"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2mqu0jFp3kqjU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Michael Cash wrote:
> > Murder is 15 to life (or death by hanging), usually with parole in
> > about 10 years.
>
> Question for you Mike:
>
> On a 15-to-life sentence, when is the actual length of the sentence
decided,
> and who decides it?

In Japan? At the conclusion of the trial and it is decided by the panel of
judges.