People have tried the argument when they were resuscitated. The courts have thrown it out, as the sentence is meant to be their entire lifetime regardless of medical interventions that may artificially extend it. If someone is capable of making the argument, they have not fulfilled their sentence. Also, I think generally if you can be brought back you were not actually dead, you were near death and would have died if not for intervention (one might say only mostly dead and not dead dead).
It would take very poorly written laws that somehow define life to only include a single period of an uninterrupted heartbeat to allow it to work.
If and when somebody is resurrected after three days, the courts might be forced to reconsider.
I think there are few historical examples where someone was hanged and pronounced dead but then woke up and were pardoned.
There is one from Edinburgh, A woman who was hung but survived.
But we are talking about sentenced to prison, not sentenced to death.
At least in Canada a “life” sentence is just a really long amount of time. I think 21 years?
EDIT: Looked into it. It’s indefinite, only getting a chance to appeal after 25 years.
“life sentence in prison” means he is sentenced for life, so if he gets alive again he would be still with that sentence that is for life. It’s not a “sentence until death”.
I think so. I read about a guy who stayed dead for couple of years for tax reasons.
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This is what Jon Snow did. Obviously real life works the same way
I don’t think that the law is ready to deal with zombies and other non realistic scenario
I mean… You can be clinically dead and then revived with cpr and a defibrillator, so not entirely unrealistic.
I believe they come back to “life in prison” .
If he dies for long enough to complete all the paper work and produce death certeficate then he would be free
Unfortunately the person would not have any papers after, and trying to get papers may send them back to prison
This is actually fucking scary.
They also took issue with him being brought back to life as he’d signed a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order years earlier, The Des Moines Register reported at the time.
This sets the precedent that the convict is no longer in possession of their own body and life.
“Death is no escape. You will suffer as long as we want you to.”
Welcome to the birth of Hell.
I mean…;
Benjamin Schreiber was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1996, after clubbing a man to death with the handle of a pickaxe and leaving his body outside a trailer. Schreiber had conspired with the man’s girlfriend to murder him.
He took away someone else’s body and life first.
Thats the problem with just laws and rights. They have to apply to everyone, even those we feel don’t deserve it, otherwise they ain’t just.
Laws and rights did apply to him.
Except they didn’t if he signed a “do not resuscitate” and they did it anyways.
no. they arent legally dead until they are
