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https://medium.com/exploring-history/7-worlds-longest-serving-prisoners-tales-of-incarceration-without-end-efc930b198d7 https://medium.com/exploring-history/7-w
by backtoyoujim 2y ago
https://medium.com/exploring-history/7-worlds-longest-serving-prisoners-tales-of-incarceration-without-end-efc930b198d7 https://medium.com/exploring-history/7-worlds-longest-servin...
"James Holmes, the perpetrator of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, received an astonishing 12 life sentences along with an additional 3,318 years"
The cap is the heat death of the universe for the US
- fencepost 2y agoI suspect that this pattern for sentencing is so that even if some charges/convictions are reversed the remaining sentence makes that reversal not really significant in real-world terms.