Mostly dead is not dead
And what about multiple life sentences? You’d think they’d have to specify that.
If he is undead, we should drive a stake through his heart.
“I should be freed from prison, your Honor ... because I’m now dead. Dead tired, that is.”
A life sentence should be an automatic DNR.
That law is going to need some tweaking to avoid this challenge in the future. There are numerous methods to revive somebody these days that were never available before.
Hmm. My wholly personal, unqualified non medical and nonlegal opinion says yes, A life sentence ends if you briefly die.
Nothing in the original sentence defines how long you must be dead.
If he is dead he should be buried or cremated.
“I met one brother. His name was J-Bone. Motherf........ could lift weights. He was in charge. Muscles every-mother.......’-where. He was doing a sentence… triple life. How in the .... do you do triple life? I mean. That mean if he die and come back… he got to go to the penitentiary. Right? They’ll say, “F... kindergarten. Get your little ass back in the penitentiary. Mother...... You know what you did last time you was here.””
-Richard Pryor
Does he have a life now? If so, he is still serving his life sentence. Case closed.
According to the western movies there may have been a reason why they always sentenced them to “Death by hanging UNTIL DEAD”. Wonder how many lived through it? There were a couple westerns involving this very situation.
It is kinda weird. In one moral sense we were required to try to rectify his medical situation, and that even included ressusitation to save his life. But that was, apparently, just so we could after all execute him.
Did we have to save his life, in as much his sentence was “death” anyway?
Did we save his life so that he could not deny us the execution sentence we gave him?
I am morally perplexed on this case.
Doesn’t hurt to try. All they can do is say “No”. After all you’re already in prison for life.
I give him an A for creativity.
Legally dead is the day the death certificate shows up which can take weeks.
Point a gun at his heart. Ask him, do you want out of prison?
Body functions may cease but you aren’t dead until brain activity stops. Am I doctor? Nope.
But that’s my 2 cents.
He didn’t die. He was briefly nonfunctional.
Interesting legal question ping.