"Under the previous law, people who did receive life sentences in fact served life sentences," he said.
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It does, as voting against mandatory life sentences for murder implies opposition to mandatory life sentences for lesser crimes.
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In addition to his four life sentences in Virginia, he has also been sentenced to multiple life sentences in Maryland.
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Muhammad was executed in 85033, while Malvo was handed four life sentences without parole in Virginia and six life sentences without parole in Maryland.
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Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, received two life sentences in two Virginia counties, as well as additional life sentences in Maryland.
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Her photo series "Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences" features women serving life sentences at the Bedford Hills and Taconic correctional facilities in New York.
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Turkish media reported that 128 people received "aggravated life" sentences, which indicates harsh conditions without parole, for their role in the coup, with another 23 receiving standard life sentences.
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In The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences, Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis point to research suggesting the US accounts for 2182 percent of the world's total life sentences.
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He will now serve concurrent mandatory life sentences in jail.
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Viking and Nguza served 13 years of their life sentences.
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In severe cases, the charges can result in life sentences.
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If he's found guilty, the charges command numerous life sentences.
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Others were serving out life sentences they received as children.
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He is currently serving five life sentences for the murders.
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About a third of those have been for life sentences.
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Life sentences do not mean that these offenders just disappear.
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It struck down mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles.
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Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for 21 of the officers.
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He was 7163 years old and serving 2716 life sentences.
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He was sentenced to 74 life sentences in December 295.
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The life sentences will automatically be appealed under Massachusetts law.
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The man was convicted at trial and given two life sentences.
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Alabama that mandatory life sentences without parole were unconstitutional for adolescents.
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He was serving nine life sentences in California's Corcoran State Prison.
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He received seven life sentences in 1996—one for each victim.
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Riina died in prison last year while serving 26 life sentences.
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He'll receive four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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He was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences without parole.
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Life sentences in Sweden are usually commuted to a fixed term.
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In Florida in 2015, 366 people were serving juvenile life sentences.
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Both men are serving life sentences with no possibility of parole.
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Alabama, that invalidated mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders.
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He said he believes the pleas will result in life sentences.
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Timothy Ciboro was sentenced to five life sentences plus 41 years with no eligibility for parole, while Esten Ciboro was sentenced to three life sentences plus 38 years in prison with eligibility for parole, Reed says.
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The cult leader was instead sentenced to nine life sentences behind bars.
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He died in March while serving 25 concurrent life sentences in prison.
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Bowles received life sentences in Florida for the Morris and Roberts murders.
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The suspects were convicted of terrorist-related charges and given life sentences.
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Ramirez is serving life sentences in France for a series of attacks.
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Eusebio Castillo, 48, pleaded guilty in October and received 5 life sentences.
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Simmons and Philip are currently serving life sentences for unrelated double murders.
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He is serving life sentences in France for a series of attacks.
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More than a third of those commuted on Wednesday were life sentences.
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Matthew, 34, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences – the statutory maximum.
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He is serving multiple life sentences at the Supermax prison in Colorado.
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Both men received life sentences and years later, the police, then-Gov.
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He was sentenced to five life sentences with no possibility of parole.
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We doled out life sentences to one out of every 2628,28503 people.
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They had both faced life sentences at the beginning of the trial.
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He was sentenced to multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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They are serving life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole.
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The brief refers to the ban on life sentences for juvenile defendants.
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Malvo pleaded guilty and agreed to serve two life sentences in Spotsylvania County.
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McArthur, 67, was sentenced Friday to eight life sentences to be served concurrently.
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Vilchez Lazo pleaded not guilty, and could face multiple life sentences if convicted.
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Johnson was tried and convicted of the rapes, and received multiple life sentences.
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Jeffrey Pike and John Portillo are each now serving life sentences in prison.
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Not to mention the fact he is serving serving five consecutive life sentences.
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He was most recently serving nine life sentences at California's Corcoran State Prison.
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A man who was with him got two life sentences, plus 50 years.
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Of the 2500 clemency grants Obama issued on Thursday, 34 shortened life sentences.
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They're still serving out life sentences in Oklahoma prisons, according to inmate records.
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They're still serving out life sentences in Oklahoma prisons according to inmate records.
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The sentences were later reduced to life sentences for most of the defendants.
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On Tuesday, the federal court handed Purinton a further three consecutive life sentences.
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Turkey's high court had overturned the previous life sentences against him in July.
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That defense was rejected, however, and Henderson and McKinney were handed life sentences.
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Turkey's high court had overturned the previous life sentences against him in July.
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I mean, there are many countries [that] don't have life [sentences] or executions.
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In general, people serving life sentences are considered for parole after 15 years.
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Opinion Aging inmates, some serving life sentences, helped me turn my life around.
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Alabama, a 2012 decision banning life sentences without parole for most teenage convicts.
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He served nine concurrent life sentences and was denied bail on 12 occasions.
