About the Libyan convict being released on "compassionate grounds"

I do not say this because it's Scotland (all that stuff about how Scots are stingy and such) -- because I think it every time any lifer ANYWHERE  (USA, England, etc) is released on "Compassionate grounds."

I see some warden saying "Fuck this -- my budget's being cut again -- we barely have enough for wiring and plumbing and food -- no way I'm pissing away our funds on hospissing some murderer. Let him go out and die in the street like the people he killed. But....ah, yeah, we'll say it's for "Compassionate reasons"