Cool yeah, let’s have short sentences for destroying cultural landmarks. I’m sure that’ll be fine.
Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years
bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
4 years!
Of course it’s fucked up and whatever, but this feels like a populist sentence. 4 years is an incredible long time. In what way is this adequate for the crime. Like mentioned before, there is incredible damage being done to nature in the name of business, very rarely somebody is getting a little bit of blowback, and these two guys, who really don’t have much potential to destroy anything more are sent away as an example? To whom? The generally misbehaving public?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
wewbull@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
They shouldn’t be inside at all. We don’t have the prison space to spend on things like this. It should be dealt with in the community.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I.e. translating to no real punishment. For permanently destroying a historically significant site.
zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 16 hours ago
Get then in the stocks to be pelted by tomatoes by the community
wewbull@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Not quite what I was thinking, but better than 4 years a piece.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What is the maximum sentence for damage of public property?