US Edition’Obscene brutality’: B.C. baseball-bat killer gets life term despite constitutional ruling
BOWSER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, JUL 14 – Luciano Mariani received life imprisonment with no parole for 25 years for the premeditated, exceptionally violent killing of his ex-girlfriend, described by the judge as obscene brutality.
- In Bowser, British Columbia, the B.C. Supreme Court sentenced Luciano Mariani to life in prison without parole eligibility for 25 years, describing the crime as `obscene brutality`.
- Following his guilty plea, Mariani challenged the Criminal Code’s parole eligibility rule, prompted by the court ruling that the rule was unconstitutional.
- The ruling characterized the murder as `obscene brutality`, demonstrates its exceptionally violent and cold-blooded nature, and highlights that high-risk offenders rarely succeed in obtaining parole, Justice Robin Baird said.
- Justice Robin Baird confirmed Mariani may apply to reduce his parole eligibility period, but said, `there's no guarantee that it will be granted.`
- For future offenders, the ruling signals Justice Robin Baird said, underscoring future challenges for offenders, that there was `nothing disproportionate about the mandatory penalty`, highlighting that murderers serving life sentences often never secure parole.
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