Happy happy makes it seem like these press articles I posted were random and an attempt to twist the reality of a situation as we don't know what actually took place in each case. Well how many different ways is their to commit murder or rape? Are the judges expected to be lenient when it was 'accidental' rape? Please enlighten me on how exactly it is the facts of the case that can justify such joke sentences for murder/rape?

Look here is another article from today, another guy gets only 5 years in jail for kidnapping a woman and then raping her! I don't even have to bother looking for sources as the local media is reporting it for all to access. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=370174...

As for the French example, no, there is no way he would be sentenced for as long as what people get for rape/murder over there, so he would be punished, but he won't "rot in jail".