Minimum & Mandatery Scufences
Apart from the special case of murder, we
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believe bat uuninim / randalry sentences
world wrongly curtail Courts' ability to
with exceptiond cases, where
daal justly
there
are
particularly strong vintrating
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they would
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be meningless. Setting Inan too ligh
could result in
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Guilty mon
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women might go
might go free as a result.
unat might be sem as excessive punishment,
Mandatory Sentence for Murder
The white Paper "Crime Justice & Protecting the Public" [Cm 965] anuancer the
Gavemment's decision
that the mandatory
sentence for the Crime I murder should remain the mass the heuiars nature
passage a разце tabled in the
J
I deliberately taking another person's life. During the
the CgAct 1991 amendments were
Ithe prossing the abolitin g the mandatory life sentence the (touse & Comuns -& the words in considering Caumms Reaons on 23 July - agreed with the livernment that the mandatory sentence should remain. The capital [PRO]