* Anita Lorraine Cobby was a 26-year-old Australian registered nurse and beauty pageant winner who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered while walking home from Blacktown railway station after dining out with two Sydney Hospital colleagues in Surry Hills, New South Wales, just before 10p.m. on 2 Feb 1986. Two days after being reported missing, Cobby's body was discovered on a rural farm in Prospect. Investigations led to the arrest of five men (John Travers, Michael Murdoch, Michael, Garry & Leslie Murphy) who were later convicted of her abduction, rape and murder on 10 June 1987 and each sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole, on 16 June 1987.[1]
Thinking Outside the Cell Defined Terms Baker's Dozen Problems Articles & Reports - Bibliography
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Never To Be Released Prisoners QOL
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To Keep Despondent Inmates Permanently In A Manic Depressant State
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Australia’s Most Heinous Criminals Condemned To A Life Sentence Marked Never To Be Released
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The Australian Veterinarians Assoc condones humans euthanizing dogs, cats, even horses, when their QOL materially diminishes. Yet Homo sapiens has more recently become incapable of providing the same relief to Lifers deemed never to be released that are dying a thousand deaths; experiencing a manic depressive QOL
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The Australian Govt. should legislate that each inmate convicted of a Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous, Unprovoked Murder/s that is identified as Never To Be Released should be required to complete a statutory declaration every two years that s/he declines assisted dying by lethal injection
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Never to be released: Young men sentenced to life imprisonment since 1990 - SMH
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Australia’s most severe penalty that only a handful of prisoners receive News.com.au March 4, 2016
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The above Daily Telegraph advert asserts that 58 inmates in NSW jails have been 'tagged' Never To Be Released.
What is the rationale for keeping alive Sadistic, Brutal, Premeditated, Unprovoked Murderers at a cost to the taxpayer of $175,000 per inmate p.a. in a tiny steel cage in Maximum Security Incarceration that Documented Reports/Journals/Articles by prison appointed psychologists and psychiatrists deem Never To Be Released because of their unstable mental states and previous Sadistic, Brutal, Murders, thereby deemed a risk to society?
ost Lifers deemed never to be released are dying a thousand deaths; experiencing a manic depressive QOL. The Huffington Post article chronicles the mental state of many Lifers in U.S. jails and the futility of such permanent incarceration, in lieu of traditional execution.
A 'Negative Prisoner Mindset' due to Facing A Long Prison Sentence, Exacerbated By Associating With Other Criminals evidences that the QOL of most prisoners 'inter alia' that face a Life Sentence is manifestly low, many understandably suffer manic depression. How could there be any QOL with the prospect of being caged indefinitely?
Life Sentence (What is a life sentence?) provides a welter of statistics of the heinous crimes that warrant a Life Sentence and the various determents of what tenure a Life Sentence entails which varies from States and Territories.
It may appear callous to some, but psychiatric Documented Reports/Journals/Articles evidence that Australia's most heinous murderers are 'better off dead'. History evidences that the proponents that "society has moved beyond Capital Punishment" have NEVER appraised the QOL of the humans that they are prepared to allocate $150,000 p.a. per inmate Admin Cost and $25,000 pa in Capital Works costs to keep alive in a small steel cage.
Canada has led the way in considering the rights of prisoners to request 'assisted dying' in countries that have sanctioned 'assisted dying'. Below are two pertinent extracts from the Dalhousie University, Canada paper Assisted dying for prison populations: Lessons from and for abroad - Aug 20, 2019:
Currently, 15 jurisdictions allow the practice of assisted dying. Six of these jurisdictions are countries (Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland).
Eight are jurisdictions within the United States (California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington) and one is a state in Australia (Victoria).16 The prison context is not mentioned in any assisted dying law in any jurisdiction with the exception of Canada.17
No law explicitly excludes prisoners from accessing assisted dying or describes a different legal framework for assisted dying that is specific to prisoners.
We found no official guidelines specifically regulating assisted dying in prisons in any permissive jurisdiction, with the exception of Canada.18
Mindful of the lead taken by Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, eight states in the USA and Victoria Aust, and mindful that many Lifers deemed never to be released are dying a thousand deaths; experiencing a manic depressive QOL, the Australian Govt. should legislate that each inmate convicted of a Sadistic, Brutal, Heinous, Unprovoked Murder/s and is incarcerated in a maximum security jail who has been identified as Never To Be Released should be required to complete a statutory declaration every two years that s/he declines an offer to be euthanized (assisted dying) by lethal injection. Just as dogs, cats, horses etc are euthanized when their QOL materially reduces, humans should be afforded the same dignity when their is no prospect of improved QOL. Such inmates should also have the right to request euthanasia by lethal injection at any time in between the formal written approach every two years.
Below is evidence of manic depression and efforts to suicide by seven of Australia's most notorious and vicious murderers:
"Rebecca Butterfield was charged with grievous bodily harm after that incident and was serving a non-parole period of three years when she killed a fellow inmate Bluce Lim-Ward in 2003. Butterfield's violent history began at the age of 21 and she has been diagnosed with several personality disorders - pictured is Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre where she will continue her sentence. Justice Stephen Rothman justified his reasons for extending her jail sentence claiming an unsupervised Butterfield is a risk.
'The combination of disorders and psychoses suffered by the defendant and her history of criminal violence leads inexorably to the view that if unsupervised this defendant would more likely than not commit a serious violence offence,' he wrote.
He also noted that Butterfield's suicidal tendencies are a deliberate attempt to lure officers to her cell and injure them.
'There is evidence that some of the defendant's threats of self-harm or engagement in self-harm are premeditated for the purpose of forcing officers to enter her cell and enabling her to increase her opportunities for violence against the officers.'
Butterfield has been diagnosed with mental health problems including several personality disorders."
"Earlier, Haigh cross-examined psychiatrist Dr Yvonne Skinner and challenged her view that he did not have borderline personality disorder.
Haigh cited a number of serious instances of self-harm in prison, but Dr Skinner told the court she believed his actions were carefully thought through, rather than impulsive.
But she said she was concerned he might behave impulsively and aggressively if he was released, particularly in light of his drug use.
She said that drug use would reduce his chances of proper reasoning and judgement in heated situations."
* John Wayne Glover was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women (aged from 60 to 93), over a period of 14 months from 1989-1990 in Sydney's North Shore. The fact that the victims were all elderly women, led to Glover attaining the nickname by the press as the "Granny Killer". Following his arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He committed suicide by hanging himself in prison on 9 Sept 2005.
* Deaths in custody: ‘I’m homicidal, I’ve told them that for days’ - Crikey - June 01, 2011
"Careless or inappropriate jail or cell placement has contributed to at least 20 deaths in NSW prison custody in the past decade, according to a Crikey analysis of coronial reports. In three of those cases, inmates were killed by a cell mate whom prison authorities had previously identified as dangerous, violent or even homicidal."
What Death Penalty Opponents Don’t Get - Huffington Post - Dec 01, 2014