What kind of sentence is "Life in prison without parole plus 1000 years?"?

In the eyes of the law the guilty must be punished on every count, this sick fuck faced a ton of them.
I almost expected the judge to mimic the Count from Sesame Street as he read out each indictment.

It’s to make a statement to the community that he is never getting out and that he is a horrific monster. That’s all – just a way for the judge to say that Castro is complete scum.

I thought it was a safeguard for the off-chance that the prisoner might come across some immortality serum…

Sentences can be cut for technicalities, good behaviour etc. This ensures that even if it’s cut by the maximum amount, he will still never be released.

This is one of those times that my confidence in the legal system is restored. The judge is making sure that no matter what happens, the only way Castro is getting out is in a pine box.

A long one.

Yes, just guilt on every count adding up, so he’ll never get out. Which is good since he doesn’t think he did anything wrong, still.

Just in case…you know?

It’s not a sentence. There is no verb.

There are legal precedents to view a life sentence as 30 years, and there is also precedent that parole review should be granted after ⅓ of the sentence is served. So while a life sentence without parole means no review by a parole board, after thirty years that sentence can be considered met and the prisoner can always go to court to ask for an age or infirmity review.

The adding 1,000 years is confirming that the court doesn’t want any future review 30 or 35 years from now, that he will die in prison without any review for compassionate or disability release.

My guess is that someone in the Ohio State penitentiary will shorten his sentence to 4–5 years by offing Castro in his cell.

I hope not, let the bastard suffer…

@elbanditoroso evil chuckle He’ll probably wish he was dead after those boys are done with him, he’s a little chubby guy, stands no chance at all unless he’s in seg.

@elbanditoroso So you’re saying he’ll end up with the same sentence as Jeffrey Dahmer?

—@tom_g LOL! One time the kids and I were at Cowtown in Wichita. They have the first Wichita court house there. We were in there fooling around and my daughter, who was about 9 at the time, went and sat behind the judges desk and became the judge. I was instructed to stand in front of her because I was the defendant. She said, “You have done something very bad.” CLANG! With the gavel.
I said, “You’re supposed to give me a sentence before you bang the gavel!”
She thought for a moment then said, “Write ‘I love dogs’ 100 times.”—

@zenvelo – justice is delivered in many ways. Some more violent than others.

@zenvelo With sex crimes, quite often they are violated by the prisoners or with an object, with the object/ broom broken off inside them causing internal bleeding and death (often they are ‘found’ after they’ve bled out.)

Course, the law could cut through all that bullshit & state that life means precisely that…life!

~ Just in case he reincarnates. Actually its to limit early release (time off for good behavior) , day passes etc..

murrkanz likeys their revenge. their favourite flavours are ‘irrational’ and ‘exorbitant’

It means that after he dies in prison, his corpse will imprisoned in a cell on Dead Row for another 1000 years.

At the tax payers expense!!!!!!!

I know a person that served 3 consecutive life terms. He was out of prison 18 years later on good behavior.

@Dutchess_III I believe it’s been discussed here on Fluther that it’s actually less costly to house them forever than to terminate them.

It was a joke, @KNOWITALL. I wouldn’t think it would take much to support a corpse for 1000 years. Just, like, a box in the basement.

I’ve never seen such a discussion. It sounds counter-intuitive to me.

I read it as the judicial equivalent of ”...and throw away the key.”

He kept them imprisoned, not hostage. He didn’t tell anyone he had them. He wasn’t holding them in exchange for something. He wasn’t using them to negotiate for anything. They were prisoners.

There are other ways to get out of prison other than parole. Maybe those extra years are just safeguards put in place.