Negli Stati Uniti ci sono due tipo di ergastolo. Quello che prevede la possibilità di rilascio anticipato sulla parola e quello che non la prevede in nessun caso: life without parole (LWOP).
Per chi non lo sapesse
Negli Stati Uniti ci sono due tipo di ergastolo. Quello che prevede la possibilità di rilascio anticipato sulla parola e quello che non la prevede in nessun caso: life without parole (LWOP).
Gli ergastolani sono più di 160.000[1] (10.000 minorenni), 50.000 non hanno la possibilità di rilascio sulla parola (LWOP) e di questi 2.500[2] erano minori al momento del crimine (alcuni tredicenni). Se a questi aggiungiamo quelli che hanno più ergastoli consecutivi, o che devo scontare gli “hard 50” e quelli con sentenze lunghissime, i “de facto lwop” sono altri 50.000[3].
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/life-without-parole
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/us1005/
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/111813-lwop-complete-report.pdf
Dott. Claudio Giusti
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Member of the Scientific Committee of Osservatorio sulla Legalità e i Diritti, Claudio Giusti had the privilege and the honour to participate in the first congress of the Italian Section of Amnesty International: later he was one of the founders of the World Coalition Against The Death Penalty. He writes on a regular basis about human rights, death penalty and American criminal law.
[1] With 40,362 lifers, California had one-quarter of the country’s life-sentenced population. Other lifer-leading states were Florida (12,549), New York (10,245), Texas (9,031), Georgia (7,938), Ohio (6,075), Michigan (5,137), Pennsylvania (5,104) and Louisiana (4,657). http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/09/18/hard-time-prisons-are-packed-with-more-lifers-than-ever/
[2] La Pennsylvania da sola ne ha 500 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/opinion/linda-greenhouse-undecided.html?_r=1
[3] Anche gli inglesi non scherzano: “UK has more lifers than rest of Europe combined. Figures released this week show that 12,090 men, women and children in England and Wales are serving life sentences, including indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for public protection (IPP). The other 46 countries, including Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, recorded a combined total of 11,467. The figures were released a month after the Prison Reform Trust reported that around 70% of the prison population had two or more mental health disorders – giving a figure of around 8,500 mentally ill prisoners serving life sentences.” http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/49922.article
