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In Brazil we just put our white problem guy in jail, probably for the rest of his life. Hope that becomes an example for the rest of the world.
Technically, he's under house arrest waiting for the next iteration of the process.
Exactly. We must not commemorate early, to avoid jinxing it.
Ambev will need triple the beer distribution this weekend
Until far-right wins an election and his sentence gets annulled or someone wants to "unite the nation" by pardoning him or some such bullshit
Most/Many countries don't allow the executive to overrule the judiciary with pardons. Only a courts should be able to decide if and how long someone will be punished based solely on the laws at the time. I don't know whether Brazil is one of them.
I think the issue with that could be that if the act for which they were sentenced becomes legal then it can be a bit dubious to hold someone in prison over it. For example places where homosexuality was criminal and has since been legalized.
That requires the legislature to create a new law pardoning everyone who was sentenced and not selectively pardoning high-profile people, like in the US.
This would be blatantly unconstitutional for crimes like treason. Legalizing treason is possibly the most unconstitutional a law can be.