Did resuscitation end a life sentence?Sourced
He argued that his life sentence ended when he was revived. The court disagreed.
Iowa prisoner Benjamin Schreiber was resuscitated after severe illness in 2015. He later argued that his life sentence had ended because he had briefly died. An appeals court rejected the claim in 2019: if alive, he remained imprisoned; if dead, his appeal was moot.
A literal reading of 'life' did not win the case.
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