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I've decided that Australia should change it's tourism slogan to:
"If you wish to commit murder and not have the judge believe your assertion, but get off comparatively easy, come to Australia!"
Quote:DARWIN, Australia -- Four people convicted in the beating death of a woman during what they said was an exorcism ritual on a remote Australian island were sentenced Friday to several years in jail.
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Some of the accused had originally claimed that they beat Bara as part of an exorcism intended to cleanse her of the devil. But on Friday, Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Peter Barr said the accused attacked Bara simply to cause her pain and humiliation.
"I am not satisfied that any of the accused thought she had the devil in her," he said.
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I remember reading something somewhere that they are lax in their murder punishments. I believe I read about a case where a woman flayed her husband and tried to feed him to her kids (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) and was the first woman to get life without parole in 1955. There had to have been murders worthy of it before then.
Kathleen Folbigg killed four kids and got 30 years, only 25 without parole.
On a side note, they did use the death penalty until the turn of the century. It seems they are getting more lax. They should just send them into the wilderness with no water and no shoes.
(December 23, 2011 at 9:27 pm)Shell B Wrote: I remember reading something somewhere that they are lax in their murder punishments. I believe I read about a case where a woman flayed her husband and tried to feed him to her kids (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) and was the first woman to get life without parole in 1955. There had to have been murders worthy of it before then.
Kathleen Folbigg killed four kids and got 30 years, only 25 without parole.
On a side note, they did use the death penalty until the turn of the century. It seems they are getting more lax. They should just send them into the wilderness with no water and no shoes.
Well, even Anders Breivik, under current Norwegian law, won't get a sentence more than 20 years at most, probably.
Varg got away with killing Euronymous with 14 years, and boy you should have seen how he carved him up...
December 24, 2011 at 5:36 am (This post was last modified: December 24, 2011 at 5:37 am by KichigaiNeko.)
(December 23, 2011 at 7:29 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:
I've decided that Australia should change it's tourism slogan to:
"If you wish to commit murder and not have the judge believe your assertion, but get off comparatively easy, come to Australia!"
Quote:DARWIN, Australia -- Four people convicted in the beating death of a woman during what they said was an exorcism ritual on a remote Australian island were sentenced Friday to several years in jail.
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Some of the accused had originally claimed that they beat Bara as part of an exorcism intended to cleanse her of the devil. But on Friday, Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Peter Barr said the accused attacked Bara simply to cause her pain and humiliation.
"I am not satisfied that any of the accused thought she had the devil in her," he said.
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The judge thought that their rationalization was fake. Nothing like a maximum of seven years to teach the value of human life and doing nothing.
Sorry, Kichi and Zen, but your chosen country of residence manages to outbatshit mine through having a justice system like that.
And to think that Australia was peopled by aborigines and criminals. Nice to see that hasn't changed (for the criminals that is).
No need to apologise we were both born here...after all it IS a CONVICT Island and you still need a criminal record to get through Immigration...I give you all the Muslim fucknuckles that are arriving by boat here.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
(December 23, 2011 at 9:27 pm)Shell B Wrote: I remember reading something somewhere that they are lax in their murder punishments. I believe I read about a case where a woman flayed her husband and tried to feed him to her kids (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) and was the first woman to get life without parole in 1955. There had to have been murders worthy of it before then.
"mummy mummy I dont like dad"
"Never mind dear, just push him to the side and eat your chips"
Quote: Glenys Wurrawilya, Susie Wurrawilya, Paul Wurramara and Roderick Mamarika pleaded guilty to negligent manslaughter in connection with the beating, which several children witnessed.Groote Eylandt, home to an Aboriginal and mining community of around 1,500, is about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the northern Australia mainland.
They were Aboriginal and so are treated VERY leniently..thanks to the interference of the UN...poor oppressed individuals that they are.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5