US SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/03/22/968720-sun.html

eg. Oct. 1, 1997: Sixteen-year-old Luke Woodham of Pearl, Mississippi, fatally shot two students to death and wounded seven others after stabbing his mother to death. He was sentenced the following year to three life sentences plus 140 years.

Feb. 19, 1997: A 16-year-old boy took a shotgun and a bag of shells to school in Bethel, Alaska, and killed the principal and a student and injured two others. Evan Ramsey is serving a 210-year sentence.

May 21, 1998: Two teenagers were killed and more than 20 people hurt when a teenage boy opened fire at a high school in Springfield, Oregon, after killing his parents. Kip Kinkel, 17, was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison

210years in prison?? how does that work??

i think its just easier for the courts to give a 210 year sentence (that could never be fullfilled) than give people the death sentence. because if you look at it either way the criminal will be in jail the rest of his life unless of course somthing overturns the sentence but isn't it possible for the case to be overturned when the person is given the death sentence?

my point is it seems to me that it makes less people wonder if sumone is given a 210 year sentence than if someone is sentenced to life. notice people never speak up about a 210 year sentence but they always have something to say about a death sentence. am i right? or am i wrong?