History Main / LongerThanLifeSentence

* ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'': As punishment for helping the devil Giff try to take over the world, Olteca is appropriately given a 666-year prison sentence.

* ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' has Aira's mother Kanae Kanzaki, who due to various circumstances has been sentenced to 862 years in prison. One of Aria's main motivations is clearing her mother's name since she's innocent.

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': Leon Garcia de Asturias has been convicted to about a thousand years in prison for a mass murder, but has his sentence reduced by several years every time TheChurch [[BoxedCrook makes use of his combat skills]]. At the time of the main plot, he still faces many centuries of incarceration, however.

* In ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', although we are not told exactly how long Beyond Birthday's sentence was, it can be reasonably assumed that since he's been convicted in the state of California for three murders (although the novel hints that those are just the three we know about), plus other serious crimes (grand theft auto, assaulting a police officer, [[spoiler: impersonating law enforcement]] and [[WhiteCollarCrime fraud]]), he was likely serving one of these. [[note]] It's also possible that he was on Death Row; California ''does'' have capital punishment. So if he ''wasn't'' facing a sentence like this, he was almost certainly awaiting execution. [[/note]] [[spoiler: Not that it ''really'' matters, however, since Kira got him.]]

** Just before the release of the game, several Xbox 360 players managed to download an almost complete pirate of the game. Microsoft responded by banning the consoles with illegal copies from Xbox Live until December 31st, 9999.

* Sholam Weiss got sentenced by the federal government to 845 years ''in absentia'' for fraud, the largest sentence ever given for a white collar crime, and was initially eligible for release on November 23, 2754. He served 20 years in prison before being pardoned by Donald Trump in 2021.

In real life though, there's a [[JustifiedTrope fully practical reason]]. No sentence for a ''single'' crime can be more than 'one' life sentence or around 99 years (for a fixed-length sentence) in general, but a person convicted of multiple crimes at once can easily receive triple-digit sentences or multiple life sentences if they run consecutively. This is because some of the convictions may be legitimately overturned later (such as if a killer was [[NotMeThisTime wrongly accused of killing a second person]], causing the second killer to get away). For example, a person convicted of two murders may be given two life sentences, or a 198-year sentence, or "one life sentence plus 99 years". In any of these cases, an overturned conviction must cut the sentence in half, allowing the authorities to look for the second killer, but this still leaves the person with a life sentence for the other murder.

* James Eagan Holmes, who shot and killed 12 people and wounded 70 others at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a screening of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', was sentenced to [[http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/crime/3825768-colorado-movie-gunman-james-holmes-sentenced-12-life-sentences-and-3318-years 12 life sentences plus 3,318 years]].

* Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre, received a sentence of 35 consecutive life terms plus 1,035 years (life sentences for each person he killed, plus the combined normal maximum sentences for the murders, attempted murders, and grievous bodily harm charges he accumulated during the shooting spree).

* ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'':"Arrow of Time" reveals that Buck Winters from "Spree" received a 250-year sentence for his crimes in that episode. (And then he breaks out of prison and kills a man, implying that he'll end up getting even more time tacked onto his sentence.)

* Invoked in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". After Kirk is caught inside a US Air Force base in the 1960s, he is [[TimeTravelersAreSpies interrogated]] and threatened with being locked up for two hundred years, which he ruefully declares would be [[TheSlowPath "just about right"]].
* A flashback in ''Series/Supergirl2015'' shows ComicBook/LexLuthor being sentenced to 31 consecutive life sentences. Before the judge can bang her gavel, however, she starts coughing. Luthor quips, "Maybe we should make it 32?" - [[KickTheDog having poisoned her, the jury and the prosecutors.]]

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols Terry Nichols]], the accomplice of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy [=McVeigh=], was sentenced to 161 life sentences, plus an additional 9300 years, without parole.

In real life though, there's a [[JustifiedTrope fully practical reason]]. No sentence for a ''single'' crime can be more than 'one' life sentence or around 99 years (for a fixed-length sentence) in general, but a person convicted of multiple crimes at once can easily receive triple-digit sentences or multiple life sentences if they run consecutively. This is because some of the convictions may be legitimately overturned later (such as if a killer was [[NotMeThisTime wrongly accused of killing a second person]], causing the second killer to get away). For example, a person convicted of two murders may be given two life sentences, or a 198-year sentence, or "one life sentence plus 99 years". In any of these cases, an overturned conviction must cut the sentence in half, but this will still leave the person with a life sentence for the other murder.

