Comments on: Masters: How Long is a Life Sentence?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:29:26 +0000

I fail to find the correlation between capital punishment and a deterrent. I’m also confused how you can cite a reference to the devil which has me assume you are religious and ask another human being to kill another (capital punishment). I’m pretty sure its not a stretch to say we all know some formation of the law. I’m sure we’re aware of the penalties etc. So slap on capital punishment please and then show me why this matters. If you genuinely feel life imprisonment is a slap on the wrist I beg you to have your freedom deprived for LIFE or “15 years” if you will and then comment. So if the option for capital punishment is there would it prevent murders? You can ask american states that use capital punishment how that theory is working out for them.

By: YungNthuggin

YungNthuggin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:17:29 +0000

oh you people didnt know?? lol maybe if you didnt read the news for all your information and actually knew people, you would know these things..

furhtermore, a jail year is 8 months..pick the bones out of that one..

By: White Jesus

White Jesus — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:22:06 +0000

Thanks Kyle! I personally feel that if you must take a persons entire freedom away for the rest of their life then you are practically taking their life. The only difference is that we are clothing, feeding and housing them. Is it not better, for them and society, to simply put them in the ground along with the ‘life’ they sent there; i.e. murdered? The fact that we have these large prisons to cage human beings like animals is a compromise in itself. We allow criminals to change the sanctity of freedom. Humans were not meant to live in cages and we shouldn’t agree to put them there. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT! Live here in peace, or leave here in a three piece!

By: PAS

PAS — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:39:58 +0000

Are there any stats on what people actually serve in Bermuda? e.g. average time inside, least time ever served, etc.

By: US Observer

US Observer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:36:41 +0000

@ Are you serious…I totally agree 100%. If we changed the laws that say “LIFE IS LIFE” no questions asked then I think people will certainly think once, not twice prior to doing something stupid. How dare the legal system PIMP the pubic in thinking that life is not exactly what life means?

By: US Observer

US Observer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:22:55 +0000

Thank you Kyle for the information. You are doing a great community service deed by posting this. Let’s take this topic a step further…

It is my opinion that we really should be looking at the word “life”. What happened to the person’s “life” that was taken by someone who is still alive and breathing? The person or persons who took the “life” of someone else, when granted parole they are still allowed to live, work and carry on with their “life”. 15 years is nothing compared to an entire “life” that can never be brough back to the “life” they could still be living.

“Life” to me and I’m sure to many people means just that..”life”. You have “no chance” or “no opportunity” of having the “life” you once had prior to the sentence. Wouldn’t a “life sentence” mean that since someone took a life then your life no longer exist – Eye for an Eye?

By: Are you serious . . .

Are you serious . . . — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:22:16 +0000

Thanks for the clarity, but what a shame!!! Maybe that’s why younger and younger boys are being recruited to commit these heinous crimes of murder . . . think about it . . . at 20 years old, you get sentenced to life and do the minimum of 15 years, you are coming out at 35. You still have your whole life ahead of them versus the family of the life they took begin serving an eternal sentence from the day their loved one was murdered.

Maybe we need to take a look at this and add an alternative to life to life without parole and/or life without a day, which would allow the judge to enter harsher sentence. Maybe when they see that “life without a day” means that you sit in jail to the day you die and then have a government funeral in a pine box, these young people might think twice about their actions . . .

By: Thanks

Thanks — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:05:35 +0000

By the way thanks for the information on life Sentences, it is clearer to me now, but still feel that “life” is not good enough of a deterrant.

By: Thanks

Thanks — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:04:27 +0000

In these times we need to bring back Capital Punishment, a life sentence for these murderers is just too easy. They have the audacity to take someone’s life, some get away with it and those that go on trial get a slap on the wrist (in my opinion)with a ‘life” sentence, there needs to be a greater deterrant for people even thinking of doing these crimes. Its so sad because at the end of it all, they will be judged by the most High and the consequences they will ultimately pay then. THey need to stop living for today, its upsetting to know that they have no care in the world for what really lies ahead, the Devil is trying to take over and these losers are listening to him….the Devil is a liar.

By: W.T.F.???

W.T.F.??? — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:01:43 +0000

Life should mean LIFE INSIDE…
and you are NEVER coming back out into society..

By: Hunterp

Hunterp — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:58:46 +0000

Very Informative

By: Quinton

Quinton — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:06 +0000

Thanks for the explanation Kyle!