Yeah, if the guy only got, say, 5 life sentences, after the 5th resurrection he’d be a free man. With the life plus 1000 years, he’ll still be in jail for a while after being revived. People would be denmanding the death penalty, to be carried out immediately, so in a few days they’d be free again.
Yeah, does anybody know what made him plead guilty? Did he get some favorable assurances from the prosecutor? Will he avoid solitary or something? What’s in it for him?
I don’t really follow this stuff, but last I heard he had plead not guilty so I’m curious what made him change his mind.
I wonder if he would have gotten less time if he had simply murdered the three girls.
You think that hasn’t been tried? Jerry Rosenberg once had a serious heart attack and was revived after his heart stopped. After he recovered, he sued to be released on the argument that he had completed his life sentence.
So basically, we have the rest of this guy’s life to find the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac.
I believe it allowed him to avoid the chance of being sentenced to death.
Quantum Field Theory? Seriously,what’s it mean?
(Since this is GQ, I assume it’s not another, better known abbreviation that happens to be missing a terminal ‘t’)
Yes - this. There may have been other considerations that he took into account - like perhaps HE didn’t want to hear the accounts be retold in front of his community - especially since he is going to lose anyway.
I think the 1,000 thing stems from all the different counts. If you are a judge - you usually don’t get the chance to throw the book at someone like this. You might as well sentence them to the max for each count. It also seems to be someone psychotic ally consoling to victims.
It kind of says -
“we hear your trauma - and he is being punished for each and everything he did to you”
rather than…
“Hey - sorry you spent 10 years getting raped, but if you don’t mind - we are just going to give him life without parole to make this go faster. Either way he isn’t getting out.”
Sometimes judges/prosecutors will actually add on stuff like destruction of property or theft - for taking/breaking a woman’s panties. They want to give him everything they got - even if it doesn’t mean anything extra time wise.
Quoted for truth. I.e., “damn straight, skippy”.
The law is supposed to be blind so were he convicted of all the charges then it would be likely that the eventual sentence would reach astronomical proportions. As such, you have to go through the motions and sentence him appropriately.
However, as absurd as it might seem, handing out a 1000 years sentence makes it appear unjust to me. Basically, 1000 years is too long a sentence for his crimes. Something that wouldn’t have crossed my mind if it had been a life sentence.
He could still get parole posthumously after, say, 750 years or so. And you wouldn’t want that to happen!
My WAG is ‘Quite Fucking True’. 
I understand it means “Quoted For Truth”.
I never thought it to mean anything other than quite fucking true.
QFT
People who’ve never been anywhere near a prison and have watched way too much TV fondly imagine that there’s a kind of honour among prisoners and that people who commit terrible crimes will be targeted by the rest of the prison population.
As explained to me by a relative that did time in a number of prisons: Jail is full of guys who like to hurt other people. It’s full of guys who think violence towards women is A-OK. It’s is full of rapists. And so on.
Unless you raped/beat/murdered someone’s sister/mother/wife/etc, prisoners do not give a fuck how many chicks you raped, beat, or murdered.
Prisoners have open season on child molesters, informers, and ex cops. If you’re not in one of those categories, and you don’t piss off anyone dangerous, you won’t get any special treatment.
Uh, Shakester, he raped children. (Minors, anyway.) And, arguably, killed them.
The law might define teenage girls as “children”, it’s probably a bit more open to debate to your average jail inmate.