HunterCA
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ORIGINAL: subrob1967 FR Fuckin stupid arsed Brits. It could be different in the United States, dunno, but in England being deemed unfit to plead has been going on for centuries - the fact the man is black, or mixed race, not sure which; or adheres to whatever religion, is irrelevant. He won't see the light of day again. He'll be locked up in Broadmoor, Britain's premier institution for homicidal lunatics, for the rest of his days. No real difference in terms of sentence. In most of the US an inability to participate in their defense or an inability to tell right from wrong is the standard. I think in this instance I'd be willing to bet that the average American is more willing to accept someone is insane than your average Englishman. As an example, psychoanalysis took off in the United States but gained very little ground in England, here you share common ground with the Germans and other Central European countries. Generally we think mind reading is a load of bollocks - but you seem to go in for psychiatrists and the like. This idea that the mind can be investigated, understood and managed lends weight to the idea that someone is 'insane'. I'm fairly standard in terms of English thought, that being that these people aren't insane at all. It's comforting to some people to think that another person who takes pleasure in killing people, must be 'mad'. I think we all have the full range of emotions in us. And, it suits the people of the psychiatry industry for obvious reasons. What a scam. As it's a common English trait to be sceptical of anyone who lays claim to be able to read minds it applies to judges too, and very, very few murderers are deemed unfit to plead here. You may well be right, people here would rather see insane than evil. They feel more secure if people that do these things are an insane aberration than if they are evil. On the plus side, you do better at sentencing these people than we do. I watch the odd US crime show, and some of these people get 99 years. Christ, you'd have to blow up the world to get 99 years here! I think I prefer your form of justice. But here, 99 years means 33 years with good behavior. Usually an insanely long sentence like that really means the judge doesn't want you out until you're carried out. Generally, you serve a third to a half of your sentence.
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