What is a fair punishment for murderers?

[Pommer]

That’s unfortunate.

How cryptic of you.

 

[Larniavc]

Some time ago an American woman drove out of an airport in the UK,

onto the wrong side of the road, collided with a motorcyklist and he died-

Anyone know what happened to her?

She fled to America and is still there. She was a member of an Intelligence agency or some such.

The young man she killed remains dead.

 

[Occams Barber]

She fled to America and is still there. She was a member of an Intelligence agency or some such.

The young man she killed remains dead.

@Robban

Almost - she was the wife of a US Intelligence officer based in London. She fled to the US after the accident where the US Administration gave her diplomatic immunity.

She was eventually talked into allowing herself to be tried by a British Court but attended the trial via video from the US. She admitted culpability and was given an 8-month suspended sentence, reduced from the maximum of 5 years, based on her guilty plea and previous good character.

OB

U.K. court sentences U.S. woman Anne Sacoolas over car crash that killed British teenager Harry Dunn

Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road in England and hit Dunn on his motorcycle.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[anetazo]

Bleeding hearts out of ignorance, don't want Capitol punishment. God wants the murderer or rapist put to death. So He can judge the person. Kidnapping is another one. Those who commit capital crimes, are to be put to death. It's God's law.
Documentation, exodus 21:12
Exodus 21:16
Leviticus 24:17
Matthew 5:17. Jesus did not abolish the law.

 

[Whyayeman]

Bleeding hearts out of ignorance, don't want Capitol punishment.

My view does not come from ignorance. Capital punishment has been abolished in every advanced country including most of the USA. Every country that has got rid of the death sentence has its reasons.

In the UK it was abolished sixty years ago. One reason was that juries became ever more reluctant to convict murderers in the knowledge that their verdict guaranteed it. There is no pressure to bring it back.