The Cabildo Abierto legislator will raise the issue within the party, to determine which crimes the penalty would be applicable to.
He deputy of Cabildo Abierto (CA), Álvaro Perroneproposed to discuss the implementation of life imprisonment as a punishment in Uruguayand will raise the issue within his party, seeking to determine in which crimes it would be worthy of being applied.
The lobbying legislator’s initiative arose after the murder of an eight-year-old boy in North Malvin, allegedly due to a settling of scores between criminal gangs. “I understand that there are some crimes in Uruguay who deserve life imprisonment,” he said last Saturday at a press conference in reference to “the latest sad events of murders of children.”
“I believe that with these crimes there is no place for that person to return to society, that’s what I think,” he emphasized. Perrone He is working with an advisor within his party to compare legislation with other countries in the region.
Regarding this, he explained that life imprisonment exists in more than 180 countries and that in 65 of them it is not reviewable. “Just here in Argentina We have a life sentence that is reviewable for certain crimes,” he stated.
“It’s something we have to discuss,” insisted the lobbyist deputy. “There are other murders like the case of The Forestwhich are several murders in a robbery,” he expanded on the possible crimes that would merit life imprisonment.
“These types of people have no rehabilitation living in society”
“Those types of people, I understand that they do not have rehabilitation and cannot live in society, that is why these are measures that, for me particularly, should be a life sentence,” he commented. Perrone.
The last friday, Perrone He said on radio Sarandí that the life sentence could be “a strong signal” from the State in regards to the fight against “crime and drug trafficking.” “A stage is coming in which all the parties are going to be making proposals, the security issue is the main problem we have in Uruguay“he stressed.
Source: Ambito
