- 17 Jul 2019 01:19
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A life sentence isn't unusually harsh for the US, a lot of people get sentenced to death for that type of crime. But usually the sentence is just life without parole, they don't give you life plus 419 years unless they're pandering to a public hysteria.
It actually is kind of harsh given his background and mental illness, normally those would be taken into consideration but the current political climate demanded that the court bury him under the jail.
Kaiserschmarrn wrote:I can't really tell whether this sentence is harsher than usual in the US. My impression is that it isn't rare for people to get extremely long sentences.
A life sentence isn't unusually harsh for the US, a lot of people get sentenced to death for that type of crime. But usually the sentence is just life without parole, they don't give you life plus 419 years unless they're pandering to a public hysteria.
It actually is kind of harsh given his background and mental illness, normally those would be taken into consideration but the current political climate demanded that the court bury him under the jail.
Socialism without freedom is fascism.