A Mexican court sentences 10 men to 141 years each for their role in a cartel-run recruitment ranch (apnews.com)
from alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 06:44
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fubo@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 06:52 next collapse

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.

alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 06:59 collapse

Fixed it

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 08:48 collapse

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

stoy@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 07:15 collapse

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?

HalifaxJones@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 07:51 next collapse

Yo no se

nogooduser@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 10:28 next collapse

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.

capuccino@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 15:33 next collapse

the second

Samskara@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 00:48 collapse

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.