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In the field of criminal law, the principles of rationality and proportionality are most often used in sentencing. Moreover, not only when determining its size, but also when determining the type of punishment. But in the United States, they look at this in a completely different way and may impose a sentence of 300 years.
In the United States, there is a practice of imposing several life sentences for one person. Why are they doing that ?
The US government is very fond of bureaucracy, and thus strictly follows the laws of their country. They have such a rule that if someone has committed several crimes, then for each episode he receives a punishment, in the end the punishment may exceed more than he lives.
As for parole, everything is also complicated, the reason is that if several punishments are imposed, the attacker is serving one term after another and he will not be able to get out on parole. In the state of Oklahoma, there is an "85% rule" - before a convicted person is allowed to apply for parole, he must serve at least 85% of the entire sentence. And in the case of punishment in the form of 300 years in prison, for example, this opportunity will disappear by itself.
In the history of legislation, Charles Scott Robinson was sentenced to the longest prison term - 30,000 years. The jury sentenced him to 5,000 years for each violent crime.
( ) If we consider the United States and Russia, then our term of course is not 300 years as in America, but the conditions of detention in Russia, unfortunately, wish the best, but no conditions of detention can replace freedom of man!
In the United States, there is a practice of imposing several life sentences for one person. Why are they doing that ?
The US government is very fond of bureaucracy, and thus strictly follows the laws of their country. They have such a rule that if someone has committed several crimes, then for each episode he receives a punishment, in the end the punishment may exceed more than he lives.
As for parole, everything is also complicated, the reason is that if several punishments are imposed, the attacker is serving one term after another and he will not be able to get out on parole. In the state of Oklahoma, there is an "85% rule" - before a convicted person is allowed to apply for parole, he must serve at least 85% of the entire sentence. And in the case of punishment in the form of 300 years in prison, for example, this opportunity will disappear by itself.
In the history of legislation, Charles Scott Robinson was sentenced to the longest prison term - 30,000 years. The jury sentenced him to 5,000 years for each violent crime.
( ) If we consider the United States and Russia, then our term of course is not 300 years as in America, but the conditions of detention in Russia, unfortunately, wish the best, but no conditions of detention can replace freedom of man!
