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Should Lucy Letby have been allowed to miss her sentencing? (www.spectator.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm listening to LBC callers say that forcing the convict to attend their sentencing hearing 'smacks of medievalism'. All kinds of hell-fire would be unleashed if this law was overturned.

Yet in the US and other countries, convicts are forced to attend their sentencing hearings and the sky didn't fall. What is so fucking special about the UK?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

in general... giving people more freedom is not a bad thing

This is my stance. Before sentencing, we must give the defendant as much freedom as realistically possible (even in fringe cases where we 'know' beforehand that they'll die behind bars).