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The Attorney General wants the Supreme Court to clarify what will apply to the provision of the penalty for murder. Stock Photography.
The Prosecutor’s Office (RÅ) is appealing a verdict of the Court of Appeal in which a man who murdered his wife was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
RÅ wants the sentence to be life imprisonment, referring to the increased penalty for murder that was introduced on January 1 this year.
– We want HD to clarify how to apply this new provision, says My Hedström, head of the Public Ministry office.
Increasing the penalty for murder means that, as a reason for life imprisonment, special attention should be paid to whether the act was carefully planned, characterized by a special intention, aimed at promoting or concealing another crime, was suffering severe to the victim or was particularly ruthless.
Reduced penalty
The aim of the toughening is that more and more people are sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. In the case that RÅ is now appealing to the Supreme Court, the man was sentenced to life in prison in the district court, but his sentence was later reduced to 18 years in prison in the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal referred to a number of extenuating circumstances.
– The opinion of the Attorney General is that there are no extenuating circumstances here. Without clearly aggravating circumstances. The intention of the legislator is then that in those cases it is for life, says My Hedström.
“No impact”
RAW refers, among other things, to the fact that the woman must have experienced great suffering and severe anxiety about death, when she was conscious for about ten minutes after being cut by her husband, from behind without saving.
TT: What would it have meant for the legislator’s intentions if HD confirmed the softer judgment of the Court of Appeals?
– Then they won’t have an impact. Then, it raises circumstances that may speak in a softer direction about things that need to be considered in assessing the value of the penalty, which are not really extenuating circumstances, he says.
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