Oscar Pistorius should not be going to jail | Simon Jenkins

Pistoriuss life is ruined. No one will be deterred by his sentence. Imprisonment is a brutal response that achieves nothing in such cases
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Oscar Pistorius was guilty. However gripped by anger, its difficult to accept he didnt know whom he was likely to kill. He had a violent history and his claim that he thought he was shooting a burglar stretches credulity. He killed his girlfriend.

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