I suspect this is just one example of actions that will become more common until the powers that be get a grip of the justice system, after all prison should be hell on earth once a person is convicted regardless of the offence committed and sentence passed. Prisons should be modelled on places like Bangkwang in Thailand; in order that once you have been there you make damn sure you don’t do anything to end up there again assuming you manage to survive your first incarceration period. We are talking 6X6 no windows, a bucket, and 6 to a cell. If they make a mess its there problem you just don’t let them out until it’s clean, worked so hard that you don’t have the energy to cause problems.

Let’s assess what this group has done for the public;
1. He won’t do it again.
2. Its one less drug addled criminal.
3. It’s saving the police time and us money because police won’t be arresting him on a regular basis anymore.
4. It’s saving the public the cost of looking after him in prison.
5. This is a guess but I bet he didn’t work for a living. So we are not paying his benefits anymore.
All in all job well done after all you must be fed up of arresting the same people day in day out.

Still, I find the phrase you chose for the title quite ironic in terms of the subject at hand.

I suspect there are examples to be made but also people who live by different rules to the majority where revenge is not the same as justice as far as punishment goes.

Having said that, there are sufficient people out there, victims, who are fed up with the levels of sentencing imposed by people who should do better on convicted criminals who should know better.

I wouldn’t feel sorry for him just because he was on drugs. It is a fallacy that people turn to crime to fund their drug habit.

In the majority of cases, the drug user was a criminal before they started taking Class A drugs. They use the excuse to avoid prison sentences and real punishment. How else can you explain the juvenile crime rate? These kids commit crime, then over the years, having spent the money on all the junk that kids spend their money on, they find something else to spend it on.

The usual outlet is Cocaine or Heroin or both.

On the other hand, there are many people out there who take these drugs and manage to fund their habit through legitimate means. Again, they have run out of imagination as to what to spend their money on and turn to drugs.

There aren’t very many people out there who are FORCED to take drugs. For some it’s a lifestyle choice.

It’s obvious his crime was motivated by drugs, but his killers sound far more dangerous and brutal. More like a case of a gang of dogs attacking a weaker dog.