Kill and release
http://www.thestar.com/article/348862 Two years ago, 48-year-old Margaret Crane of Victoria, B.C. , went into a restaurant in Chiang Mai (northern Thailand) to meet up with her common-law husband, George Dubie. An argument ensued. It is not known what the argument was about, but a clue is that he was alleged to have become "involved with a Thai woman." Ms. Crane pulled out a pistol, fired 3 shots into Mr. Dubie, killing him, and then fled the scene in a car. This week, Ms. Crane was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison. She was also convicted for "possessing and carrying a pistol in public," and was sentenced to a consecutive 1.5 years in prison, for a total of 3.5 years. Here we have an example of harsh, third-world justice. Had Ms. Crane shown the foresight of killing her husband in B.C. in a fit of jealousy, she would have got only a 2 year conditional sentence to be served in the community. (Can somebody help me out with the name of the woman from the interior of B.C. who killed the married school administrator she was having affair with after discovering she wasn’t his only mistress? This would have been from about 3-4 years ago.) We also see the relative importance placed in a man’s life, compared with carying a gun in public. It is almost as serious an offence to carry a gun as to kill a man with it.