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  • 33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted on Friday of killing seven babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in England.

  • A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read "I killed them on purpose".

  • Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.

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[-] Urbanfox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's not this specific case that suggests why killing prisoners is wrong, but others where it's not so cut and dry..

A man was recently pardoned after years in prison for a crime he did not commit - he was on a whole life sentence.

If killing someone for their crimes becomes legal, this man may have been killed for a crime he didn't commit and would never have seen a free day again.

By maintaing the system currently in place where we don't kill prisoners, there is the opportunities for miscarriages of justice to be somewhat rectified.

Can't bring a man back from the dead, but we can give him a million pounds for the false imprisonment and his freedom for the rest of his days.

[-] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I never said she needs to be put to death or advocated for such, I just hope she never gets out so that she can harm another person. Anyway, I assumed they didn't have the death penalty in Britain.

[-] Urbanfox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My bad, I made an assumption based on the earlier stance in the thread of this woman getting the death penalty.

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