Valgora wrote:Kartofian wrote:I thinks it's pretty easy to think of a case in which the law was excessively harsh and unfair. But what about cases in which the person(s) on trial did not receive a punishment that even reached the level at which it could be deemed as being proportional to the crime? Have you heard of such cases? Can the Law be too "light"?
In my opinion the single most ridiculous case has to be the one of Pedro Lopez. A known serial killer who was arrested and convicted for murdering/raping 110 girls, although he confessed to 300. Despite being caught in 1980 he was classified as mentally insane and put into a psychiatric hospital; from which he was released in 1998 for "good behavior". Currently nobody knows where he is. I think he should have been sentenced to death or at least a life in prison; letting a person deemed mentally insane, and a known murderer, walk out of their respective institution is simply bs.
If someone is a murder or a rapist, they should be thrown into a gulag, executed by firing squad, or both.
Regardless of mental health.
Cute, until you find out that you unintentionally killed someone who was either falsely accused or wrongfully convicted - and the real perpetrator of the crime is still out there.