You must admit that the judicial system has had a few ups and downs with some rather strange sentences being handed down for strange crimes. However, you would be hard-pressed to find a sentence that could actually beat this one for being completely bizarre.
To get to grips with the sentence, we have to go back in time to 1924 and to the Eastern State Penitentiary. Now, the location itself is not going to throw up any strange situations, because you would expect a prison to be filled with individuals with varying sentences, but this is different.
The difference on this occasion was that the prisoner was actually a dog. Not just any dog, but one that was, in the eyes of the governor, guilty of the most horrific crime ever committed—a crime that could only then lead to the harshest punishment that they could hand out at that moment in time, life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Yes, this dog was sent to prison for the rest of its life because it had managed to kill the cat that belonged to the governor. So incensed, the governor then decided that it was best that the dog never saw the light of day again, and it was locked up. We told you that it was the strangest sentence that we could find.