‘Think through mandatory punishment idea’


PETALING JAYA: The three-strikes rule should only be used for serious criminals and not petty offenders, say lawyers and criminologists, who stressed that the courts should still be given discretion on punishments without being tied to mandatory sentences.

Also, such a rule, which is being proposed by the police, could worsen prison overcrowding when lengthy sentences are handed down without possibility of parole.

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Dr P. Sundramoorthy , Salim Bashir

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