16 is kind of young to receive 20 years imprisonment, isn't it? Even with parole.
Minimum sentencing laws appeared to have messed up this calculus, and I would agree with you if there was no parole involved. With parole, though, I'm leaning the other way.
In theory. In practice, happens all the time. Some people in Rhode Island killed over 100 people, and spent less than 2 years in prison.
You have no idea how hard it is to resist posting a link to a Billy Joel song right now...