* In 1983, serial rapist [[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19830923&id=fu8gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AHMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2805,4391501 Dr. Edward Franklin Jackson Jr.]] was sentenced in Ohio to 282 to 985 years.[[note]]

* In Music/JohnnyCash 's ''Cocaine Blues'' Willy Lee ended up sentenced, for murdering his girlfriend, to:

While in general no real-life sentence for a ''single'' crime can exceed 'one' life sentence or around 99 years for a fixed-length sentence, a person who has been convicted of multiple crimes at once can easily receive triple-digit sentences or multiple life sentences if the sentences for each crime run consecutively.
This has a fully practical effect: there's always the consideration that some but not all of the convictions may be legitimately overturned on appeal (such as if a killer was [[NotMeThisTime wrongly accused of killing a second person]]). For example, a person convicted of two murders may be given two life sentences, or a 198-year sentence, or "one life sentence plus 99 years". In any of the cases, a conviction overturned on appeal will halve the sentence, leaving the person with still a life-length sentence.

This trope can be used by an author to indicate that a criminal is truly hardcore and dangerous or has committed a particularly heinous crime (or crimes), or that a jurisdiction or [[HangingJudge judge]] is ruthless toward criminals or has it out for the one being sentenced. Of course, if the prisoner is [[TheAgeless ageless]] or otherwise LongLived, they may be faced with the daunting prospect of actually serving out the full sentence.

* In the final episode of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', Jimmy [=McGill=] is facing a sentence of life 190 years in federal prison for his part in Heisenberg's operations. He manages to get his sentence reduced to seven years via plea bargain, but changes his mind and accepts culpability for all the crimes he committed while working for Heisenberg, which nets him a sentence of 86 years. He tells Kim there's a chance he could be granted parole for good behavior, but it's pretty clear that he doesn't believe that'll happen and his age means that even if he did manage to win parole, his post-prison life would likely be brief.

* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "The Night Santa Went Crazy" mentions that Santa will be out on good behavior in 700 more years... granted in Santa’s case, he very well could live that long.[[note]]Though there is an alternate version of the song in certain releases where Santa [[BloodierAndGorier certainly doesn't have to worry about that]].[[/note]]

--> '''Amelia''': Mr. Pettigrew, you are currently facing sixteen counts that carry potential life sentences. Are you hoping to plead down to ''one'' life sentence?

** A first case in 2013, when Onur Kopçak, a hacker, was condemned for multiple credit card numbers stealings, each with a separate sentence, which adds up to a total of 199 years, 7 months and 10 days in prison. It doesn't end up here, because in january 2016, in a phising case, he was convicted on several charges of identity theft, website forgery, fraud in accessing an information system, and electronic payment fraud. The added years brought him to a total of 334 years in prison (2013 and 2016 convictions combined), making him the longest-serving hacker in the world.
** In april 2016, Muharrem Büyüktürk, a particular teacher, was sentenced to 508 in prison for "sexual abuse" committed on 10 boys aged 12 to 14 years.

* A hacker was caught modifying save data in ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'' and he was [[https://kotaku.com/5349190/monster-hunter-3-cheater-banned-until-the-year-9999 banned until December 12th 9999]], and that was just the ''first ban''. The next time they violate the terms of service would result in a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lifetime ban]], that is, if the hacker in question could even [[ForegoneConclusion live long enough to violate the terms of service again]]. The whole thing was rendered moot when the game's online services were terminated.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_al-Majid Ali Hassan al-Majid]], nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Chemical Ali"]] for his use of PoisonGas to suppress rebellions, indeed received four death sentences before being hanged on 2010.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra: Shattered Soldier]]'': In the year 2642, Bill Rizer was framed for using a weapon that destroyed 80% of the Earth's population. He was also framed for murdering his partner, Lance Bean. As punishment, Bill was sentenced to 10,000 years in prison. Five years later, aliens attack Earth. Bill is released from prison and fights the alien armada with help from a cyborg named Lucia.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra: Shattered Soldier]]'': In the year 2642, Bill Rizer was framed for using a weapon that destroyed 80% of the Earth's population. He was also framed for murdering his partner, Lance Bean. As punishment, Bill was sentenced to 10,000 years in prison. Five years later, aliens attack Earth. Bill is released from prison and fights the alien armada with help from a cyborg named Lucia.

* In the final episode of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', Jimmy McGill is sentenced to 86 years in federal prison for his part in Heisenberg's operations. He tells Kim there's a chance he could be granted parole for good behavior, and she smiles.

* In the final episode of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', Jimmy McGill is sentenced to 86 years in federal prison for his part in Heisenberg's operations. He tells Kim there's a chance he could be granted parole for good behavior, but it's pretty clear that he doesn't believe that'll happen.

* Serial killer [[https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/steven-ray-thacker-executed-for-killing-laci-dawn-hill-of/article_6cb34345-1352-517c-9f22-ccdab9cfe2b6.html Steven Ray Thacker]] killed a woman in Oklahoma, a man in Missouri, and another man in Tennessee. Each of the crimes was tried separately, earning him death sentences in Tennessee and Oklahoma and a life sentence in Missouri. Ultimately, Oklahoma was the state to carry out the execution, having done so on March 12, 2013.