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If you died momentarily and is brought back to life, does it make you an entirely new person? This prisoner surely hopes it’s a yes.
A convicted murderer sentenced to life sentence died in his prison cell in 2015 but was revived after doctors restarted his heart five times.
He was hit with severe septic poisoning and fell unconscious before the doctors administered adrenaline and epinephrine through an IV to bring him back to life.
And now he’s filing a legal appeal to say that since he has died before he was resuscitated, he technically fulfilled his life sentence.
But being dead for a brief amount of time doesn’t get you out of jail, and judges said that the 66-year-old criminal will stay in prison till he’s actually dead.
"Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot," Judge Amanda Potterfield wrote.
"We do not believe the legislature intended this provision [ . . .] to set criminal defendants free whenever medical procedures during their incarceration lead to their resuscitation by medical professionals.”
The prisoner had murdered a man in 1996 and was sentenced to life without parole in 1997.
So yes, in case if you were wondering, momentary death doesn’t get you out of a life sentence.
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