What was Lee Everett's sentence?
Was he convicted of murder or manslaughter and was he on his way to death row or just normal prison,i don't think the game ever specify's although i could be wrong on that.
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That guy in Norway killed about 80 people and is still alive and well.
Norway has no death sentence at all, the US do. That's a whole other thing, he might or might not have gotten the death sentence.
He probably got 15 years to life in prison.
He could have gotten anything from Life with parole after min 30 years over Life without parole up to the death penalty.
I doubt killing your wife's spouse in the heat of finding them in your bedroom would give him the death penalty in Georgia, so most likely he got Life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_punishments_for_murder_in_the_United_States#Georgia
No, just the state senator, not the son of him.
Really? Damn, Russian interpreters translated that he murdered the son of a Senator.
I thought there were no official translations into other languages?.. Interesting.
So yea, his life was pretty much over regardless of the specific circumstances.
You right. But the must popular translation of the game on Russian was maded by Tolma4 team, and they have translated that Lee had murdered the son of a senator.
It's better than the 20 year sentences they give in France.
Why? In the US, you get life sentence and never you never get out again. In France you are just there for 20 years.
In Russia, Lee (if account his crime as murder in affective state) probably could have ended with 3 years (maximum) of freedom limitation or jail (for judge to decide). With the right to get a release after half of the term. We here don't care for human lifes :-|.
Not all murders are a life sentence. 25 is the fewest you can get in the US for 1st/2nd degree murder. In France 20 is the most you can get. I prefer murderers being locked away.
That never happens without one of them having psychological issues. If this happens I don't want the murderer to get the death sentence. I want him to get proper help.
Lee wanted to kill the senator. It was in the heat of the moment, but he did it, and it was wrong. He knew about the affair. So it could easily be understood as murder by the law.
Falls under second degree murder.
I am just saying it wasn't an accident.
According to Lee it was.
Yeah, I did not formulate that correctly. I meant, it could be avoided, by speaking to his wife and saying he knew about the affair.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Something to also keep in mind is that just because someone gets a life sentence in the U.S., doesn't mean they actually serve it. Standard thinking being that it just isn't worth it to continue keeping some guy in his 60's - 70's behind bars (particularly with the overcrowding in U.S. Prisons). To an extent, it's why the majority of death penalty sentences become life sentences - it's more expensive to execute a guy (what with all the appeals, etc.).
I prefer a system that works. France has both a lower recidivism rate and murder rate than the U.S. Insofar as actually mitigating crime goes, the U.S. system sucks pretty hard.
If i remember correctly, Lee said he came back to his house after canceling class and his wife was sleeping with the senator.
Is this during his conversation with the creep?
Here's the whole conversation (from memory):
Lee: "Well... not everyone thinks I'm so trustworthy."
Carley: "Because of your past? Does anyone else know?"
Lee: "Larry knows."
Carley: "Great, that can't be easy."
Lee: "Clementine... might know. She was there when we were talking in the drugstore and asked me about it. I lied to her but..."
Carley: "What exactly did happen with the senator?"
Lee: "It was an accident... I mean, I pretty much knew about the affair."
If that statement of Lee is true it would mean maybe he tried to beat him up, hurt him or toss him out of the window etc and he died as a result of that.
that would most likely have been considered voluntary manslaughter if the jury+judge believed him. So either way it's either (second degree) murder or voluntary manslaughter conviction.
I'd imagine defense of provocation would work nicely in this case, assuming Lee played his cards right. Although, as stated by the game, Lee got a life sentence.
"This is your parent's store; folks around town know the owner's son got himself a life sentence..."