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There is one other factor that can further blunt the impact of an exemplary sentence.
After more than 2 years of uncertainty and high drama, this exemplary sentence is justice for elephants.
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This is what those "exemplary sentences" looked like.
But are such "exemplary sentences" ever effective as a deterrent to other potential offenders?
The pattern of prosecutions, convictions and harsh and exemplary sentences points towards a policy of criminalising dissent.
Many years ago, when Glasgow's reputation was fouled by the razor gangs, given world-wide notoriety in the novel No Mean City, Lord Carmont handed out exemplary sentences.
At the Old Bailey Judge Salmon later handed down exemplary sentences of four years each on nine white youths who had gone "nigger hunting".
When Judge Elgan Edwards, the recorder of Chester, handed his four-year exemplary sentences to two men for using Facebook to incite riots that never happened, he said he hoped it would be a deterrent to would-be rioters.
David Cameron, who last week promised severe punishments for rioters, saying he hoped courts would use "exemplary" sentences to deter future riots, praised the sentencing decisions, which have included two jailed for four years each for inciting riots on Facebook – riots that never took place – and one person sent to prison for six months for stealing £3.50 worth of water.
Farm invasions, and the resulting deaths of white farmers, credibly explain the court's haste in imposing an exemplary death sentence on a woman.
As Mr Bush said this week, they need to be more vigorously enforced; a few exemplary jail sentences would be welcome.
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