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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Actually as far as I can see it wasn't. I don't recall any legislation saying that instead of hanging life in prison would mean dying in prison.
There are plenty of examples of legislation being tightened up though and becoming more draconian
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When the act was passed outlawing the death penalty it was replaced with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment and we were told at the time it would mean just that,
rest of their life, steadily though it's gone down and down, rape a baby these days and be out in 5 years, murder some one and you'd be unlucky to get a 15 year sentence, it's not what was intended, very far from it.
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In nothing more than your opinion
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No not my opinion, she played a leading role at government committee level from everything from special needs education to embryology, if people didn't listen to her opinions there'd be something wrong.