(mandatory 10 years for murder 1 is still a lot of years of your life to lose as far as I'm concerned)
Ten years for murder in Canada? LOL
Nicky Mouth is facing 17-25 years with no parole for taking bets and selling viagra. Imagine the number of murders in NYC if that was the mandatory sentence over here for murder one. RICO forced everyone in the US to go underground.
10 years mandatory minimum for, yet, Canada manages to have less murders by several orders of magnitude per capita. jail time, regardless of its length and severity, has never been a deterrent to crime or recidivism anywhere. So, nah, I don't think it'd be any better or worse than it currently is in the US.
Mafia murders take place regardless of the potential consequences and you could easily argue that the dwindling number of murders has more to do with the fact that there are just fewer italian-americans getting into organized crime than there were 30-40 years ago.
