BBC News - Murder life sentences questioned in attitudes research
Professors Barry Mitchell from Coventry Uni and Professor Julian Roberts from Oxford Uni who have been researching into prison sentencing, have said that most people questioned didn't think life should mean life for murder, they sure as hell didn't ask me. To my mind anyone who commits crime when armed and a death occurs should never see the light of day again, the same goes for premeditated murder and the murder of children. Say hat you want about the US of A but they certainly make the punishment fit the crime, you quite often here life without the chance of parole, and that's the way it should be here too