In the United States, life imprisonment is the most severe punishment provided by law in states with no valid capital punishment statute, and second-most...
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a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered "false imprisonment". Imprisonment does not necessarily imply a place of confinement...
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Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which the convicted criminal is to remain in prison for the rest of their natural...
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In England and Wales, life imprisonment is a sentence that lasts until the death of the prisoner, although in most cases the prisoner will be eligible...
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Life imprisonment is a legal penalty in Singapore. This sentence is applicable for more than forty offences under Singapore law (including the Penal Code...
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and not more than 10 years' imprisonment (if imprisonment is imposed). Penalty: 15–40 years in prison or Life imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Though...
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Indefinite imprisonment or indeterminate imprisonment is the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing...
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List of former inmates at ADX Florence (redirect from Notable former inmates of the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADMAX)
Gets Life Sentence". The New York Times. "FBI — Al Qaeda Operative Sentenced to Life Imprisonment in One of the Most Serious Terrorist Threats to the United...
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The United States Penitentiary, McCreary (USP McCreary) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated McCreary County...
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Patrick Franklin Andrews (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
pleaded guilty and was sentenced again to life imprisonment. Andrews is currently incarcerated at USP Florence High in Fremont County, Colorado (Register No...
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Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States. In 2021, over five million people were under...
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Ross Ulbricht (redirect from Ulbricht v. United States)
American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated...
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Rita Gluzman (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
convicted under the United States Violence Against Women Act, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. She was granted a compassionate release in 2020. Gluzman...
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Robert Hanssen (redirect from Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West)
against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S...
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El Sayyid Nosair (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
involvement in a terrorist conspiracy, in Nosair's case life plus 15 years' imprisonment. It was ruled that Nosair's murder of Kahane was part of the "seditious...
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In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide...
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Clayton Fountain (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States military)
life imprisonment, and was ultimately sent to the United States Penitentiary, Marion, which was at the time the highest-security prison in the United...
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Omar Rezaq (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
20267-016, is imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary, Marion, located in Southern Precinct, Williamson County, Illinois. United States Bureau of Prisons...
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Luis Felipe (gang leader) (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
to members of the Latin Kings on the outside. Judge John S. Martin Jr. sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 45 years. Furthermore, the judge added extraordinary...
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Joseph Valachi (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
Genovese were in prison together, he murdered an inmate he thought was a hitman sent by Genovese, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Valachi subsequently...
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Stay of execution (redirect from Stay Of The Excecution)
commuted to life imprisonment. In the United States, all death sentences are automatically stayed pending a direct review by an appeals court. If the death...
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Kristen Gilbert (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
recommended a sentence of life imprisonment. On March 27, the judge formally sentenced Gilbert to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole...
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John Getreu (category American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment)
1963 in West Germany and convicted of two more that took place in 1973 and 1974 in the United States. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the latter...
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Whitey Bulger (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
life sentences plus five years by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper. Bulger was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Coleman II in...
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Ted Kaczynski (redirect from The Unabomber)
serving his life sentences without the possibility of parole at ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Early in his imprisonment, Kaczynski...
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to life imprisonment at the time. Subsequently, a majority of states enacted new death penalty statutes, and the court affirmed the legality of the practice...
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Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
life imprisonment without the possibility of release in a federal prison. Dhinsa was born in Woodcroft, NSW, Australia and emigrated to the Bronx in 1982...
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Victor Amuso (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
and others were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1978 to 1990, four of the five crime families of New York, including the Lucchese family, rigged bids...
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List of longest prison sentences (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment)
continuous time in prison. Out of the 18 listed prisoners who were sentenced to more than one life imprisonment or to life imprisonment plus additional...
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Abu Hamza al-Masri (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government)
battle, he was extradited from the UK to the United States to face terrorism charges and on 14 April 2014 his trial began in New York. On 19 May 2014, Hamza...
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