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Drug policy – the case for realism
Governments acting on behalf of society have deemed the production, distribution and consumption of (some!) drugs to be unacceptable and the subject...
Worse than jail: sentenced to life on YouTube
In the digital age, there's a new controversial punishment for crime – sentenced to a lifetime of embarrassment on YouTube. Our story yesterday...
Putting the truth into sentencing
Some love it, some hate it. Either way, sentencing is hard enough without unnecessary interference by politicians and the media, judges tell Geesche...
How a murderous fantasy cost two boys their future
When 18-year-old "Dexter" killer Andrew Conley was given a life sentence without parole for strangling his young brother he faced a future...
Even grotesque fantasies should not be criminalised
In May 2009, Iowa resident Christopher Handley, a collector of comic books, pled guilty to federal charges of importing and possessing obscene...
Australia bans death penalty and appeals to Indonesia to spare Bali nine
A Liberal senator has used the permanent abolition of the death penalty in Australia to call for Indonesia to spare the lives of members of the Bali...
Parole for Lim, all bar the shouting
When Justice Jack Slattery sentenced Phillip Choon Tee Lim for the murder of the pioneering heart surgeon Victor Chang he said: ''The objective...
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