People can be prosecuted for more than one thing at the same time... so if you kill 3 people, you get 3 life sentances... b/c you were tried for each of those people.

Lets say your found innocent for one of those people, then you only get two sentances.

All these things: multiple life sentances; 125 year sentances, are all part of the process and paperwork. The system isnt going to only look at your case and say... "ok we cant give him 3 life's... we'll rethink it and give him something more sensible".

Theres too many pending cases to do that for all of them.