A Mexican court sentences 10 men to 141 years each in a cartel-run recruitment ranch
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A Mexican court has sentenced 10 men to 141-year terms each for their involvement in a ranch in the western Mexican state of Jalisco that was used by a feared cartel to recruit members, kill and disappear victims.
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    I wonder about these super long prison sentences instead of using life in prison…

    Is it…

    A. A quirk of the justice system?
    B. A way to allow technical leniency, say get a sentence reduced by 20 years, yet with no practical change to the convicted?

    • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      There’s not a lot of detail in the article but it will be that they were each charged with multiple crimes.

      It does mention in the article that three victims were disappeared and murdered so that could be a conviction for kidnapping and one for murder of each of the three victims. That’s six crimes each.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Depending on the justice system you can serve the time for several crimes in parallel. So if you get convicted of five cases each with 20 years, you get 100 years total, but will only spend 20 in prison.