140 + (life * 7) = sentence for Arizona gunman

Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords stood in federal court to face her would-be assassin moments before he was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and wounding 13 others, including Giffords, last year. Jared Loughner, a 24-year-old college dropout with a history of psychiatric disorders, received seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years in prison, without the possibility of parole, under a plea deal with prosecutors that spares him the death penalty. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns said the life sentences he imposed - one for each of the six people who lost their lives and a seventh for the attempted assassination of Giffords - represented the individuality of the victims. The lengthy sentence means that barring any potential escape, Loughner will never have the opportunity to pick up a gun and do this again. And another murderer was also dealt to this week: 47-year-old Jerome Isaac, a former handyman who doused a 73-year-old woman in petrol and burned her to death in an elevator in her apartment building, has pleaded guilty to her grisly murder. He admitted his guilt as part of a plea deal that will put him behind bars for 50 years for the death of Delores Gillespie in Brooklyn, New York last December. As he appeared in court in Brooklyn on Wednesday, his face was still scarred with burns that he sustained during the gruesome killing. The deal came after Isaac, who has been held in solitary confinement, was caught on surveillance camera attacking Gillespie after she returned home from buying groceries.