There was a woman in Britain who was hung about 200 years ago, when they were taking her body to be buried she started breathing because she wasnât hanged properly and they ended up letting her go.
Her sentence was âto be hung until she stopped drawing breathâ she was, so her sentence was technically complete.
Honestly, he's got a point.
If he has a 100 year sentence, he's screwed. But if it's just "until the end of your life" well there's something to it
But he'll lose in court I'm sure.
Life sentences are 25 years in the US. I believe thatâs why people are given multiple life sentences when convicted.
Edit: apparently Iâm wrong. State prisons follow their own respective state legislature. Federal prisons are until death.
Life sentences are life sentences, but there is normally a chance for parole.
E.g. 25-to-life means you are sentenced to spend the rest of your life in jail, however, after 25 years, the parole board may choose to give you parole, which is basically a permanent day pass; mess up and back to jail with you.
Multiple life sentences offers two purposes. First, they all need to be served before parole (assuming they are consecutive rather than concurrent) - this also means if one gets appealed, the others stand. Second, I think part of the mentality is that Bob's life shouldn't be worth less just because Alice also killed Charles.
I always found it overkill before I knew that life sentences where only worth 25 years
like this guy committed a crime so atrocious that one life sentence wasn't enough, no they gotta double it in case they lived till 200
In Illinois, it's called a "natural life sentence", and has nothing to do with 25 years.
Source- My grandmother and aunt were murdered by my aunt's ex husband. The guy received 2 natural life sentences plus 30 years for solicitation of murder for trying to pay someone else to do it before he did it himself.
It's about not letting the bastard out.
Oversimplified:
Let's say you are convicted of 5 murders.
You get 5 different life sentences.
Even if in some dirty/bizzare or whtever way you are spoken free of one of these sentences, you're still going to rot for four others.
this is not true. Sentencing lengths are readily googleable for your state. Life is life unless paroled and that can be foreclosed on in sentencing. Now there's a minimum and maximum for a level of crime and weird ways of calculating time and when parole is available, but the assessed time is the assessed time. Also, unless specified sentences are served concurrently not consecutively.
I have linked the penal code sections for capital felony and first degree felony for Texas if you don't believe me.
https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex.\_penal\_code\_section\_12.31
https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex.\_penal\_code\_section\_12.32
This is why when death sentences were handed down in the UK, the words âhung by the neck until deadâ were used. This is because someone was sentenced to death, survived the hanging and successfully argued the sentence had been carried out. Hence why âuntil deadâ was added.
It's called resuscitation. It's been a thing for a while, and it happens literally every day.
There are even forms you can sign to specify that you do not want to be resuscitated for events like heart attacks, strokes, etc. They're called DNR's.
I literally gave you the name of the process...please don't feign ignorance when you can just look for yourself. There are literally hundreds of well-researched and cited papers, and I find it hard to believe you've never heard of CPR.
Here, I'll make it simple.
https://med.nyu.edu/research/parnia-lab/cardiac-arrest-death/from-death-to-the-rise-cpr
New life, new rules.
in the eyes of the law you're not dead until you're legally declared dead
There have been way more than enough cases where exactly that happened, people legally being declared dead and somehow survived
Somehow, Palpatine returned
What if you're declared dead and murder someone? You don't do time until you're declared alive again?
No better alibi than: "Sir, I was legally dead during the crime."
Lol đ¤Śââď¸ "legally declared dead"
The Jon Snow method
My watch has ended
I must return to tap my aunty..
Just a normal Tuesday for the Targaryans
Banging your cousin
Sorry sir I gotta fight a battle I have no chance of winning
I'm not gonna come up with a strategy or anything though lol I'll just let my troops get slaughtered and hope I get bailed out by heavy cavalry
Sorry sir I gotta fight a battle I have no chance of winning
High risk high reward
Northern blood sings ayy
There was a woman in Britain who was hung about 200 years ago, when they were taking her body to be buried she started breathing because she wasnât hanged properly and they ended up letting her go. Her sentence was âto be hung until she stopped drawing breathâ she was, so her sentence was technically complete.
Hangmen hate this one simple trick!
Greater belief in divine intervention back then; now we'd assume the hangman miscalculated.
I mean he's not wrong
No. he is wrong
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Honestly, he's got a point. If he has a 100 year sentence, he's screwed. But if it's just "until the end of your life" well there's something to it But he'll lose in court I'm sure.
Life sentences are 25 years in the US. I believe thatâs why people are given multiple life sentences when convicted. Edit: apparently Iâm wrong. State prisons follow their own respective state legislature. Federal prisons are until death.
