Everytime some despicable story hits the news, whether it’s a women who drowned her children or a man who raped and buried alive a stranger, there’s always a huge outcry to give them an extraordinarily large punishment.

It’s a natural feeling, and as the death penalty is being rolled back, life in prison is the number one alternative.

But juries are not above handing out sentences that are so long, no man could complete them.

Take the case of Charles Scott Robinson of Arkansas. In 1994, the man was convicted of raping six children.

Robinson received a sentence of 30,000 years — 5,000 for each of the six counts against him.

This man could survive the next Ice Age, global warming, asteroid strike, alien invasion, and magnetic reversal of the poles–and he would still be in prison.

That’s for multiple counts, but how about just one count?

The longest jail sentence in the U.S. for a single count was issued in Alabama in 1981 when Dudley Wayne Kyzer of Tuscaloosa received 10,000 years for killing his wife, according to the Alabama state website.

He also killed two other people, before you start feeling sympathy for him.

And by the way, an appeal is not always the best way to go.

Darron Bennalford Anderson (what’s the deal with society’s worst having middle names? Lee Harvey Oswald? John Wilkes Booth?) found out that he should’ve just shut up and taken his sentence as it was:

Anderson did not commit murder, but he’s not up for parole until the year 12,744.

The Oklahoma rapist — also convicted of sodomy, kidnapping, burglary and robbery — was sentenced to several centuries behind bars. Anderson’s original sentence in 1994 was 2,200 years.

Just in case he outlived his first sentence.

Extreme sentences like this are highly-uncommon and juries have to be careful about issuing them so whole cases are not thrown out on appeal.

But they do send a message about the sheer gravity and humanity-stripping acts of the most terrible humans on the planet.