Does this mean he will be buried at the prison?

[marplots]

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

That's not an argument.

 

[Mike!]

They'll have him stuffed and put on display at the prison until the sentence has run it's full course. Then, any surviving relative's that have any interest in having him buried, or reanimated, may do so at that time.

 

[marplots]

Maybe any children he has while in prison also have to stay in prison. And so on.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

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

What is the point of that sentence?

Life without parole for the murder charges. He was also convicted of 140 counts of attempted murder and possessing explosives. He got the max years for each of those additional charges. They totaled up the years.

When there is a conviction for multiple charges, the court has to set a sentence for each charge (even if it goes well beyond life) because there is always the possibility that one or more of the charges could be overturned on appeal. If that happens, they have to know how to recalculate the sentence (which, in some cases, could then end up being less than life).

 

[marplots]

I have been told that the death penalty is a bad idea, even in cases like this, because there is a small but real possibility the convicted person will turn out to be innocent.

 

[Brian-M]

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

More importantly, what do they do with the body when the sentence is over?
Give it a bus-ticket for the nearest city?

 

[fuelair]

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

What is the point of that sentence?

Makes it functionally impossible for a POS to murder and maim people and ever be free. Y'all know what I prefer for anything like that, so I won't bother repeating it. Feel free to hyperventilate over it though!!!!

 

[fuelair]

More importantly, what do they do with the body when the sentence is over?
Give it a bus-ticket for the nearest city?

Flush it - or whatever they do with **** by then.....

 

[cullennz]

Just accidently leave the dude with onea pistol in his cell for 20 minutes with one bullet.

The cost savings would run into the millions.

 

[catsmate]

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

It depends on the jurisdiction but an autopsy man be required; they're mandatory in some places when a person dies in custody.

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

What is the point of that sentence?

It's an election year.

 

[timhau]

Life without parole for the murder charges. He was also convicted of 140 counts of attempted murder and possessing explosives. He got the max years for each of those additional charges. They totaled up the years.

When there is a conviction for multiple charges, the court has to set a sentence for each charge (even if it goes well beyond life) because there is always the possibility that one or more of the charges could be overturned on appeal. If that happens, they have to know how to recalculate the sentence (which, in some cases, could then end up being less than life).

You're making sense. Stop it right now!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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

I don't have a problem with this, except for the fact that the death penalty isn't available.

 

[Aepervius]

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)?

No, the family can reclaim the body once he is dead, no matter the sentence.

Still i would advise burying him under a fake name.

 

[Brian-M]

Still i would advise burying him under a fake name.

Better if they just scatter his remains.








(Regardless of whether or not they decide to have his body cremated.)

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Better if they just scatter his remains.

To your scattered bodies go.

 

[Resume]

Just accidently leave the dude with onea pistol in his cell for 20 minutes with one bullet.

The cost savings would run into the millions.

Make sure he's in solitary first, otherwise the ******* would probably shoot another inmate.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Make sure he's in solitary first, otherwise the ******* would probably shoot another inmate.

And don't forget to bill the family for the bullet.

 

[Cainkane1]

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



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

When a person like this dies they get buried on the prison grounds unless a family member claims the body. There have been instances like when John Wayne Gacy was executed where people didn't want his body buried in their cemetaries. The graves of people like this attract vandals and too much negative attention which often includes stealing the marker as in the case of Ed Gein. A man named Albert Fish was so hated that the prison cemetary has no marker for him so that prisoners won't vandalize his grave.

 

[Brian-M]

To your scattered bodies go.

Maybe a killer would do well there. But then again, maybe it might make the act killing seem fairly pointless.

[derail]

A lot of things in that series never made much sense to me.

For example, they've spent thousands of years in preparation, they have the resources to create a designer planet, to physically reconstruct the bodies of everyone who ever lived and bring them back to life, to continuously supply billions of people with food, and have spare resources to randomly supply people with luxuries such as (IIRC) tobacco....

But the task of distributing the occasional pamphlet explaining what's going on in several of the more common languages from history, so that these billions of people can know what it is they're meant to be trying to achieve, that's too much of an effort for them?

Or the relatively minuscule effort of having this information engraved on the food stations (whatever they were called in the novel) during manufacture, or building speakers into them which would speak the message in a variety of languages, that would put them over-budget?

Sorry, I don't buy it.

Other stuff about the story bugs me too, but that's my biggest problem with the scenario. (Although it's been so long since I read the books, that I can't be sure that I remember any of it correctly.)

Better a ringworld than a riverworld, in my opinion.

(Googling the title you quoted, because I didn't remember that it was the title of a Riverworld book, I discovered that they've made Riverworld movies. WHY would they turn it into MOVIES? It makes no sense to me. Reality is a disturbing place to live.)

 

[CynicalSkeptic]

When a person like this dies they get buried on the prison grounds unless a family member claims the body. There have been instances like when John Wayne Gacy was executed where people didn't want his body buried in their cemetaries. The graves of people like this attract vandals and too much negative attention which often includes stealing the marker as in the case of Ed Gein. A man named Albert Fish was so hated that the prison cemetary has no marker for him so that prisoners won't vandalize his grave.

Is this guy gonna be remembered 50 years from now?