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Originally Posted by 4X4
Ensuring that that person is never, ever let out of prison.
If this guy is guilty (or if it turns out to be someone else), I'd be proud of the Canadian justice system if the guilty person got max for each sentence. 25+25+10. 60 years before the possibility of parole.
Of course, the father in me wants that 60 years to be just for killing the child.
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I understand and completely respect that sentiment. At some point, though, multiple life sentences becomes a bit silly. Look at this list of the longest prison sentences. Someone in the USA got 30,000 years in prison? One guy was sentenced to 21,250 years in jail, but on appeal he had it successfully lowered by 500 years. Arial Castro plead guilty to over 900 counts and got a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole (which I'm fine with)... plus 1000 years. What's the point of that?
And some of these guys are still eligible for parole! (although I doubt they would ever be let out)
I suppose this is one way of really emphasizing the seriousness and brutality of these crimes. If you want to say someone needs to go to jail forever and never be let out, I get that. Arguing over 21,250 years in jail or 19,750 is completely pointless. Giving someone 30,000 years in jail? Waste of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ison_sentences