For example you’re reading about someone convicted of a crime and they get…2 consecutive life sentences.
Or where one guy gets 300 years and another gets 500 years?
I’m not sure of the additional years are meant as a punctuation to a sentence that reflects the crime, or isbthe judge/system trying to cover their bases in case of life extension becoming a thing? (And even if life extension is discovered, that person would be serving a sentence, and probably not eligible or rather able to get/receive whatever the extension would involve)
So, anyone wanna break this down for me?
*Not sure if my flair on this relates to economics, so putting it on other for now*
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If I don´t forget myself, the reason is to prevent the convicted from getting out early in case if years would be removed from the penalty from good behavior in prison or some sort of apeal with the goal of decreasing the amount of years.
In short it is to make sure someone who has been convicted to life gets to serve the time irregardless of what happens
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