Surely, you have often seen in the news how any criminal in the United States is sentenced to several life sentences or tens of thousands of years in prison. Naturally, he will not be able to physically serve such a term, since he simply will not survive.
But why, then, do federal and state laws provide for such restraints? Read about this in our material.
In the United States, unlike in Russia, there are no imprisonment limits for criminals convicted under several articles. Moreover, if a person has committed a number of crimes at once, the punishments for them are summed up. Thus, some cybercriminals receive periods of several thousand years. But isn't it easier to replace them with the death penalty?
It turns out that it is not easier, because in many US states the death penalty has been abolished, but there is a minimum period after serving which a prisoner can apply for parole. Thanks to this rule, a particularly dangerous criminal can be released ahead of time. But if, according to the verdict, several life sentences are established at once, even having received parole, he will immediately begin to serve the next sentence.
Oklahoma, for example, has the 85% rule. According to him, before asking for early release, a prisoner must serve in prison at least 85% of the term. And if its term is several thousand years, there can be no question of any parole.
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The term, which fell into the Guinness Book of Records, was received by the rapist Charles Scott Robinson. The jury insisted that the Oklahoma District Judge give the perpetrator 5,000 years in prison for each proven rape of a child. Thus, Robinson received 30 thousand years of imprisonment with the clarification that all sentences must be served sequentially.
In 1996, in the same Oklahoma, Allan Wayne McLaurin was sentenced to 12,750 years in prison. The man was accused of kidnapping, rape and robbery. McLaurin had an accomplice - Darron Anderson. Back in 1993, the offender was sentenced to 2,200 years. But Anderson was not satisfied with this verdict, and he asked for a reconsideration of the case.
After re-examining the episodes with the participation of a man, the judge sentenced Darron to 11 thousand years in prison. One of the subsequent appeals of the prisoner led to the fact that he was "mowed" for half a millennium.
"Killer Clown" John Wayne Gacy is one of the most ruthless maniacs in history. In the 70s, a man kidnapped, raped and killed 33 young men, for which he received a sentence of 12 death sentences and 21 life sentences.
In 1994, one of the sentences was carried out - Gacy was executed by injection.
But such punishments are popular not only in the United States. For example, in 1989 in Thailand, the fraudster Chamoy Thipyaso and her seven accomplices were sentenced to 141,078 years in prison for large-scale fraud in banking transactions. This case is also listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Abdullah Galeb Al-Barghouti, a former influential official in the Palestinian Authority Administration, received 67 life sentences for organizing numerous terrorist attacks against Israelis, but such punishments are popular not only in the United States. For example, in 1989 in Thailand, the fraudster Chamoy Thipyaso and her seven accomplices were sentenced to 141,078 years in prison for large-scale fraud in banking transactions. This case is also listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
But Abdullah Galeb Al-Barghouti, a former influential official in the Palestinian Authority administration, received 67 life sentences for organizing numerous terrorist attacks against Israelis.