Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Right of appeal

Listening to the news as I drove this afternoon, I was surprised by two news items. The first was that one of the Bali Nine (Australians who were found guilty of smuggling drugs into Bali) had appealed his life imprisonment sentence and received the death penalty instead (wonder what he'd risk getting if he appealed again?)
The other item was that there is a suggestion that in the US, to counter recent mass-shootings in schools, students should be allowed to carry fire-arms with them - but only if they are licenced and trained and, one would hope, also able to prevent intending gun-people from taking their weapons from them.

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