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Correspondent Laurie Goering made several interesting points in her article, showing that there was more to Brazil's murder culture than just its comparatively (to the U.S. and elsewhere) lenient laws. Due to the fact that Brazil's court systems were slow, inconsistent, saw only 8 percent of
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laws, the penalty for intentional murder ranges from six to twenty years of imprisonment except in more severe instances which it could increase to thirty, and only one to three years for unintentional homicides. As if to favor those who commit serious felonies, Brazilian law states that the maximum
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Of those fifty-two, five without evidence. The first ten to be sentences, had evidence of innocence, recording tapes with the confessions of the real perpetrators. Among the innocent there's Sérgio "Borjão" Cerqueira Borges, that also recorded tapes with the strategies of the crime and its authors.
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The theme that has continued to dominate
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Out of the 51 accused, only one was still in prison: the ex military policeman Sirlei Alves
Teixeira that was found dead by neighbors on March 9, 2021, fallen on the steps that gave access to his house. The neighbors thought that the ex policeman had had a heart attack. With the arrival of SAMU
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all cases, and brought "showy sentences" with small jail time, Goering explained that "most people favor street justice by police, including executions of criminals caught in the act."
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The killings were attributed to the local drug dealers and the massacre occurred as a way of police retaliation, even though none of the victims had any involvement with
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