Frau Merkel is just following EU laws??

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You leftie, do-gooder types are pathetic .. if you want a stark vision of do-gooder stupidity, look at what Frau Merkel is doing to the EU ..[/quote]

Quite agree that she is the sole person responsible for the laxist regime in Cambodia.

Man, 23, Confesses to Murder, Attempted Rape in Battambang

BY BUTH KIMSAY | NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The body of a woman who went missing in Battambang province on Tuesday night was discovered floating in a river Thursday, while a man whose belongings were found at the place where she disappeared from has confessed to attacking her with the intention of rape, police said.

Chann Serey Roth, 18, was cleaning bean sprouts in the river behind her family’s house in Sangke district when her mother heard screams for help and came running, according to police.


But when she arrived, her daughter had vanished, and police and locals spent the night and next day looking for her and her attacker, Chan Kosal, who was identified based on flip-flops and pink shorts found at the scene.

At 6:30 Thursday morning, Mr. Kosal, 23, was arrested when he returned to his home to sleep after spending more than 24 hours in hiding, police said, while Chann Serey Roth’s body was found at about 10 a.m. about 1 km from her home.

“[Mr. Kosal] told police that he was fishing along the river and saw the victim cleaning bean sprouts and thought it was a good chance to rape her,” said district police chief Sun Sovan.

When Mr. Kosal attacked Chann Serey Roth, she stabbed him in the stomach with a pair of scissors and a struggle ensued, Mr. Sovan said.

“The suspect told police the victim may have died in the river because she was beaten unconscious and he then took her to the middle of the river. He confessed that he elbowed her in the face and slapped the back of her neck,” he added.

“We found the body in the river in front of Sangke pagoda about 1 km from the victim’s house,” he said, adding that Mr. Kosal would be sent to the Battambang Provincial Court today.

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The death penalty acts as no deterrent, just makes you more likely to kill further as what have you got to lose, and as shown by Texas, for example, there being questions around your conviction, or you being educationally backwards, or you being under 18 at the time you committed the crime is no reason not to commit judicial murder. It's as bad as the murder itself. Yet does nothing to reduce the number crimes that involve murder. Also, it's a lot cheaper to keep lifers than to have the death penalty, if you have the same drawn-out system as the US. Lifers also have plenty of time to contemplate their actions, rather than getting a quick release from their sins, and maybe therein lies the punishment. They're stuck in Prey Sar for 20 years, shitting in a bucket.
If you take a look at Norway, for example, you can't get more than 20 years and their prisons are like holiday camps. Extremely low rates of murder and recidivism by being civilised.

My final thoughts on this topic .. scientific research has proven beyond doubt that capital punishment acts as a deterrent and saves lives .. no ifs, no buts ..

I agree that the death penalty isn't needed in civilized countries .. but Cambodia is far from civilized ..

So you have a citation for this scientific research?
Didn't think so.

Your arguments are poorly constructed with no foundation. You struggle to get your point across without raising further questions, and finally your double periods at the end of your sentences make you appear to be a 12yo girl in which case I could then understand the immature nature of your posting.

Missing Battambang teenager slain, killer arrested



The search for a young woman reported missing this week in Battambang province ended tragically yesterday, with the discovery of her body in the Stung Sangke River, though police also announced the arrest of her alleged killer.

According to police, suspect Chan Kosal confessed that he had stalked the victim, 18-year-old Chham Sreyroth, with the express purpose of raping her, then killed her when she resisted.

On the night of the murder, he said, he hid in a patch of bamboo by the river and waited, knowing that she liked to wander alone after helping her mother with the daily chores.

“At first, I just wanted to rape her, and I had no intention to kill her, but she resisted and screamed for help from her mother,” Kosal, a 21-year-old fisherman from Sangke district’s Wat Tamim village, allegedly told the police.

Sreyroth reportedly stabbed Kosal in the stomach with a pair of scissors from her pocket in self-defence. Enraged, he then beat her unconscious before dragging her to the riverbank.

Preparing to rape her, he said he heard the victim’s mother and brother come out of their house to look for her, he said he dragged her into the water before swimming away to hide in a patch of sapodilla trees.

Police apprehended Kosal when he returned to his house yesterday.

“The suspect was charged with intentional murder and was sent to Battambang Provincial Court for further procedures,” said Som Sovann, acting police chief of Sangke district.

Local villagers contacted yesterday said that the victim and the suspect had once been romantically involved, but that the relationship was ended when the victim’s family disapproved of the match. Later on, the suspect married another girl in the same village.

But the victim’s brother, Chham Thy, yesterday denied this story, saying his sister had never been involved with her alleged killer.

“Our family will file a complaint to demand $5,000 and ask the court to severely punish the suspect so that justice will be done for my sister,” he said.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/m ... ign=buffer

Digg3r wrote:So you have a citation for this scientific research?
Didn't think so.

Your arguments are poorly constructed with no foundation. You struggle to get your point across without raising further questions, and finally your double periods at the end of your sentences make you appear to be a 12yo girl in which case I could then understand the immature nature of your posting.

Thank you for analysing my posts .. now shut up and go away ..

Poster X wrote:My final thoughts on this topic .. scientific research has proven beyond doubt that capital punishment acts as a deterrent and saves lives .. no ifs, no buts ..

Research does not support the above statement. In fact current research claims much of the previous research is actually inconclusive.

Current research on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates, says a new report from a National Research Council committee headed by Carnegie Mellon professor Daniel S. Nagin.

The report evaluated studies conducted since a four-year moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976, and it found that the studies do not provide evidence for or against the proposition that the death penalty affects homicide rates. These studies should not be used to inform judgments about the effect of the death penalty on homicide, and should not serve as a basis for policy decisions about capital punishment, the committee said.

"Fundamental flaws in the research we reviewed make it of no use in answering the question of whether the death penalty affects homicide rates," said Nagin, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at CMU. "We recognize that this conclusion may be controversial to some, but no one is well-served by unsupportable claims about the effect of the death penalty, regardless of whether the claim is that the death penalty deters homicides, has no effect on homicide rates or actually increases homicides."

The key question, the report says, is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates.

The committee also found that studies made implausible or unsupported assumptions about potential murderers' perceptions of and response to capital punishment. In addition, estimates of the deterrent effect of the death penalty were based on unfounded assumptions, for example, that the effect of capital punishment is the same across all the states and over time. There is no evidence to support such suppositions.

These intrinsic shortcomings severely limit what can be learned from the existing research, the report says. The committee recommended next steps for research that include collecting data that consider both capital and noncapital punishments for murder, conducting studies on how potential murderers perceive a range of punishments in homicide cases, and using statistical methods based on more credible assumptions about the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/news/news-deta ... x?nid=1518