“How in the ___ do you do Triple Life? That mean if he die, and come back, he gotta go to penitentiary.”
“F___ Kindergarten, get your little ass in jail, you know what you did the last time you was here!”
-Richard Pryor
I gather the theory is that all the victims’ families are treated equally. If a serial killer is merely tried for one case, then, even if he’s given a life sentence, the others may feel their loss is meaningless.