Daniel_

Add me to the "NO!" camp, please.

He was sentenced under the rules that the democratic comunity have agreed upon. Regardless of our feelings, none of us have the right to personally decide that anybody's sentence was not enough and to add to it.

Imagine that you were stopped for speeding and paid your ticket/points on licence etc.

Say your neighbour hears about it and has a real problem with speeding drivers because one killed his kid.

He might decide that you should have had your car removed from you, or your ability to use a car removed. Would you defend his right to torch your car in the driveway?

Clearly, most people would say that this is nuts.

The problem with vigilanteism is that it says that the vigilante can overrule the democratic process and the courts.

It might well be that the killer in the OP "deserved" a worse sentence than he got in the eyes of many of us, but the way to achieve that MUST in a democratic society be to change the rules through the political process.

Our societies have gone to war repeatedly over the past 100 years to defend democracy all over the world (as the UK and US keep doing) precicely to prevent any thug with a problem to deal out violence whenever he fancies.

What goes for apartheid, naziism, ba'athism, expansionist communism, and all the other enemies of the past century must in my opinion go for a gang of nutters in a town or prison.

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