http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23230419

3 convicted Serial Killers have won an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights against "whole-life tariffs" were they are sentenced to jail for the rest of their life without possibility of parole (except on compassionate grounds). One is convicted of killing five family members, another four gay men 'for sexual gratification' and the third admitted killing his wife AFTER having already spent nine years in prison for murdering a colleague. That someone should be released after 9 years for murder to kill again then to be released again in the future is sickening.

I don't believe in the Death Penalty due to the risk of executing an innocent, however when the Death Penalty was abolished in this country the idea was that life sentences would serve instead. Then the concept of a life-sentence has been eroded again and again until ultimately we've had to use the term "whole-life" sentence to mean what life itself should mean (and only 49 people in the entire country have such a sentence) but instead now that too is illegal.

When the European Convention on Human Rights was passed we had the Death Penalty, the Convention was passed to prevent a repeat of the abuses of Nazi and other regimes that had just happened not to mean murderers must have the possibility of being released. Murderers unless acquitted should not be released and bullshit like this court case if anything tempts me to want to see a restoration of the Death Penalty instead.