He’s only 23 and life is a looooong time.
Who is 23
I think he is a sociopath, so there is less chance he would off himself.
It could be.
In 1965, Duane Pope, 22, murdered three people during a bank robbery in Big Springs, Neb. He was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life, and he is currently still in prison 56 years later.
But that same year, Robert Massey was sentenced to death for murdering a woman in San Gabriel, Calif. However, after a court struck down the death penalty in 1972, his sentence was commuted to life--and he was out six years later, having served a total of 13 years. Then he promptly went out and committed another murder in the course of a robbery and was again sentenced to death--and this time, the sentence was carried out.
Yeah.
At some point 'life in prison' just isn't much of a deterrent...