Talk:Back-to-back life sentences

I wrote this page as it was highly requested.Dan 19:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

What's the point of sentencing someone to 48 consecutive life sentences without parole?

Someone dies at the end of the first life sentence, right? So what do we do with the 47 other sentences? And what's the point of heaping 480 years on top of that? The longest anyone has been proven by official records to live was 122 years, and that was an outlier by a wide margin. So, theoretically, Mr. Gary Ridgeway will have been long deceased by the end of his sentence, as if anyone would bother to keep Mr. Ridgeway and his skeleton in a jail cell for 3000-6000 years. 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire was still around. The most severe punishment at the time? Crucifixion, in ancient Rome anyhow...Why not just sentence him to a "life sentence without parole" and leave it at that? 204.52.215.107 (talk) 21:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Federal life sentences -- defined as # of years?

Jeffrey MacDonald has an expected release date (2070 or something!) for his 3 consecutive (back-to-back) life sentences; does that reflect "life" meaning some large # of years rather than "until you're dead", or is it the practice of the Feds to set expected release dates based on typical intervals before lifers have won parole? (In that case, the exact year is just an actuarial estimate, and expected to be too low for some and to high for others.) He has so far passed up at least one chance to ask for parole, and asked but was denied once. I think he can ask again in 2020.
--Jerzy•t 12:15, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Is this article needed?

This article seems like it should be integrated into a general article on sentencing, as part of a differentiation between consecutive and concurrent sentencing. Arllaw (talk) 17:49, 1 November 2021 (UTC)