Reply #20: nope,The 55 is a mandatory minimum, 63 is his maximum

[pschoeb]

He would have been better off to have just shot his wife in the head while she was sleeping and then dumped her in the trash, for this he would have got 6 years as a minimum and life as max. per this recent utah case.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158747,00.html

Unintended consequence of such crap as this, is that drug dealers will probably just shoot cops, if they think they can get away, as it won't make their sentence much worse.