Does this mean he will be buried at the prison?

[DGM]

James Holmes gets a really, really, really long sentence.....

The man who unleashed a murderous attack on a packed Colorado movie theater was ordered Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years — the maximum allowed by law

Sounds like the "plus" is after life......................

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

List of prison cemeteries[edit]
United States
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery
Louisiana
Point Lookout Cemetery and Point Lookout II, Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola), West Feliciana Parish[3]
One cemetery at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, St. Gabriel[3]
Mississippi
2 cemeteries, Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Sunflower County, Mississippi[4]
Texas
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, Huntsville (the unclaimed remains of inmates who were executed for capital murder are buried here, but the cemetery also includes the remains of non-executed inmates)
One cemetery, Clemens Unit, Brazoria County, Texas[5]
Imperial State Farm Cemetery, Central Unit, Sugar Land[6]
Gatesville State School, Gatesville[7]

 

[casebro]

What will they do with his body between his death and finishing his sentence?

 

[marplots]

I think it's cruel and unusual to impose a sentence that long. Mandatory minimums have got to go.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What will they do with his body between his death and finishing his sentence?

They'll harvest the daisies regularly.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think it's cruel and unusual to impose a sentence that long. Mandatory minimums have got to go.

Tell me how 3,000 years is a minimum, please.

 

[mijopaalmc]

Tell me how 3,000 years is a minimum, please.

You mean you haven't met our radiant argument bot?

 

[cullennz]

It would be cool if he was still alive

 

[Giz]

James Holmes gets a really, really, really long sentence.....



Sounds like the "plus" is after life......................

The defined maximum is life plus 3318 years?. Glad we had that sorted out on the law books, the idea that he might have only gotten life plus 2318 years is frightening.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Not the longest, of course:

On December 23, 1994, Oklahoma child rapist Charles Scott Robinson received the longest jail term to a single person on multiple counts. Robinson received a sentence of 30,000 years—5,000 for each of the six counts against him.

 

[cullennz]

Seems a bit of a stupid "We are this tough on crime man!" willy waving

What is the point of that sentence?

 

[commandlinegamer]

Not the longest, of course:

Longest US, but world record currently held by Thailand. Some catching up to do.

 

[DGM]

The defined maximum is life plus 3318 years?. Glad we had that sorted out on the law books, the idea that he might have only gotten life plus 2318 years is frightening.

I guess my question really is, does this mean the family(or anyone else) can't claim the body for burial elsewhere until the sentence is complete (create a memorial, public urinal, ect)?

 

[cullennz]

I guess my question really is, does this mean the family(or anyone else) can't claim the body for burial elsewhere until the sentence is complete (create a memorial, public urinal, ect)?

Would be pretty silly if it did

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Longest US, but world record currently held by Thailand. Some catching up to do.

That was a "there are longer", not "this is the longest".

 

[Arcade22]

Well, since they couldn't kill him i guess they had to do the next best thing and hand out the longest prison sentence possible, so everyone gets how evil and bad his actions were.

Now any would be spree-killer better think twice before they get to spend a millennium or three in prison.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

He'll be out in only 337 years! The system just doesn't work.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

"Now, the lawmakers agreed that the maximum had to be well over 3,200 years - but certainly not as much as 3,400!"

 

[Whip]

Tell me how 3,000 years is a minimum, please.

 

[marplots]

Not the longest, of course:

On December 23, 1994, Oklahoma child rapist Charles Scott Robinson received the longest jail term to a single person on multiple counts. Robinson received a sentence of 30,000 years—5,000 for each of the six counts against him.

And here we see the injustice inherent in the system. When child rape gets ten times the sentence that murder does.

Longest US, but world record currently held by Thailand. Some catching up to do.

That was a "there are longer", not "this is the longest".

Sentence envy. I blame male judges.