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Horrid case in Austria creates buzz over sentencing in Europe

By Douglas A. Berman

The AP has this new piece, headlined "Austria case revives European debate on light prison terms," which highlights how one gruesome case has raised new questions about European sentencing attitudes and outcomes.  Here are excerpts:Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose life he shattered.  Yet, for an atrocity that has stunned the world, he may wind up serving just 15 years in prison if charged, tried and convicted. Practically speaking, that may translate into a life sentence for Fritzl, 73. But his case has revived a debate over Europe's lenient penal system ? and whether harsher, U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).