A Mexican court sentences 10 men to 141 years each for their role in a cartel-run recruitment ranch

c/world · u/alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works · 99 points

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There’s not a lot of detail in the article but it will be that they were each charged with multiple crimes.

It does mention in the article that three victims were disappeared and murdered so that could be a conviction for kidnapping and one for murder of each of the three victims. That’s six crimes each.

u/Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 2 points

Depending on the justice system you can serve the time for several crimes in parallel. So if you get convicted of five cases each with 20 years, you get 100 years total, but will only spend 20 in prison.

u/HalifaxJones@lemmy.world · 2 points

Yo no se

u/capuccino@lemmy.world · 1 points

the second

u/Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 3 points

You just copied the original headline, this isn't on you.

u/alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works · 4 points

Fixed it

u/stoy@lemmy.zip · 11 points

I wonder about these super long prison sentences instead of using life in prison...

Is it...

A. A quirk of the justice system?

B. A way to allow technical leniency, say get a sentence reduced by 20 years, yet with no practical change to the convicted?

u/fubo@lemmy.world · 4 points

And that's our entry for "bad headline of the day", folks.

No, they were not ordered to serve out their sentence *in* a cartel-run ranch.

They were sentenced *for* their participation in running the ranch.