Rapist’s 1,000-Year Sentence Upheld, No Parole Till He’s 387 Years Old

Arthur O’Derrell Franklin, 53, serving concurrent 1,000-year prison sentences for brutally raping three women when he was a teenager. (Florida Department of Correction

Florida’s Supreme Court upheld three simultaneous 1,000-year prison sentences for a man convicted of violently assaulting and raping three women 35 years ago.

The ruling means that Arthur O’Derrell Franklin, who was 17 when he committed the crimes in 1983, will in effect spend the rest of his life in prison.