Should of been death really, It should be treason to tamper with the criminal justice system in a manner that puts innocent people in prison.
How barbaric of you.
While it's reasonable to ask whether the death penalty is appropriate even in cases such as treason, there's a fair case to be made that this level of subversion of the legal system is treason.
Isn't it also clear that the legal system is pretty broken in this case?
Edit: I could be wrong, only judging from 2 articles about this case.
What is barbaric is putting people in cages without any reason to do so. Elected officials should be held to a higher standard and when they do wrong the consequences of those actions should be much higher. IE: Death.
Yep, both things are barbaric. Murdering people because they've done something wrong is just silly, though.
Sell 4000 pounds of weed, get life without parole. Sell 4000 lives, get 28 years, but really you will be out in 5 or 7.
There is no parole in the federal prison system but there is "Good conduct time." Unless he has a successful appeal or he dies first, he will serve at least 24 years and 4 months.