LENGTHY PRISON SENTENCES
This article doesn’t included sentences where the criminal is told that
he or she will be sentenced to prison for the rest of the criminal’s life. This
article is ABOUT instances where criminals have
been sentenced to jail terms in excess of
a human’s lifetime.
If you click your
mouse on words that are ubnderlined, you will get more information.
Abdullah Iyad Barghouti
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This killer i traveled to the West
Bank where he joined the Hamas paramilitary group. He is considered by the Israeli News as Hamas'
"engineer" and planned and built weapons for numerous attacks
against Israeli civilians. Among the attacks he was involved in was the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing, the double suicide bombing in
the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall, the Café Moment bombing, the 2002
Rishon LeZion bombing, the Hebrew
University bombing, the Allenby
Street bus bombing, the Pi
Glilot bombing attempt, and an attack on railway tracks in Lod in
which he personally laid the explosive charge. A total of 66 Israelis were
killed and 500 injured in attacks that Barghouti was involved in.
Israel doesn’t have the death
penalty on its books since they executed a Nazi war criminal in the last
century. so criminals who murder people
are sent to prison instead.
Barghouti was arrested by the
Israeli Shin Bet security service in March
2003. An Israeli military court sentenced him to 67 life terms plus 5,200 years
in prison. The sentence was the longest sentence given out in Israel's history.
Barghouti is incarcerated at Gilboa Prison near Beit She'an. He is held in solitary
confinement and is not allowed any family visits.
Gary
Leon Ridgway
This American serial killer was born on February 18th,
1949, and was referred to as the Green River Killer. Ridgway's IQ was
recorded as being in the low eighties. He
was initially convicted of 48 separate murders. As part of his plea bargain, another conviction was added, bringing the
total number of convictions to 49, making him the most prolific serial killer
in United States history.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 teenage girls and women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. In court statements, he later
reported that he had killed so many that he lost count. A majority of the
murders occurred between 1982 and 1984. The victims were believed to be either
sex workers or runaways picked up along Pacific
Highway South, whom he strangled. Most of their bodies were dumped
in wooded areas around the Green
River, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and other "dump sites"
within South King County. There were also two confirmed and another two
suspected victims found in the Portland Oregon area. The bodies were often
left in clusters, sometimes posed, usually nude. He would sometimes return to
the victims' bodies and have sexual intercourse with them. Ridgway later explained that he
did not find necrophilia more sexually satisfying, but having sex with the
deceased reduced his need to obtain a living victim and thus limited his
exposure to being caught.
Ridgway was arrested on suspicion
of murdering four women nearly 20 years earlier after first being identified as
a potential suspect, when DNA evidence
conclusively linked semen left in the victims to the saliva swab taken by the
police. The four victims named in the original indictment were Marcia Chapman, Opal
Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and Carol Ann Christensen. Three more victims—Wendy
Coffield, Debra Bonner, and Debra Estes—were added to the indictment after a
forensic scientist identified microscopic spray paint spheres as a
specific brand and composition of paint used at the Kenworth factory during the
specific time frame when these victims were killed.
On December 18th,
2003, King
County Superior Court Judge Richard Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences with no possibility of parole and one life sentence, to be
served consecutively. He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for tampering
with evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48
life sentences.
Ridgway was placed in solitary
confinement at Washington
State Penitentiary in Walla
Walla in
January 2004. On May 14, 2015, he was transferred to a high-security
federal prison in Florence east of Cañon
City, Colorado. In September 2015, after a public outcry and discussions
with Governor Jay Inslee, Corrections Secretary Bernie
Warner announced that Ridgway would be transferred back to Washington to be
"easily accessible" for open murder investigations. Ridgway was
returned by chartered plane to Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla
from the High Security Federal Prison in Florence, Colorado, on October 24, 2015.
Martin John Bryan
This mass killer was born on 7 May
1967 at the Queen Alexandria Hospital in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was the first son born
to Maurice and Carleen Bryant. Although the family home was in Lenah
Valley, Tasmania, Bryant spent some of his childhood at their beach home in
Carnarvon Bay, Tasmania. In a 2011 interview, his mother recalls that while he
was very young, she would often find Martin's toys broken, and said he was an
"annoying" and "different" child. A psychologist's view was
that he would never hold down a job, as he would aggravate people to such an
extent that he would always be in trouble.
Other cases that locals can recall
include that he had pulled the snorkel from another boy while diving and
had once cut down trees on a neighbour's property. He was described by teachers
as being distant from reality and unemotional. At school he was a disruptive
and sometimes violent child who suffered severe bullying by other children. After he
was suspended from New Town Primary School in 1977, psychological assessments
of Bryant noted his torturing of animals. He returned to school the following
year with improved behaviour however, he persisted in teasing younger children.
