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by tchanglington 1862 days ago
The greyhound beheading incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

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Oh wow, and the offender is now living freely since 2017. Good to know.
Wait WHAT
The offender was found to be not criminally responsible due to extreme mental health problem, was put into secure treatment for long time, and eventually considered safe to be in society. Locking him up further would be purely revenge not justice.
7 years is not long for beheading, defiling, and cannibalizing a stranger on a bus
It's long in the context of how much mental health treatment they can have provided him over that time.

If 7 years is how long it took to be sure he wouldn't reoffend, why go longer? It would be a waste of taxpayer money, it would worsen his life for no benefit, it wouldn't solve anything for society, and it wouldn't even be useful as a deterrent because I'm pretty sure he wasn't thinking about ROI of crime vs. potential punishment when committing the crime considering he believed God was ordering him to do it, and he didn't deny having done it.

If mental health treatment were so far advanced that his problems could have been 100% cured within a month, I would have supported his being released after a month.

> it would worsen his life for no benefit

Why are we talking about benefits for a person that beheaded and ATE someone?

Jesus christ