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@jon357
for whom normal punishment is never enough
Indeed. It is an understandable, if archaic reflex. Going by that reflex, we should still be slowly torturing criminals to death on the townnsquare, anything else feels insufficient as punishment for some. There is however ample evidence for a correlation between the humanization of our justice system and the decline in crimes so I suppose that has to suffice.
@Paulina
happy about this sentence?
I was indeed happy about the sentence when I heard about it. There was apparantly not enough evidence to convict her directly for murder, since the deed itself was mostly done by her husband. If she had been charged as an accomplice, she would have received less jail time. This decision creates a precedence to prosecute others who enslaved Yazidis in Iraq for crimes against humanity and receive tough jail time, even if no actual deaths can be contributed to them.
Who knows if she can be rehabilitated. She had a clean rep before she went to join the IS, and seems to have lost faith in it, as she stopped being religious before she was arrested. I would not be surprised if she lives an unremarkeable life after she is released, like many people who participated in the Holocaust and other genocidal crimes and never offended again.