Why it is easy for paid killers to murder in our country?
Professional killers take a calculated risk to ply their trade in our country for these simple reasons: (a) the chances of being caught are very low; (b) if they get caught they get a ‘life sentence’ but will serve less than 20 years in prison due to the pardons they get whenever a new President is elected or something else.
We have had two horrible murders – that of George Tereni who killed an innocent man, Toninu Aquilina, for money in 1955 and the other of the Valletta woman – Ġiġa (Luiga) Camilleri (picture) who butchered her son, Twannie, eight, to death in 1960. Both served less than 20 years.
The government should change the punishment from life to life imprisonment without parole, actually meaning spending the rest of one’s life behind bars.
No wonder most of the world seems to blame the government for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.