Queensland’s mandatory life imprisonment for murder lacks public support, law reform body finds
State’s sentencing scheme ‘the most inflexible in Australia’, with commission recommending three options for community debate
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Queensland’s mandatory penalty of life imprisonment for murder lacks community support, according to the state’s law reform commission, despite the government recently expanding the provision to cover children as young as 10.
In a consultation paper released on Thursday, the Queensland Law Reform Commission described the state’s sentencing scheme for murder as “the most inflexible in Australia” and raised three options for amendment for public debate.
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Making no change
Keeping mandatory life for particular killings such as of very vulnerable victims like children
Setting a presumptive life sentence which the defence would have to argue down
Or a maximum life sentence.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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