In this thread, http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030113/od_nm/crime_russia_dc, a guy gets only 12 years for killing, cutting up, MINCING, and SEASONING his friend? Does that strike anyone as being a bit on the light side? I’m not a proponent of the death penalty, but I’m thinkin’ that 12 years just isn’t enough punishment here.
Not “thread” … “article”. Sheesh.
Depends on the seasoning you used.
Basted in white wine, garlic, lemon juice, and white pepper… I can see 12 years.
Using Kraft BBQ… well then I agree with you, more jail time is needed.
Well, 12 years is a bit light.
Now on the other hand, if he had actually fed his friend to someone, now I’d think that would warrant at least… 13 or 14 years. 
I can’t get to the article
I’m not good with links, so here’s the article (found it on Yahoo):
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian man who murdered his friend in a drunken argument and then minced and flavored his body for a meal, was jailed for 12 years, Interfax news agency reported.
Yevgeny Usanov stabbed his victim through the heart in the central Russian town of Saratov, the agency said Friday. He cut up the body, wrapped it in bay leaves and fed it through a mincer.
“These culinary preparations were done with only one aim – to eat the victim,” prosecutor Natalya Rubanova told the court. It was not clear whether the man ate his friend before he was arrested.
Well, if he ate his friend after he was arrested I would have to say that police security is a tad lax.
Mmmmm. Tastes just like chechen.
smacks RadioWave in the back of the head
Don’t do that to me in public again! 
Not to mention the utter creepiness of laughing about this incident in any way…
Insert your own “Chicken Kiev” joke here
Quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read on these boards. I think I hurt myself laughing.
I don’t get it. Chechen? For the mincing part, it should have been at least 15 years.
STEAK TARTAR!
Oh, my freaking SIDES. I think I love you.
Let that be a lesson to all: It’s quality, not quantity. Awesome.
I figger, if you’re going to go so far as to murder somebody, desecrating the corpse afterwards is little more than spicing things up a little. So to speak.