US soldier gets 100 years for rape, murder

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Moorcock wrote something besides the Elric stories?!

quit learning stuff, dood, your head's gonna pop.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Christ...The London Blitz, when the Luftwaffe tried to demoralise the British by bombing London instead of focusing on RAF installations. The switch to civilian targets gave the RAF the respite they needed and pretty soon Operation Sealion was definitively shelved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

The Blitz is an important London myth. Goog ...[text shortened]... s" for some pictures. JG Ballard reckons that the British still haven't quite got over it...

JG Ballard's still alive!?!?

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
JG Ballard's still alive!?!?

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Published a novel last year, "Kingdom Come", about a revolution in shopping mall...

Check out the Re/Search book "JG Ballard: Conversations".

Originally posted by scottishinnz
As we say in Scotland, Shut yer puss. You are going on about communism for what reason precisely?

Some guys murder a little girls whole family, then rape her and murder her. They do this, not as a "crime of passion" or whatever, but in cold blood. It was a pre-meditated, planned act of brutality. And you think that 10 years is really a suitable ...[text shortened]... admitted being wrong in the past. I'm just not going to admit being wrong when I ain't.

What would a Brit receive if he raped a child and killed her parents. The same sentence right?

Originally posted by slimjim
What would a Brit receive if he raped a child and killed her parents. The same sentence right?

Considering the English introduced the concept of the "virgin cure" to Africa, I suspect nothing. At least not if the victims were non-European.

Originally posted by slimjim
What would a Brit receive if he raped a child and killed her parents. The same sentence right?

Probably a minimum of 20 - 25 years for a single murder. Longer for mass murder, especially coupled with rape.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Probably a minimum of 20 - 25 years for a single murder. Longer for mass murder, especially coupled with rape.

And they'd be eligible for parole. Here's two British murderers who were released in less than 8 years. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/22/bn.05.html