A New Radical Justice System

My belief that torture is worse than murder is not based on my own opinion alone. Neither is my view that arson is worse than theft.Torture is more damaging and makes the victims wish for death. TTorture is one of the most profound human rights abuses, taking a terrible toll on millions of individuals and their families. Rape, blows to the soles of the feet, suffocation in water, burns, electric shocks, sleep deprivation, shaking and beating are commonly used by torturers to break down an individual's personality. As terrible as the physical wounds are, the psychological and emotional scars are usually the most devastating and the most difficult to repair. Many torture survivors suffer recurring nightmares and flashbacks. They withdraw from family, school and work and feel a loss of trust.[1] There are 105 States parties to the Convention against Torture: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, U.K., U.S.A, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.[1][This is a report form the BBC regarding what a woman went through, all are her own words, not mine][2] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I was fast asleep at 1pm when I heard them knocking at my door. I thought they were thieves. The soldiers pushed the door open. They had guns, ropes, baton sticks. 'We want to kill her' They said: "You are a prostitute of [MDC leader Morgan] Tsvangirai, so we are going to take this condom and put it on this gun and get it into you, because Tsvangirai is doing this to you and you enjoy having sex with him". They put the gun inside me and they asked me if I was enjoying it. I said: "It is painful." They forced me to make noises as though I was having sex with a man. I did. When my brother heard that I was being assaulted, he came out from his house to my room and said: "What is happening?" He was told to shut up and was beaten and made to get into the toilet. They opened the taps and water was running all over his body and asked: "Why are you living with this MDC person here? We want to kill her." They started beating me up. They took the urine from my kid and said: "Drink it." I first refused but the way they were beating me and they wanted to put the gun again, so I had to drink it. After drinking it, they said they wanted to see the urine flowing. I said: "I don't have any urine." They said: "We know you have it. You have to do it now before we kill you." So I had to do the urine standing. They said: "We want to see it flowing by your feet." So I did. I am afraid of meeting them again. I don't know what they will do. They have already killed me. I have to carry on. I just want revenge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I want you to notice three lines in what she recounts:Line 1: "We want to kill her"Line 2: "They have already killed me"Line 3: "I have to carry on. I just want revenge."Line one shows that the want to torture overcame the want to kill, why? Because it is so much more satisfying for a criminal to do. Because they want to cause pain, there is no pain in death, Perhaps in dying but not in death.Line two shows that torture does effectively kill a person emotionally.Line three shows that she does want revenge. In fact revenge is her very reason to 'carry on'.As for arson, I would like to highlight the current punishments for arson on theft in the UK, a country with a political system almost opposite to mine (thus not having the influence of my views): Arson[3]: Statutory Limitations & Maximum Penalty: Life. (or 30+ years in the length of the sentence, because 'life' is not exactly a time framed sentence)Theft has many forms:Burglary[4]: Aggravated burglary = 1-13 years' custody Domestic Burglary = Community order – 6 years’ custodyNon-domestic burglary = Fine – 5 years’ custodyRobbery[5]: If the offence includes the threat or use of minimal force and removal of property then 12 months-3 years custody If a weapon is produced and used to threaten, and/or force is used which results in injury to the victim then 4-7 years custody If the victim is caused serious physical injury by the use of significant force and/or use of a weapon then 8-12 years custody It is clear that Arson is considered worse than the forms of theft. OF course petty theft is EVEN LESS significant legally than armed robberies so needn't prove this.As for Saudi Arabia[6]: According to an official scale that Wikipedia uses the rate is only 1.0 in Saudi Arabia. This is the one just above a rate of 0.For the rapist where the rapist denies and the witness is only the victim we use jail instead of my system for I shall quote the relevant condition whereby Jail is used instead: "If the accused has not been directly been seen as the only person who could have done the crime and is merely claimed to be the most likely form evidence that vaguely makes it seem as if no one else but them would have done it (for example, you don't know who raped the woman but the woman vaguely remembers a face and voice and it matches a man, with not other witnesses)." Now, this means that in such a case it is not clear whether or not the rapist is, for sure, the rapist or if the rape occurred thus we will revert to jail. In the case where you mention the mob of 10 blaming an innocent. I shall state the conditions relevant as to why we'd simply refer to prison for the innocent (unfortunate yes) but we'll be using prison instead of my system: "When concrete evidence to person is given, undeniable amount of videographic, photographic, audiographic evidence" this condition has been unmet, "When there is no ambiguity over the crime" since the person hasn't done the crime, there clearly would be extreme ambiguity involved. Also there is a condition for jail that is relevant here; (The one I mentioned before) In such a situation they clearly would not be the only one responsible for the crime. Thus Jail/prison would be used, not my system.As for the serial killer, my system would merely revert to imitate their method of killing and only kill them once. In a situation where they killed the family of the person, we'd merely kill them in the most brutal of all the ways a person was killed (brutal in terms of the time from the beginning of the ordeal to the point of death and in terms of how the methods would cause pain. If each method was very different, we'll combine them in a terrifying hybrid ordeal whereby all methods of killing get combined into one monstrous killing mechanism.Sources:[1] http://www.un.org...[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk...[3] http://www.cps.gov.uk...[4] http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk...[5] http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk...[6] http://en.wikipedia.org...