Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2025

Prison Morality

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The murder of an utterly degenerate sex criminal evokes a visceral atavistic reaction. Good job. Reinforcing the universal belief that sex ...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

A Miracle!

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How is it that all murder victims are apparently incredibly wonderful human beings? I find it a tad odd, a statistical anomaly, that no as...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Let's Get Personal Week cont...

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2. Murder is often a deeply selfish crime. I know that mine was. Through no fault of his own, my victim found himself as the focus of my ...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

"Lets Get Personal" Week

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It is rare for me to talk about my crime and never do I mention my victim. This isn't out of any desire to conceal my guilt, or to sp...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Meandering through the Past

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I'm faffing around with some autobiographical writing, and interested parties insist that I start at the beginning. They mean, of course...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Answers cont...

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Q5: To what degree do you genuinely feel as a middle aged man that you are responsible for the actions of a 14 year old boy in a fit of ange...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Judgement Call

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Let's say you're arrested for murder. Not that any of you would be of course...but it does happen! Quite rightly, you intend to pl...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Degrees of Badness

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One of the main problems surrounding the current legal schema of murder and life sentences is that they are so broad in conception. This con...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Life Means Life 2

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Should Life literally mean lifelong imprisonment for murderers? The campaigners whose brains retreat into parroting "life should mean l...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Risk to life or limb

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This is the crux of a lifer's detention once the tariff has expired. On the face of it, it is not unreasonable to keep in prison a perso...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Depression

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It is 11am; I have been up and out of bed since before 9. Hardly slept last night. All I can do is sit here, flicking through all of my post...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

My DNA

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It was, I recall, over a decade ago that policemen turned up at the prison to take everyone's DNA. It was made clear that this would be ...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Demeaning the Meaning of "Life"

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As the most serious sentence available to the State, the Life sentence should carry some weight. It should, at least, be a signal that th...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

My Crime

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One of the criticisms I have of many prison writers is that they avoid any mention of their crime. One day they are bumbling along through...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Bad Memories

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It sounds weird but I have always believed that a fair number of murderers suffer from aspects of post-traumatic stress. I say weird, becaus...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Not a Fluffy Blogger

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I do appreciate that I cause some consternation and a little discomfort. Even those who support prison bloggers and prisoners’ rights in ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Murder as an Almighty Fuck-up

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Many people believe that the legal definition of murder includes a deliberate intent to kill. This is wrong. All that is required is an inte...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

How to Serve 30 Years

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A few people have wondered how it is I have served thirty years; and why I am 20 years past my tariff. Let's put aside the obvious c...
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