Posted: 6/15/2007 1:19:44 PM EDT
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in court. Defendant 1: (~23 yoa, follower) Killed by police in the act Defendant 2: (26 yoa, follower) 50 years in prison with a 10 year minimum. (He will serve at least 44 yrs.) Defendant 3: (56 yoa, ringleader, ) Life w/o parole for 2* Murder in death of D1; followed by 4 consecutive 50 year sentences w/10 yr minimum each for Robberies. (He will serve life, followed by at least 176 yrs.) Cross Florida off your list of stop 'n' robs. ETA: Sentencing the AnyReasonableFellow way. |
I highly question that statement that it costs more to execute them. One of the reasons why it costs so much to execute them is that executions happen very rarely. In Arizona, there was a 4 year break from our last execution to the one before that. During all of those 4 years, we have to upkeep the chamber the execution happens in, and have to pay for appeals, and to keep a special court that handles just death penalty cases. Have it so 1 or 2 people a year are executed, and the cost of an execution comes down, and you'd start to see some savings from long-term incarcation. |
Came up during the sentencing - as mitigation  . The judge was kind enough to point out that thanks to the BGs, the officers will have to live the rest of their days with the knowledge they took a human life, however degraded it was. That may shed some light on the sentences.
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Gotta love fixed costs 
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