Until a few years ago I had never heard of a single case of a murderer declining to go into the dock to hear their sentence. I doubt whether any of them even realised that they had the choice.  Yet in recent years, the word seems to have spread and something of a fashion has

I’m listening to LBC callers say that forcing the convict to attend their sentencing hearing ‘smacks of medievalism’. All kinds of hell-fire would be unleashed if this law was overturned.

Yet in the US and other countries, convicts are forced to attend their sentencing hearings and the sky didn’t fall. What is so fucking special about the UK?

  • Deluxeparrot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My issue with people like her not attending is that it still gives them control. A good theory on why people like her commit the crimes they do is for the control it gives them.

    She’s found guilty of those crimes and should attend her sentencing but… She doesn’t fancy it so she gets to decide she doesn’t want to. Those parents didn’t get a choice.