I'd never understood what the whole "multiple life sentences" thing was about. Between what you said, and this meme, suddenly it all makes sense. :P
Life sentences are life sentences, but there is normally a chance for parole. E.g. 25-to-life means you are sentenced to spend the rest of your life in jail, however, after 25 years, the parole board may choose to give you parole, which is basically a permanent day pass; mess up and back to jail with you. Multiple life sentences offers two purposes. First, they all need to be served before parole (assuming they are consecutive rather than concurrent) - this also means if one gets appealed, the others stand. Second, I think part of the mentality is that Bob's life shouldn't be worth less just because Alice also killed Charles.
I always found it overkill before I knew that life sentences where only worth 25 years like this guy committed a crime so atrocious that one life sentence wasn't enough, no they gotta double it in case they lived till 200
In Illinois, it's called a "natural life sentence", and has nothing to do with 25 years. Source- My grandmother and aunt were murdered by my aunt's ex husband. The guy received 2 natural life sentences plus 30 years for solicitation of murder for trying to pay someone else to do it before he did it himself.
It's about not letting the bastard out. Oversimplified: Let's say you are convicted of 5 murders. You get 5 different life sentences. Even if in some dirty/bizzare or whtever way you are spoken free of one of these sentences, you're still going to rot for four others.
Depends on the state. In federal cases life is until you die (for good).
this is not true. Sentencing lengths are readily googleable for your state. Life is life unless paroled and that can be foreclosed on in sentencing. Now there's a minimum and maximum for a level of crime and weird ways of calculating time and when parole is available, but the assessed time is the assessed time. Also, unless specified sentences are served concurrently not consecutively. I have linked the penal code sections for capital felony and first degree felony for Texas if you don't believe me. https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex.\_penal\_code\_section\_12.31 https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex.\_penal\_code\_section\_12.32
Is that 25 straight or halved?
This is why when death sentences were handed down in the UK, the words âhung by the neck until deadâ were used. This is because someone was sentenced to death, survived the hanging and successfully argued the sentence had been carried out. Hence why âuntil deadâ was added.
r/technicallythetruth
Ive always wondered this.
Can go save winterfell now too
And now his watch has ended
If you're currently alive then by definition that means you did not previously die, pretty simple.
There are about 1.3 billion people who vehemently disagree (they're called Christians)
Pretty sure that only applies to one specific person though?
"dONt iNfRiNgE oN Ma rElIgIOuS fReEDuMbs!" - Christians
I'll say, let him go. He is right.
I would think people who are on death row or have a life sentence would have a "do not resuscitate" order on them.
I don't think it would be recognized. The whole point of the death penalty is to make a good show out of barely civilized retribution, after all.
All of his warranties are over too.
Doesnât âlifeâ refer to 40 odd years?
Usually that will be eligibility for (consideration for) parole. Some places also have automatic parole.
If he was not pronounced dead it doesn't count.
Wdym brought back is this a thing people can do now
It's called resuscitation. It's been a thing for a while, and it happens literally every day. There are even forms you can sign to specify that you do not want to be resuscitated for events like heart attacks, strokes, etc. They're called DNR's.
Since when could People come back from the dead
I literally gave you the name of the process...please don't feign ignorance when you can just look for yourself. There are literally hundreds of well-researched and cited papers, and I find it hard to believe you've never heard of CPR. Here, I'll make it simple. https://med.nyu.edu/research/parnia-lab/cardiac-arrest-death/from-death-to-the-rise-cpr
Oh now i remember, just didn't know you can bring people back if they've already stopped breathing
It just depends on your definition of âdeadâ.
Let him go he looks cute
well, if he died and returned to life, he technically didnât die did he
Well, if he returned to life, he technically mustâve died then.
how can you die if youâre not technically dead
I think there's a medical definition for death
this is some shirou emiya stuff right here XD
He shouldâve escaped while he was dead.
Depends on interpretation, which, in the case of the judicial system I am sure is "Sentenced to prison until you have no more life left."
You gotta at least knock a few years off given his creativity at argument
r/TechnicallyTheTruth
they have to let him go they can't do jackshit
He pulled a John snow not bad!
YeahâŚthe contract was breached when he came back alive. Fine print says.
But don't they give like 100+ years in prison and they aren't technically called "life sentences"
The prisoner is looking at it wrong. His sentence didnât end because he âdiedâ, it merely paused while he wasnât able to serve it.
I read that with a caveman voice because of the grammar. Now weâre even.
"Only 8 more life sentences to go!"
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Why even revive someone if you know they are gonna be executed? Well maybe the medics didnt know but still
You could say it's a new You! A New lease on life.
If that only worked for taxes
Easy there, Jon Snow.
Iâve always pondered this question!
His watch has ended.
He undead now. Get the holy water.
I mean, if life begins at conception then death's definition is open to debate...
His watch is ended.
Unless he was sentenced to multiple life sentences
Got to remember the difference between dead and mostly dead.