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Pablo Lucio Vasquez, the Texas Vampire, was executed for killing a 12!earold bo! and according to his own account drinking the child"s blood he had h ad a message for relati#es of his #ictim$ %&ou got !our 'ustice right here(% )t was, perhaps, a reminder that 'ustice can be harsh, regardless r egardless of whether or not !ou think it fair( *nd sometimes 'ustice can be #er! harsh indeed, e#en for those who are not executed( +hile some prison sentences pro#oke cries of horror that a criminal will be out of 'ail wa! too soon, in a few cases, it"s quite the opposite( Chamoy Thipyaso, Thailand - 141,078 years The longest prison sentence handed down b! a court is thought to be that recei#ed b! hamo! Thip!aso of Thailand, who in 1-.- was gi#en a 'ail term of 1/1,0. !ears( The wife of a senior Thai air force officer, Thip!aso had been in#ol#ed in a p!ramid scheme that defrauded 1,231 people out of a total of about 42 million( 5i#en that some of her #ictims had allegedl! been members of the Thai ro!al household, she probabl! wasn"t expecting lenienc!( Thip!aso, howe#er, was luck! in one respect because b ecause in 1-.- Thai law decreed that regardless of the sentence gi#en, the maximum time an!one could actuall! spend behind bars for fraud was 20 !ears( Otman el-Gnaoui, Spain - 42,924 years * similar technicalit! applied to terrorist 6tman el5naoui, el5naoui, who was gi#en a /2,-2/ !ear prison sentence b! a 7panish court for mass murder due to his part in the 200/ 8adrid train bombings( 9is accomplice :amal ;ougam got go t /2,-22 !ears for in#ol#ement in the bombings that claimed 1-1 li#es( *s in Thailand, howe#er, 7panish law limits the time that that can actuall! be spent in 'ail, so in practice the longest either man will remain in prison is /0 !ears(
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Charles Scott o!inson, "S - #0,000 years +hen it comes to sentences where there is no hope of an!thing an!thing like a /0!ear limit on time reall! ser#ed, the longest might be that of 6klahoma child rapist harles 7cott istrict :udge >an 6wens decided he was wear! of criminals ser#ing onl! a portion of their time( 7o to guarantee that epartment of orrections,% the 'udge informed
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7ta!ing in the incarcerationhapp! state of 6klahoma, a contender for the most catastrophic appeal in 'udicial histor! might be that launched b! rapist >arron ?ennalford *nderson( *fter being con#icted of the robber!, kidnap and rape of an elderl! woman in 1--3, *nderson appealed, perhaps hoping to ha#e a centur! or two knocked off his original 2,200!ear sentence(
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)t went well for him at first( 9e won a new trial( That, T hat, howe#er, also ended in con#iction( *nd this time the 'ur! decided his sentence should shoul d be 11,2=0 !ears thus extending his 'ail term b! -,0=0 !ears( *nderson is due for release on *ugust 1 -/( +hich gi#es him plent! of time to contemplate the fact his efforts ha#e secured him a 5uinness 5u inness +orld udle! +a!ne @!zer of Tuscaloosa got 10,000 !ears for killing his wife( >esbribed as a %born killer% b! one prosecutor, pros ecutor, @!zer was con#icted of killing his estranged wife, >iane @!zer, his motherinlaw, Aunice ?arringer, and istrict :udge >an 6wens decided he was wear! of criminals ser#ing onl! a portion of their time( 7o to guarantee that
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an! of the =,000!ear sentences, :udge 6wens ordered them to be ser#ed consecuti#el! rather than concurrentl! landing the child rapist with a 30,000!ear 'ail term( %) think ) can assure that !ou will spend the rest re st of !our natural life in the confines of the >epartment of orrections,% the 'udge informed
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7ta!ing in the incarcerationhapp! state of 6klahoma, a contender for the most catastrophic appeal in 'udicial histor! might be that launched b! rapist >arron ?ennalford *nderson( *fter being con#icted of the robber!, kidnap and rape of an elderl! woman in 1--3, *nderson appealed, perhaps hoping to ha#e a centur! or two knocked off his original 2,200!ear sentence( )t went well for him at first( 9e won a new trial( That, T hat, howe#er, also ended in con#iction( *nd this time the 'ur! decided his sentence should shoul d be 11,2=0 !ears thus extending his 'ail term b! -,0=0 !ears( *nderson is due for release on *ugust 1 -/( +hich gi#es him plent! of time to contemplate the fact his efforts ha#e secured him a 5uinness 5u inness +orld
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+hen it came to appeals, *nderson"s accomplice *llan 8cLaurin was luckier( 9e got =00 !ears lopped off his sentence( *lthough since the original 'ail term was 21,2=0 !ears, he wasn"t that luck!( $udley )ayne *y+er, "S - 10,000 years To find *merica"s longest sentence for a single count, !ou ha#e to mo#e to *labama, where %9alloween murderer% >udle! +a!ne @!zer of Tuscaloosa got 10,000 !ears for killing his wife( >esbribed as a %born killer% b! one prosecutor, pros ecutor, @!zer was con#icted of killing his estranged wife, >iane @!zer, his motherinlaw, Aunice ?arringer, and
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)n 1--2 8r +oodfox"s con#iction was quashed on the grounds grou nds that he had not had effecti#e assistance of counsel, but he was con#icted con# icted at a second trial in 1--.( That con#iction was itself o#erturned in 2013 because of discrimination in the selection of the grand 'ur! foreman( 9is release came after the state of Louisiana agreed agr eed to drop its threat to sub'ect him to a third trial in return for him pleading no contest to lesser charges of manslaughter and aggra#ated burglar!( 8r +oodfox emphasised that his no contest plea was not an admission of guilt, issuing a statement explaining$ %*lthough ) was looking forward to pro#ing m! innocence at a new trial, concerns about m! health and m! age ha#e caused me to resol#e this case now and obtain m! release(% )n 201/, he told a blogger what he was suffering in solitar!$ %)"m afraid )"m going to turn into a bab! and curl up in a foetal position and la! there like that da! after da! for the rest of m! life( )"m afraid )"m going to attack m! own bod!, ma!be cut off m! balls and throw them through the bars the wa! )"#e seen others do when the! couldn"t take an! more(% aul Geidel .unior, "S - /8 years and 24( days *s for the longest time an!one has spent in 'ail before being being released to tell the tale instead of d!ing of old age behind bars, that dubious d ubious honour falls to Paul 5eidel :unior( )n 1-11 5eidel was a 1!earold bellhop working in a Dew &ork hotel when he sneaked into the room of guest +illiam 9 :ackson( :ac kson( The wealth! 3!earold woke up and in the ensuing struggle, 5eidel accidentall! killed him b! suffocating him with a rag filled with chloroform( 5eidel"s crime earned him onl! a few dollars( 9e was arrested two da!s later, before being con#icted of seconddegree murder and sent to prison in 1-11 for 20 !ears to life( * total of . !ears and 2/= da!s later, 5eidel, now aged ., was was released( ?! a margin of a few months, he had beaten the record :ohnson Van>!ke 5rigsb!, who had ser#ed . !ears and three months b! the time he left )ndiana 7tate Prison in 1-(
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5eidel, who had endured bouts of insanit! inside, had been granted parole in 1-/, but ha#ing been in prison all his adult life and fearing how he would cope on the outside, he chose to sta! in 'ail for a further six !ears( 9e en'o!ed se#en !ears of freedom before d!ing d!i ng in a nursing home, aged -3(