He was transferred to a special education unit at New
Town High School in 1980, where he deteriorated both academically and in
behaviour throughout his remaining school year.
Descriptions of Bryant's behaviour
as an adolescent show that he continued to be disturbed that outlined the
possibility of an intellectual
disability. He was revealed to be borderline mentally disabled, with
an I.Q. of 66, equivalent to the
mind of an 11-year-old. Further testing following his arrest indicated a verbal
I.Q. of 64 and non-verbal reasoning and cognitive functioning of 68, giving a
full-scale I.Q. of 66.
Bryant has provided conflicting
and confused accounts of what led him to kill 35 people at the Port Arthur site
on the 28th in April 1996. It
appears that it could be his desire for attention, as he allegedly told a
next-door neighbour, "I'll do something that will make everyone remember
me".
His first victims, David and
Noelene (Sally) Martin, owned the bed and breakfast guest house called
Seascape. The Martins had bought the bed and breakfast that Bryant's father had
wanted to buy, and his father had complained to him on numerous occasions of
the damage done to Bryant's family because of that purchase.[11] Bryant apparently believed
the Martins had deliberately bought the property to hurt his family and blamed
the Martins for the depression that led to his father's death He fatally
shot them in that guest house before travelling to the Port Arthur ruins.
Bryant entered The Broad Arrow Café on the historical site's grounds, carrying
a large blue duffel bag.
Once he finished eating, Bryant
moved toward the back of the café and set a video camera on a vacant table. He
took out a Colt AR-15 SP1 Carbine (semi-automatic
rifle) and, firing from the hip, began shooting patrons and staff. Within 15
seconds, he had fired 17 shots, killing 12 people and wounding 10. Bryant then walked
to the other side of the shop and fired 12 more times, killing another eight
people while wounding two. He then changed magazines before fleeing, shooting
at people in the car park and from his yellow Volvo 244 car as he drove away; four
were killed and an additional six were injured. Bryant drove 300 metres down the
road, to where a woman and her two children were walking. He stopped and fired
two shots, killing the woman and the child she was carrying. The older child
fled, but Bryant followed her and killed her with a single shot.
He then stole a gold BMW by
killing all four of its occupants. A short distance down the road, he stopped
beside a couple in a white Toyota and, drawing his weapon, ordered the male
occupant into the boot of the BMW. After shutting the boot, he fired two shots
into the windscreen of the Toyota, killing the female driver.
He returned to the guesthouse, set
the stolen car alight and took his hostage inside with the Martins' corpses.
The police soon arrived and tried to negotiate with Bryant for many hours
before the battery in the phone he was using died, ending communication. Bryant's
only demand was to be transported in an army helicopter to an airport. Sometime
during the negotiations, Bryant killed his hostage.
The next morning, 18 hours later,
Bryant set fire to the guesthouse and attempted to escape in the
confusion. Suffering burns to his back and buttocks, he was captured and
taken to Royal
Hobart Hospital, where he was treated and kept under heavy guard.
Bryant was judged fit to stand
trial, and his trial was scheduled to begin on the 7th of November
1996. Bryant initially pleaded not guilty, but was persuaded by his court-appointed lawyer and the prosecution to plead
guilty to all charges.
Two weeks later, Hobart Supreme
Court Judge William
Cox gave
Bryant 35 life sentences, plus 1,035 years in prison, without the possibility
of parole, all of which is to be served concurrently; this life sentence being
applied is obviously for the term of
his] natural life
For the first eight months of his
imprisonment, he was held in a purposely-built special suicide-prevention cell in that amounts a almost a complete solitary
confinement cell. He remained in protective custody for his own
safety until he was moved to a newly built detention centre 10 years after his
conviction.
On the 13th of November 2006, Bryant was
moved into Hobart's Wilfred Lopes Centre that is a secure mental health unit
run by the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services. The 35-bed unit
for inmates with serious mental illness is staffed with doctors, nurses and
other support workers. Inmates are not locked down, and can come and go from
their cells. Exterior security at the facility is provided by a three-wall
perimeter patrolled by private contract guards. Bryant attempted suicide on the
25th of March 2007 by slashing his wrist with a razor blade. Two
days later, he cut his throat with another razor blade and was hospitalized
briefly. As of 2015, Bryant is housed in the maximum-security Risdon Prison
near Hobart.
Charles Scott Robinson
A judge who said he was weary of criminals serving only a
portion of their time, decided to sentence a man convicted of raping six
children to many years in prison.
