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10-20-Life
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Etymology
From the facts that, under this statute, (during the commission of certain felonies):
Producing a firearm carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence;
Firing a firearm carries a mandatory 20-year prison sentence;
Hitting someone with a firearm carries a mandatory 25-year to life prison sentence.
Proper noun
mul 10-20-Life
en US law 10-20-Life Florida Statute 775.087
en https://books.google.ch/books?id=90ZODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%2210-20-Life%22 Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration Heather Schoenfeld University of Chicago Press Chicago Series in Law and Society 9780226521015 2017030432 1026487787 2018-02-19 175 For example, when I asked the lobbyist for the Florida Sheriffs Association about the FSA's rationale for supporting 10-20-life, he responded that offenders were "getting too much gain-time and ... it just wasn't right."
en Crime Firearms Florida, USA