{"id":997,"date":"2005-12-21T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/113516704714318690\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T11:58:00","slug":"113516704714318690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/113516704714318690\/","title":{"rendered":"113516704714318690"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Call me a fascist by all means, but I&#8217;d say if a killer has &#8220;incomplete moral development of mental functioning&#8221; (a description that could be applied to most, if not all murderers, surely?), they should be locked up for the protection of society as a whole, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/crime\/article\/0,2763,1671835,00.html\">given the option of early release<\/a> because them being a nutter means &#8220;their responsibility was diminished&#8221;. Yes, that&#8217;s right &#8211; I&#8217;m advocating the incarceration of sociopaths, psychopaths, and basically anyone who&#8217;s a bit mental and violent.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while we&#8217;re on the subject of legal reforms, I&#8217;d also advocate the elimination of all age restrictions currently in place when it comes to sentencing &#8211; utterly illiberal not to have everyone equal under the law, after all. If you&#8217;re old enough to commit a crime, you&#8217;re old enough to be convicted for it. It might also act as a bit of a deterrant to those little brats who reckon they can get away with anything just because they&#8217;ve yet to reach legal maturity.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;ll try and stop sounding so much like a Daily Mail editorial for a bit.<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me a fascist by all means, but I&#8217;d say if a killer has &#8220;incomplete moral development of mental functioning&#8221; (a description that could be applied to most, if not all murderers, surely?), they should be locked up for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/113516704714318690\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}