@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:Mengele was an angel compared with you
I object strenuously.
I am not responsible for what Guede did.
I am not responsible for Guede's extremely short prison sentence.
I am not responsible for what Guede is going to do when he is back out on the streets mingling with all those nice young women.
And I have never supported sending innocent people to prison.
Walter Hinteler wrote:oralloy wrote:Guede is only 2½ years away from beginning a short period of parole.
... but you definitely have no idea about the
diritto penitenziario.
That is incorrect. Unless they have changed the rules in the past few months, I am reasonably familiar with their rules.
And their rules provide that when someone has completed half of their sentence, they are eligible for a form of release where they are freed during the day, but return to prison every night.
For LIFE sentences, they are eligible for this after 20 years.
Being a form of supervised partial freedom that occurs at the end of a prison sentence, that is culturally similar to what an American would call parole.
Further, when 3/4 of their sentence is completed, presuming good behavior, they are freed, with their sentence ended.
This does not apply to LIFE sentences however.
So, had Guede been given the LIFE sentence warranted by the crime he committed, he would have had 20 years of prison, followed by the rest of his life in parole-like circumstances (he would have been freed every day, but had to return to prison at night).
With Guede's current sentence of 16 years, he completes half his sentence and is eligible for daytime release after he serves 8 years.
And he completes 3/4 of his sentence and is eligible for full release after serving 12 years, assuming good behavior. (He has been behaving well.)
He has served 5½ years at this time.
2½ years from now, he will have served 8 years.
I suppose it is a matter of opinion whether "4 years of parole" is a short period, but I was comparing it to "him spending the rest of his life on parole".