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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I wonder about these super long prison sentences instead of using life in prison...

Is it...

A. A quirk of the justice system?
B. A way to allow technical leniency, say get a sentence reduced by 20 years, yet with no practical change to the convicted?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Depending on the justice system you can serve the time for several crimes in parallel. So if you get convicted of five cases each with 20 years, you get 100 years total, but will only spend 20 in prison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

There’s not a lot of detail in the article but it will be that they were each charged with multiple crimes.

It does mention in the article that three victims were disappeared and murdered so that could be a conviction for kidnapping and one for murder of each of the three victims. That’s six crimes each.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And that's our entry for "bad headline of the day", folks.

No, they were not ordered to serve out their sentence in a cartel-run ranch.

They were sentenced for their participation in running the ranch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You just copied the original headline, this isn't on you.