Over here in Germany and probably the entire EU punishments don’t stack.
I mean, maybe that’s true. Idk. It’s definitely not how the American system operates. DAs have discretion in bringing charges and pushing for sentences. DA bias is, incidentally, a big reason for the racial/gender split in the prison population. The difference between involuntary manslaughter and capital murder is often what charge the DA chooses to bring.
But the turn of phrase “to throw the book at them” comes from the strategy of prosecuting for every conceivable crime, rather than the singular obvious one.
There is no way in which you can get less time for murder than for attempted murder here.
There are drug crimes that carry a harsher sentence than some murder sentences. The “Three Strikes” rule, notable in California, is a similar source of life sentences for non-violent crimes.
I mean, maybe that’s true. Idk. It’s definitely not how the American system operates. DAs have discretion in bringing charges and pushing for sentences. DA bias is, incidentally, a big reason for the racial/gender split in the prison population. The difference between involuntary manslaughter and capital murder is often what charge the DA chooses to bring.
But the turn of phrase “to throw the book at them” comes from the strategy of prosecuting for every conceivable crime, rather than the singular obvious one.
There are drug crimes that carry a harsher sentence than some murder sentences. The “Three Strikes” rule, notable in California, is a similar source of life sentences for non-violent crimes.