(No-) Justice System

[embah]

For a while now, I've been greatly annoyed how little time criminals spend in jail. Now a days, a murderer might only get 18 months all up, though be set free after 12 months for "good behaviour", which I think is both unfair and disrespectful to their victims, society, and the families of victims.

I can't remember the specific articles, but one day I remember I was reading the paper, and right beside each other they had two articles, one about a mass murderer who had been sent to jail for 18 months, for killing (I can't remember exactly) around 8 people, and then they had some one who had an illegal use of drugs or something, and was sent to jail for almost 4 years. Honestly, that's just plain dumb and injustice!

Besides that, I know that you can't charge someone with assault of any kind unless the victim presses the charges, but I've read numerous articles and news reports about people paying off others to cover it up and so they weren't charged, even though they had had previous criminal records of the same nature. For example; the first time Michael Jackson was charged with sexual assualt, he paid off the victims family so he was let off.

What are your views on this subject?

[embah]

Wierd. Can you read minds? Jus this morning I was thinking to myself, who's worse? The Briber or the person who takes the bribe? I think both are equally bad, though than again, the person who takes the bribe often knows that what that other person did was wrong, but still, they accept the money.
When you think of it, It's a pretty sick world we live in today. I mean, everday I hear news-reports of people who have raped a 1 year old kid or killed an old, frail woman. It's sick.

I think that whether or not a murderer gets a life sentence or only 25 to 50 years, or even less depends on the circumstances of the crime itself, but I still think that if one person kills someone, they should give their life in return, whether it's a life sentence or the death penalty.

Which brings me to my next question. Do you think that if someone commits a crime in another country other than their own, should they go to jail in that country where the crime was committed, or return to a jail in their home country?
I think that they should go to trial and jail in the country where they committed the crime, because they disrespected that country and the people in it, by flying, sailing or whatever over and killing someone of the local society there, B&E' ing (breaking and enetering), or some other crime.

What are your thoughts?

[embah]

I see your point. By the leaving the country thing, I'm not referring to any particular case, it's just something I heard (somewhere, I don't remember).
If some one travelled to a place like north korea or east timor, or some undeveloped country like that, and they say.......murdered 30 people, I think they should go to trial in that country to bring justice to the residents, but if it was something smaller, like theft or assault, I see your point that they should return to their home country.

I still don't get it how those parents accepted that bribe, but still, it was all over the papers and no one did anything about it!
But I do know that, because of what happened with the michael jackson/bribery case, it has been made a law so that it can't happen again, so maybe it was good that he bribed them (although I do still object to it), so that this new law can prevent it happening to anyone else again.

[embah]

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that wherever you are in the world, you get a trial, even if it's just to look fair.