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Lawyers for the man who went on a murderous rampage in a Quebec City mosque will tell a judge Monday that he should not be sentenced to die in prison.

Alexandre Bissonnette, who pleaded guilty to killing six Muslim men in January 2017, is scheduled to return to a Quebec City courtroom.

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Over three days, Bissonnette’s lawyers and the Crown will present arguments to Quebec Superior Court Justice François Huot about the sentence the killer should face.

Bissonnette, 28, could be given life in prison without the possibility of parole for 150 years — consecutive 25-year sentences for each of the six first-degree murder charges.

That would be the harshest punishment imposed in Canada since the death penalty was abolished.

Bissonnette’s lawyers have said they will argue that a sentence that exceeds a criminal’s lifespan is the equivalent of a “death sentence by incarceration” and is unconstitutional because the Charter of Rights protects Canadians from “any cruel and unusual punishment.”