After like 80 years you probably think you’re safe.

  • There’s no statute of limitations on murder. In the US. I assume since much of our law descends from British law, it’s much the same there.

    He’s safe from execution, at least; the UK abolished it.

        • Sentient LoomOP
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          Our “justice” system is too light on 19th-century serial killers.

          • partial_accumen
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            Our “justice” system is too light on 19th-century serial killers.

            There’s statistics to back this up. Go ahead and look at the prison system. Not a single 19th century killer held in custody today.

            Looking back at historical incarceration rates there is a clear trend of locking up fewer and fewer 19th century criminals, until the numbers drop off altogether. This suggests a highly orchestrated plan to gradually reduce the population so at to avoid notice, and it worked. Here we are today without a single 19th century criminal incarcerated today. The data doesn’t lie. /s