English like the "meeja types" will be used as additional evidence of criminality.
After each show the drones, sorry I meant the viewing public, phone the premium lines advertised and vote for :
The Criminal of the Week will then be killed using the Death Method of the Week at the Venue of the Week with the switch / injection / trigger / rope being activated by the winning drone voter, selected "randomly" (yeah, right).
- Criminal of the Week
- Death Method of the Week
- Venue of the Week.
The government can dispose of the Gardai, the judiciary, prisons, criminal lawyers, prison officers, probation officers and make huge revenues from the phone-lines and by selling tickets to events at the Venue of the Week.
What about a new "Celebrity Kill a Criminal" phone-in TV show?
Each week a 5 or 6 criminals (in less enlightened times these might have been referred to as "suspects", "accused persons" or "defendants") appear on the show and a panel of experts presents the evidence against them. This panel of experts could be drawn from the editorial or speaking staff (most of them can't write so they have to speak and / or appear on the telly or radio) of the most illustrious organs of the 4th estate. I'd suggest limiting this to the staff of those publications renowned for their honesty, decency, accuracy, fairness, absence of biased hysterical xenophobic headlines and with a demonstrable focus on public-spiritedness, for example The "Oirish" Daily Mail / Male of a Sunday, The Sun, The Star, The Sindo, Sunday's Worst, NOTW.
Nominations for the show could be published (on page 2 to try to guarantee they are seen) and voted on via nomination phone-ins / txts / tweets. The evidence of criminality presented on the show will consist of unedited newspaper articles, headlines, pictures, ramblings from internet blogs, twitterings, radio phone-in programmes and other unsubstantiated nonsense. Rebuttal evidence will be presented solely by the criminals and a lack of ability to communicate in semi-literate, almost-understandable English like the "meeja types" will be used as additional evidence of criminality.
After each show the drones, sorry I meant the viewing public, phone the premium lines advertised and vote for :
The Criminal of the Week will then be killed using the Death Method of the Week at the Venue of the Week with the switch / injection / trigger / rope being activated by the winning drone voter, selected "randomly" (yeah, right).
- Criminal of the Week
- Death Method of the Week
- Venue of the Week.
The government can dispose of the Gardai, the judiciary, prisons, criminal lawyers, prison officers, probation officers and make huge revenues from the phone-lines and by selling tickets to events at the Venue of the Week.
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