I just heard on the TV that someone got life in prison plus 47 years. I never understood this. Life in prison is life in prison so what does this mean when they get additional time on top of life in prison?
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In Indiana, life in prison meant 20 years. In other words you did 20 years before any possibility of parole. If they wanted you to die in prison you got life plus some years. So the parole board decided if you could get out.
You have gotten great answers.
To add a subjective perspective, say someone kills a group of friends, including one of your nearest and dearest. The killer gets convicted for one of the friends murder, then another of the friends murder. When they get to the murder of your dearest, the court says; nah, we already have enough, they’ll be here for life anyway so it doesn’t matter.
All of the crimes needs to be acknowledged. Everyone deserves justice.
Life in prison does NOT mean life in prison. That’s what confuses you.
“In the United States, people serving a life sentence are eligible for parole after 25 years. If they are serving two consecutive life sentences, it means they have to wait at least 50 years to be considered for parole.”
https://study.com/learn/lesson/life-sentence-length.html#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20people,to%20be%20considered%20for%20parole.
When I was a kid a high school neighbor told us “life” meant 33 years because that’s how long Jesus lived lol.
One thing to note – the sentences are rarely consecutive, they’re normally concurrent. So if you’re sentenced to 20 years for one crime, 15 years for another, 45 years for a third, and 3 years for the last, you’re not going to serve 83 years, you’ll serve 45, all the sentences will be served at the same time.
Like people have pointed out, this allows accounting for things like convictions being overturned, or being pardoned for some (but not all) of the crimes, etc.
Each crime they’ve been convicted of carries a sentence, so they might have life in prison for one crime and 47 years for the other.
Where this becomes relevant is if, for example, they successfully appeal the sentence for the first crime, they would still have to serve time for the second.
Multiple charges, means that even if they somehow squeeze out of the life in prison charge they’ll have to also work off the 47 years.
This is why you slap criminals with everything you can; one so you increase your chances something sticks and two you increase the chances they actually serve.
I am not a lawyer, but according to [this site](https://recordinglaw.com/how-long-is-a-life-sentence/), life in prison depends on the state in the U.S., and varies between 2 and 99 years (or the actual life of the prisoner).
Prison sentences vary from state to state and country to country. The United States by the standards of the rest of the world has a very aggressive penal system that imprison more often, and for longer periods of time than many other countries.
A life sentence is usually reserved for capitol cases. A capitol case tends to be 1st and second degreet murder. First degree is a premeditated murder, where as second degree is murder where one has hatred or malice in their heart. Lesser murder might be unintentional homicide, or accidental death, or death as a result of mayhem.
A life sentence is usually anything longer than 20 years in prison. While we may see 20 years as not being a true life sentence, in truth, many criminals will find themselves a different person, everyone they know back home will have moved on, parents will likely be dead, and children will have grown up with out their respective parent present. Starting over after thay long a period, ra-enterig Society, amd trying again will literally be starting a new life.
Now, most life sentences aren’t truly 20 year sentences, they are life sentences, but with the possibility of parole after 20 years. The offender will be on parole for the rest of their life, at any time a P.O. may dream them out of their release agreement and back into prison they go.
Now there are those who have been assigned a life sentence without the possibility of parole. These felons will rot in prison for the rest of their lives. This punishment however is reserved for those that would otherwise be eligible for the death penalty, or those who have proved themselves unfit for society through an extended history of extreme offenses.
Because these flippant “life” sentences, satisfy *The Electorate.* 1. Never getting out 2. We didn’t kill them. Middle ground. Don’t mention backhander’s………
Our Judicial, Civil Police, Civil/Public Services, Health Care and on, have joined with the Politicians in knowing the game is an index link, payoff with a job in the private sector. Morals? What is That
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