Re: 40,000-year sentences largely symbolic, says legal expert

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:59:00 +0000, Peter Duncanson
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:48:15 +0100, Archie Valparaiso
<archievalparaiso@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:52:36 +0000, Vinny Burgoo <hlunnh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7070827.stm>

Four men were found guilty of planning and carrying out the
attacks and given 30 years for each of the 191 people killed and
18 years for each of the 1,841 injured.

The BBC's Pascale Harter in Madrid says the terms were largely
symbolic as under Spanish law the maximum term that can be
served is 40 years.

That's a very large "largely", in English usage. 99.9%?

And a wonky maximum, even. It's actually 30 years.

Does Spanish law have the distinction between consecutive and
concurrent sentences that English, etc. law has?

I get the impression that English courts tend to impose
concurrent sentences.

The thought of a Museum Prison in which a deceased prisoner is
incarcerated until the completion of thousands of years of
consecutive sentences does have an appeal.

If the entire mind of the miscreant could be captured in
cyber-reality, it could be kept "alive" long enough to suffer through
all the sentences. I suppose you could create 191 instances of it, and
finish all the sentences simultaneously, but there would be a
cumulative agony missing. Maybe if each of the victims could be
provided a copy of the mind to torture at will...
--
John
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