When I was little and I'd hear on the news about someone receiving "life plus ten years" or two life sentences, I could never figure out how that worked. If someone died and still had ten years to serve, I thought they would leave their dead body sit in the cell for ten years to finish the sentence.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- When i was about 5 years old, i used to believe that everything i thought people could hear!Anon
- I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha