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Originally posted by Shaun
Right, I'm currently reading a crime novel about a man framed for the "perfect crime" and there was a bit about his lawyer advising him to plead guilty in order to make the sentence less harsh.
This got me thinking; since when did admitting you're guilty mean that the punishment should be any more lenient?
I mean, is there any real difference between a man brutally murdering someone and admitting it, and a man brutally murdering someone and not? Although both sentences in this case would be considerably long, there shouldn't, IMO, be any difference at all. Thoughts?
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Pleading Guilty has always resulted in a lesser sentence in most cases. However, in the case of murder, the sentence would not be reduced. The automatic sentence for anyone guilty of murder is life imprisonment.
Of course, most people sentenced to life don't serve anything even approaching life, but that's a subject for another thread altogether...