'Lord Phillips said the effect of the sentencing guidelines in the Criminal Justice Act had been "in many cases almost to double the length of time that those convicted of murder will stay in prison. In 30 years' time, the prisons will be full of geriatric lifers."' Guardian, 10 March, 2007.
Good. Why should old people or pensioners be able to murder and get out of a prison sentence? If it is wrong for a geriatric lifer to be incarcerated, someone who is convicted of murder at, say age 69, as Lord Phillips is, they should not be imprisoned (sic).
Maybe I am being harsh, but such an authoritative person (Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Master of the Rolls and President of The Queen's Bench Division) should realise that how long a person stays in prison and how old a person is in prison are completely different issues of justice. By definition, a murderer's victim does not have the privilege of aging that society in mercy grants the convicted killer.
Out of order, Judge, 69. There is no retirement age for murderers.
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