No question about it: If you murder someone, you better be prepared to live with it for the rest of your life, maybe even afterwards. As well you should be.
You should likewise be prepared to face criminal prosecution for the murder for the rest of your life — that is to say, until whenever the authorities catch up with you. This is due to what amounts to a policy decision that Society made long ago, and it is a decision that applies nationwide. Put simply, no one may ever escape prosecution for committing murder merely because too much time has elapsed since the killing. The rationale here is that murder so undermines the "social contract" that it shouldn’t be dealt with in any other way.
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