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The law on murder and proposed reform
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Suzanne Bembridge The law on murder and proposed reform The law on murder is a mess and should be reviewed for the first time in more than half a century. A major overhaul is required including a re-think of whether murder should always carry a life sentence. It could be argued that one area which might be worth looking at is the question of whether or not it's right to have the same offence to cover cases where there is an intention to kill, as well as cases where there is not an intention to kill. A solution could be to grade the different types of murder and give them different recommended sentences so that the sentence reflects the seriousness of the offence. However, there is never any neat distinction between these cases, which you would need in order to do this. Also, the Home Office have said that mandatory life sentences...
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