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Was all downhill ever since that beheading

• brailsafe 5y ago
  There aren't enough hills in the place where that happened.
• dankwizard 5y ago
  Sorry do you have a link for what this is referencing
  • tchanglington 5y ago
    The greyhound beheading incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
    • dankwizard 5y ago
      Oh wow, and the offender is now living freely since 2017. Good to know.
      • leemcd56 5y ago
        Wait WHAT
        • canadianfella 5y ago
          They Canadian “justice” system is ridiculous.
        • corin_ 5y ago
          The offender was found to be not criminally responsible due to extreme mental health problem, was put into secure treatment for long time, and eventually considered safe to be in society. Locking him up further would be purely revenge not justice.
          • TILMore 5y ago
            7 years is not long for beheading, defiling, and cannibalizing a stranger on a bus
            • corin_ 5y ago
              It's long in the context of how much mental health treatment they can have provided him over that time. If 7 years is how long it took to be sure he wouldn't reoffend, why go longer? It would be a waste of taxpayer money, it would worsen his life for no benefit, it wouldn't solve anything for society, and it wouldn't even be useful as a deterrent because I'm pretty sure he wasn't thinking about ROI of crime vs. potential punishment when committing the crime considering he believed God was ordering him to do it, and he didn't deny having done it. If mental health treatment were so far advanced that his problems could have been 100% cured within a month, I would have supported his being released after a month.
              • ecf 5y ago
                > it would worsen his life for no benefit Why are we talking about benefits for a person that beheaded and ATE someone?
                • corin_ 5y ago
                  It wouldn't bring any benefit to anyone (except maybe private prison companies). And also it's because he's still a person. A person who did a terrible thing while literally insane, but still a person.
                  • throwaway00127 5y ago
                    Letting him out definitely won't benefit society. The recidivism for "mentally insane" convicts is extremely high. It feels good, but it's like letting a drunk driver get back behind the wheel after they show remorse. The chances that they get in another DWI (and hurt someone) is high. It's also why we have sex offender registries. The recidivism is high.
      • King-Aaron 5y ago
        Jesus christ
• tinus_hn 5y ago
  Yeah I’m sure a year of lockdowns had nothing to do with it, as lockdowns are free, right?