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15 years is the maximum¹ sentence for murder over here. Armed threats are a serious offense but not to this extent.
¹ you may be kept longer for security reasons if a judge deems you to pose a threat after that time.
murder is cheap I guess. meanwhile being a pedophile rapist that can reveal most politicians and CEOs as also pedophile rapists is a ~~death~~ suicide sentence
It's not that "murder is cheap", it's that many countries figured out that holding a person indefinitely in prison doesn't do anything for their rehabilitation, only puts money in the prison's owner's pocket.
The point of most European prisons is to get the prisoner to understand and repent their crime, teach them some useful skills, and send them back to be a productive member of society. The point of US prisons is to just eliminate a person from public life in revenge.
And the legal slavery, dont forget about the legalized slavery. The north may have won our civil war, but the south won the peace.