Eye For An Eye

[wreckedit]

They should change the wording of the Human Rights title to......

.......................HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY..................... in the hope that all parties cases are looked into.

Say....It is every persons responsibility not to harm or kill another person but in the event they do then the perpetrator of the crime must be made responsible for the other parties well being in some way. This is not revenge if the person responsible was made aware before they choose the life path of crime they went down.

Very often low levels of compensation are no where near the suffering that victims go through.

 

[joe-90]

It is correct to help the victim.

 

[LooPrEvil]

Let the victim decide the punishment.

Obviously some people will argue for the victims rights, but quite often that is because they just want to be argumentative.

 

[sooey]

Can't agree with the sentiment of this thread. It makes us just as bad as the perpetrator. Justice isn't about revenge.

I'd rather see all his assets confiscated and given to the victim. He should then spend at least 10 years in a very tough prison doing 'hard labour' and when released all his future earnings to go to the victim - if he doesn't work - he goes back for another 10 years hard labour.

That sounds more like justice to me and actually benefits his victim.

This girl was offered the chance to take financial compensation from the pr*ck, she refused it to take satisfaction instead. Good on her.

 

[thatbloke]

Another problem with this kind of punishment (perhaps not this particular case) is it can be abused. What if the punished person was later found to be innocent? And the lady made it up and was blinded through an accident?
What then?

 

[sooey]

There's always a "what if".

 

[thatbloke]

There's always a "what if".

What if you were wrongly accused of chucking acid in someones face and they had you on a slab ready to do the same?
I know I would be thoroughly ****ed.

 

[joinerjohn]

There's always a "what if".

What if you were wrongly accused of chucking acid in someones face and they had you on a slab ready to do the same?
I know I would be thoroughly p****d.

Here's another "What If."
What if, it had happened here in the UK?
The perpetrator would probably have got a few years in prison and ordered to be deported when his sentence was finished. Meanwhile, Cherie Blair would take his case on . under Human Rights legislation, and save him from being deported , because he has a right to a family life here (even though he doesn't have a family as such, rather he has a budgie in a cage, and a penpal he writes to occasionally)
Only in this country do criminals seem to have far more human rights than the victims ever do.

 

[LooPrEvil]

And to add insult to injury, the offender will be given a wad of compensation from the Public Purse.

 

[joinerjohn]

Yep, you know it's true Loo.
Any other country in the EU, he'd be out on his a**e

 

[Norcon]

Why render him unconscious?

Just slosh a bucket of acid in his face like he did to her.

 

[r.bartlett]

Can't agree with the sentiment of this thread. It makes us just as bad as the perpetrator. Justice isn't about revenge.

I'd rather see all his assets confiscated and given to the victim. He should then spend at least 10 years in a very tough prison doing 'hard labour' and when released all his future earnings to go to the victim - if he doesn't work - he goes back for another 10 years hard labour.

That sounds more like justice to me and actually benefits his victim.

You may like to consider if the law was there before the crime then it cannot be considered revenge. If it's the law then it is not revenge -it's justice. You may not like their version of justice but that's your problem not theirs.
(some may also consider your version of justice barbaric...)

 

[LastMagicBean]

So he gets an acid 'drop' in his eye whilst unconscious.
No disfigurement, pain and panic.???

QUOTE:
the man would be blinded only in one eye because "each man is worth two women" under Iranian law.

Technically an eye for an eye ........But hardly justice.

I agree with norcon. Slosh him.

 

[adlplumbing]

the problem with our law is this
we favour the crimnal over the victim
this is wrong we gave up death sentce on the privios that life means life
well it does not
my mate got pushed in front train on platform 14 manchester picadilly
trev
they guy who did it got 3 years reason he was on drugs at the time
so where the justice in this
another mate matt got run over on the pavement by a boy racer who lost control got less than 6months
then got onto colledge course with his sister and took the **** out of it
but weirdly he left colledge very soon wonder why?

so their is no justice in this country as far as i am concered so their is case for vigilanty actions
as law is their to protect the inconnet so in this country it has failed keeps failing and getting worse
so i do not have any problems with other countrys being harsh as it better than ours

 

[imamartian]

as others have said, the only problem with this is in a lot of cases, it's impossible to be 100% sure you have the pereptrator. And what if you do slosh acid on someone and it turns out they didn't do it?
What i do agree with is that prison sentences should be very harsh, both a deterrent and a punishment..... and at least if new evidence proves a wrongdoing, we can let them out and give them compo to at least try and make up fior it?