Getting Away with Murder ; Hundreds of Killers Could Face Lesser Charges Under Legal Shake-Up
Daily Mail › December 20, 2005
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AUTOMATIC life sentences for murder would be scrapped under radical legal reforms to be made public today.
Instead, only the most 'serious' murderers would get life, with others convicted of a range of new and lesser offences.See the full content of this document
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Getting Away with Murder ; Hundreds of Killers Could Face Lesser Charges Under Legal Shake-Up
Among these are expected to be women who say they have suffered long-term domestic violence from the man they killed, and robbers who leave their victims dead but claim they didn't mean it.
The plans from the Government's ref...See the full content of this document
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