If I go to America again, I will have to be very careful not to rape or kill anyone, because they have recently shown themselves to be extremely hard on people found guilty of such crimes.

I would imagine 438 years is enough to put anyone off killing someone to death via homocide. But why 438 years exactly?

After about 100 years, his cell is going to smell worse than the Post Office on pension day, which is a little harsh on his cell-mate (and the cleaners). Do not get me wrong, I am all for proper sentences (except with grammar’n'that), but I do not see the point in putting someone in prison for 438 years. Even if he takes a daily multivitamin and cuts down on the fags, he is still unlikely to get passed two hundred years of age.

I do however think it would be quite funny if by some freak of nature he lived to be 500 years old. How fucked off would the judge be?

I guess the US of A does not suffer with the same levels of prison over crowding that we do. Over here we do the exact opposite, the judge picks a sentence that society thinks is about appropriate, doubles it, divides it by five, adds a few months and then takes away the first number that they thought of.  I would like to see them adopt a more American approach.

“You are hereby found guilty of killing that prostitute to death and that, and I hereby sentence you to a gazillion million years in prison.” 

That would be a proper deterrent and would almost certainly put me off killing any more prostitutes.

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