Does a life sentence end if you briefly die? Inmate says yes, but Iowa court says no

Miami Herald ^ | 11/08/19 | CHACOUR KOOP

[Beagle8U]

I hate to say it but...I think he has a point. Unless he sentenced to multiple life sentences his term ended when he died.

[Billthedrill]

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.

The bad news is that yer cellmate is this guy named Cthulhu.

[Beagle8U]

I think there was old rule for hanging that said if the rope broke it was a act of God and they got set free?

[VanShuyten]

From the article:

“Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot,” a judge ruled.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I remember reading about a guy in California that was sentenced to the Gas Chamber for murder. They carried out the sentence and he survived, not sure what they did then, let him go and changed his sentence to life.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

only if a life sentence means till your dead instead of 30 years.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

What about reincarnation? Multiple life sentences might be applicable then.

What if he arranged for his body to be frozen... and they bring him back 100 years from now?

[Ouderkirk]

A life sentence should be an automatic DNR.

Correct.

[ASA Vet]

Not hang em high, but this "The Good, the Band, and the Ugly " is well worth watching.

[luvbach1]

Near death is not death.

[TigersEye]

He has a point. Well, he did, while dead. Now he doesn't.

He wasn't committed enough to the cause. :)

[Robert DeLong]

They should have not worked so hard to save his life. All would be better off if that had been the case.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Defining “death” as when your heart stops beating means we all die and come back to life every second of our lives.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Part of his argument was that he had signed a “do not resuscitate” order that they ignored.

[StAnDeliver]

Return him to the physical state he is complaining about, and then let him file the appeal.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does he have the same life signs as a partial birth abortion in Virginia?

Why decree that the former must live while the latter must die?

-PJ

[Robert DeLong]

Then they should have followed his request I guess, but that should still not make his claim valid, in my opinion. 8>)

[oldvirginian]

I can remember a man being sentenced to”Death and One Dark Day” when I was a kid here in Virginia.
That meant the convict had to die in prison and spend one day in the coroners cabinet.

IIRC it was a murder for hire thing that got him that sentence.
The man who paid for his wife’s murder got the chair.

[Don W]

Apparently he did have a DNR, but the medical staff ignored it. Just like they did with my dad.

They were less successful with dad. He’s still dead...

[adorno]

Does a life sentence end if you briefly die?

There's an idea for men (or women) stuck in a bad marriage. Briefly die and the marriage vows are no longer valid. "Till death do us part", would have to be changed to, "till rigor-mortis" has been ongoing for a week or more.