'End Life Term'

Daily MirrorMay 24, 2005

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AUTOMATIC life imprisonment for murder should end, the Director of Public Prosecutions said last night.

Ken Macdonald, QC, said: "I am strongly in favour of a system that recognises degrees of homicide. Not just murder or manslaughter, but three or four degrees." Judges would have the discretion to distinguish between a serial killer and a doctor who agrees to help a terminally ill patient die.

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