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Re: English Justice? - Or lack of it?
Who said the system is good? It is what it is. Show me a better one. "Unquestionably guilty" has sent many an innocent man to the gallows. Who is to decide? Again, it's the rule of law versus the rule of man. I'll take the former with its imperfections.
The perpetrators were 10 at the time of the crime, not 13. If they were 6 or 8 would you still want to hang them? Where is the cut off? I don't have an answer to that question, but I couldn't be the hangman for a child of 10. And I have serious misgivings about anyone who could be.
There is never justice for the victims. No amount of punishment brings back the dead. I don't think that these two should have their freedom, but if that is the law of a civilized nation then that is the law. Depriving anyone of their rights under existing law is the first step to tyranny.
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