The jury that convicted Charles Scott Robinson on December 14th
and had recommended 5,000 years in prison for each of the six counts against
him. The jurors wanted Robinson behind bars for good.
Robinson's previous convictions were for nonviolent crimes
of burglary, attempted burglary, concealing stolen property and possession of a
stolen vehicle.
District Judge Dan Owens chose to order the six sentences to
be consecutively instead of concurrently, meaning that the 30-year-old Robinson
probably couldn't be paroled until he is at least 108 years old. Judge Owens
told Robinson”, I think I can assure you
that you will spend the rest of your natural life in the confines of the
Department of Corrections."
Allan Wayne
McLaurin
In 1994, this man was
sentenced to the greatest
amount of jail time given as a result of an appeal. Found guilty of crimes
ranging from rape of an elderly woman in Tulsa County, to larceny, robbery and
kidnapping, he was originally sentenced to 2,250 years. He appealed, was
reconvicted, re-sentenced and received an additional jail term of 9,500 years,
later reduced to 900 years. With that added to his 2,250 years, his final
sentence was 11,750 years in prison.
Many years ago, I was asked by a
lawyer in Canada to interview his client who was charged with raping an elderly
woman. He was later convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison.
In Guatemala, former six
soldiers were convicted and sentenced for their roles in the 1982 Dos Erres village massacre.
In the early morning
and afternoon of the month of December, the Kaibiles who were soldiers of the
elite special forces commandos of the Guatemalan
Army
separated out the children, and began killing them. They also raped women and
girls, and ripped the fetuses out of pregnant women. They bashed the smallest
children's heads against walls and trees, and killed the older ones with hammer
blows to the head. A baby was the first to be killed, by dropping the baby live
into a deep 4 meter well, along with the rest of the bodies then after. Then
the commandos interrogated the men and women one by one, raped some of the
women again, then shot or bashed them with the hammer, and dumped them in the
well. The massacre continued throughout 7
December. On the morning of 8 December, as the Kaibiles were preparing to
leave, another 15 persons, among them children, arrived in the hamlet. With the
well already full, they took the newcomers to a location half an hour away,
then shot all but two of them. They kept two teenage girls for the next few
days, raping them repeatedly and finally strangling them. Only one person
survived this massacre who was a small child who managed to escape. Here are the
sentences of the convicted soldiers;
Daniel Martínez Martínez 6,060 years
Reyes Collin Gualip 6,060 years
Manuel Pop 6,060 years
Pedro Pimentel Ríos 6060 years
Henri Parot 4,797 years
Inés del Río Prada 3,828 years
The "prize" for
the stupidest proposed longest jail term
in history goes to the prosecutor in Palma, Majorca who recommended that Gabriel
Gandos, a letter carrier serve 384,912 years of imprisonment for failing
to deliver 42,768 letters. The letter carrier was actually sentenced to only to
14 years and 2 months of imprisonment.
In Canada, the penalty for
first degree murder is automatically a minimum of 25 years in prison. It doesn’t
mean that after a murderer has served 25 ears in prison, he or she is
automatically set free. If the National Parole Board of Canada feels that the murderer
is still a danger to society, te prisoner will continue serving his or her sentence. Every two years, the
murder can apply again for parole. Some
murders actually died in prison even though they served the minimum sentence of
25 ears.
In 2011, the Canadian
parliament passed a law that if anyone kills more than one person, they will
serve the 25-yer penalties consecutively. Two men have since been sentenced to
prison consecutively for killing three persons. They were sentenced to prison
for 75 years.
One man pleaded guilty to
killing right men but he was only sentenced to 25 years instead of 2oo years. The
judge took into consideration that he is diabetic and him being 67, he will be eligible
to apply for parole when he is 91 years of age. The judge said that it is
highly likely that he will live that long because he doesn’t believe that if he
is alive when he is 91 years of age, he thinks it is highly unlikely that the
parole Board will release him anyway.
Sentencing a mass murderer
or a serial killer to many years beyond his or her normal life is really a symbolic
act. The intention is that even if the multiple murderer was to be given a
sentence of 25 years, he would still be
ineligible for parole. But sentencing murderers to thousands of years is
ridiculous.
One American killed three
persons. He was sentenced to 3000 years. He appealed the sentence saying that
the sentence was ludicrous. The Court of Appeal agreed. They reduced his
sentence to 1500 years. That was also ridiculous. Sentencing him to prison for 75 years would
also serve the purpose of making sure that he would never walk out of prison if
the parole board has its way.
Sometime in the near
future, I will write and publish articles about each of the murderers that I
wrote about in this article.
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