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minus-squareTheEntity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
minus-squareVittelius@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago20 years is the maximum sentence in France
minus-squarecrapwittyname@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIf absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
minus-squareSynapse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
minus-squareSchmuppes@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoThe French legal system probably doesn’t stack individual sentences and go “I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison” like they do in the US.
I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
20 years is the maximum sentence in France
If absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
It depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
The French legal system probably doesn’t stack individual sentences and go “I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison” like they do in the US.