How 2 punishments awarded by courts to the same person be implemented at the same time?

Question

This is a doubt and question regarding legal matters. No legal advice is necessary. Just a clarification.. Yesterday the Mumbai court in INDIA gave 2 punishments to one person ( 1.Life imprisonment for murder and 2. Five years imprisonment for a grave offence) The court directed that the 2 punishments be implemented same time. My doubt is when he is undergoing life imprisonment, how the 5 years imprisonment can be implemented? When it can not be implemented what is the rationale in awarding a second punishment. Any legal experts are welcome to clarify this doubt. Thank you.

Answer 1

They consider that consecutive terms of sentence - it basically means the crime is bad enough that it deserves a sentence, but not so bad that it needs to be tacked on the end of his other sentence.

basically what it will do to this man is push his eligibility for parole (at least in the US, I cannot speak on Indian prison terms) back by several years, assuring he stays in jail longer.

Answer 2

You don't need a legal guru for this one. The sentences run concurrently and not consecutively, since they cannot do otherwise at the time of sentencing. The person's life sentence may be altered in years to come by the ability to obtain parole, a new trial because of new evidence or any number of reasons. Should that sentence be changed then the next sentence may also be changed to run consecutively, reduced to time already spent, or thrown out altogether if the person were now acquitted of all charges in light of new evidence or a re-trial for any other reason.

Answer 3

In one of the punishment in Tamilnadu,A women judge gave a punishment beyond 100 yrs or so.It is not the 100 yrs should be taken into account.The Legal law is ,has only two punishment ,one is life imprisonment, the other one is life.Beyond that he should be punished,say I want that person be cut into pieces , as like in butchewr shop for certain henious crimes,but the judge is helpless except to award that punishment.

Answer 4

A lot of this depends on how many charges and natures of charges are involved. Each charge is determined by itself and sentences can run concurrently (together at the same time) or consecutively ( one after the other). We just had a case close here in Ohio where a College professor held 22 people hostage and shot one to death. He was tried on 22 individual counts of kidnapping, 22 counts of gun specs, 22 counts of attempted murder and 1 count of murder. Those are the high lights,,,,other minor charges were also involved ( trespass, illegal ownership of a firearm, illegal transportation of a firearm, etc). He was sentenced to 20 yrs to life for the murder, but received 578 years for the individual gun specs. In this state, gun specs are served FIRST, run consecutively and run day for day. That translates into 578 years of confinement and THEN he starts his 20 to life term. I hope this helps you.

Answer 5

I am not a legal expert, but my thought about this is that, assuming he gets pardoned to any of the offence , he would still have to serve the other punishment, but if not, he only needs to serve the bigger punishment. In this case , we can still say that they are implemented at the same time, because both will be executed in the same duration.

Answer 6

You have to remember that a life sentence is not exactly a life time sentence, the period of a life sentence is different in different countries. That's why you can have two life sentences for one person. Basically the timespan of the punishments will stack.

Answer 7

He'll be serving the two sentences concurrently, as opposed to consecutively.

Answer 8

In my opinion both punishment run simelteniously.