I was reading about Jeffrey Dahmer's 15 life sentences equalling out to 943 years in prison. I was under the idea that man can only live at most about 100 years.
If a person or being is given a multiple life sentence in prison, you think they would make more sense of it by setting an execution date three days after the trial subsided.
2006-09-16 07:52:40 · 6 answers · asked by baby_got-bak 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
thats so the creeps cant ever get paroled
2006-09-16 07:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by john doe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on how the sentences were given also has something to do with it, ie, concurrent sentences mean that, the sentences all run at the same time and danged if I can find what the other phrase of word is that says as each one is finished the next one begins, and they ALL have to be served. therefore, 100 appeals would have to be run, before the person could be released, and, since that would take a loooong time, they probably wouldn't be released before they were too old to no longer be a menace to society.
2006-09-16 08:09:20 · answer #2 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take convicted DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/10/24/muhammad.profile/
He was sentenced to death in VA for one sniper shooting
He was sentenced to six consecutive life terms in MD.
Let's say the VA appeal is overturned - Muhammad walks out court but into the hands of MD authorities.
VA cannot retry Muhammad because of double jeopardy - so Muhammad serves six life sentences in MD. If a court overturns all 6 - Muhammad walks out of MD court a free man. If a court overturns 5 of the 6 life sentences, Muhammad serves one life sentence without parole.
2006-09-16 09:48:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if one conviction was overturned or parole applied, then the next sentence would automatically kick in, and so on.
It is effectively a way of doing life without possibility of parole, and drastically reducing the chances of overturning the sentence on appeal (unless each and every conviction was overturned).
Also many states don't allow for executions.
2006-09-16 07:54:44 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because its life it is long
2006-09-19 11:26:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know that is so stupid. but there is parole. they could get parole for one. and then the next would start
2006-09-16 07:57:42 · answer #6 · answered by Shea Butta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