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More than one-third of the 673 convicts had been serving life sentences.
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Mo'allin Mohmed Abukar Ali and Mo'alin Mohamed Sheikh Yusef were given life sentences.
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Still, Malvo still faces separate life sentences related to the killings in Maryland.
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In 2005, he pleaded guilty to the bombings and received four life sentences.
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All were given aggravated life sentences, the toughest penalty under Turkish criminal law.
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Jutting faces multiple mandatory life sentences (to be served concurrently) in Hong Kong.
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He was convicted and sentenced to serve another two life sentences in Fairfax County.
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Judge Helene Kazanjian handed down two life sentences for Matthew Borges, 18, of Lawrence.
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She was charged as an adult and sentenced to to two concurrent life sentences.
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In Tanzania, being convicted of having same-sex relations can result in life sentences.
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He is serving three life sentences for a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax, Virginia.
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According to the outlet, he was sentenced to three life sentences for his crimes.
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Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for the four men, who they charged with murder.
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For example, of the 247 people serving juvenile life sentences, 199 are African-American.
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That means outlawing life sentences without parole for children altogether, whether mandatory or not.
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Henderson and McKinney were both convicted for murder and received two consecutive life sentences.
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Rader was sent to El Dorado Correctional Facility to serve his 10 life sentences.
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Rudolph was arrested after a five-year manhunt and is serving multiple life sentences.
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The court also overturned the life sentences for 21 others in the same case.
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Morgan was reportedly sentenced on Friday to two consecutive life sentences, following her conviction.
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Kaczynski received multiple life sentences and remains incarcerated at a Supermax prison in Colorado.
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She appealed on behalf of prisoners hit with life sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Manson, now 82, is serving nine concurrent life sentences at California's Corcoran State Prison.
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And access to postsecondary education is just as important for those serving life sentences.
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He was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences and three consecutive 30-year sentences.
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A Cairo court overturned life sentences for espionage against Essam and Gihad in 2016.
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At least three were sentenced to death, while five others were given life sentences.
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Kohlhepp is in a South Carolina prison now, serving life sentences for seven murders.
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Kyle Hooper, 21; Justin Soto, 25; and Charlie Ely, 23, are serving life sentences.
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Hayes and Komisarjevsky had been sentenced to death but now are serving life sentences.
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Bulger was serving two life sentences at the time of his death this week.
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In exchange for pleading guilty, on Wednesday, Matthew received four life sentences in prison.
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Cugini sought 27 life sentences in October, but the court acquitted 19 of them.
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Capers said Guzman also faces maximum life sentences on the other drug trafficking charges.
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They could have faced life sentences without parole if convicted, their lawyers had said.
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He is serving 9 concurrent life sentences at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, California.
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Why would I marry someone given two life sentences and 100 years for robbery?
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He and his uncle, Steven Avery, were both given life sentences in the case.
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He has now commuted the sentences of 28503,22019 people, including 395 serving life sentences.
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Alabama (2011) that juveniles convicted of murder cannot be subject to mandatory life sentences.
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Of those 22018,219 children, 22018,216 are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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Bo and his wife are currently both serving life sentences for their respective crimes.
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" Seeking life sentences, she said, would guarantee that "violent offenders will never be released.
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Significantly, they made about 3,000 people serving those life sentences suddenly eligible for release.
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He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and is now serving four life sentences.
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"Tennessee has changed with regard to giving young people life sentences," Ms. Dowell said.
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He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 9 consecutive life sentences.
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We need to do something about the explosion of these life sentences in America.
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He was sentenced nearly five years ago to two consecutive life sentences plus five years.
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Today, Kaczynski is in a federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, serving eight consecutive life sentences.
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She reminded the group that her son's killer got three life sentences, plus 105 years.
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Alabama ruling that mandatory life sentences for juveniles without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional.
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Even for murders, it appeared to favour life sentences for all but the most heinous.
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In addition to the five life sentences, the judge sentenced her to another 21 years.
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As of 2018, both men remain in prison serving out life sentences for Haraway's murder.
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Alsobrooks said that the brothers each face multiple life sentences if convicted on all counts.
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Chris is currently serving five life sentences for the murders without the possibility of parole.
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Eventually, another federal prisoner serving multiple life sentences for contract killings confessed to the shooting.
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Anthony Cook, who is serving two life sentences, already had been convicted in another killing.
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Watts is currently serving five life sentences without the possibility of parole for the Aug.
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Finkelstein is offering Cruz 's guilty plea in exchange for 34 life sentences without parole.
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The charges prosecutors read out — including piracy and violations of counterterrorism law — carry life sentences.
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He was finally arrested in 2011 and was serving two life sentences for 11 murders.
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Both were convicted of 1st-degree murder and armed robbery and each got life sentences.
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Serving life sentences doesn't necessarily mean that you won't get out of prison someday, either.
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The previous 2015 legislation had life sentences but did not explicitly refer to labour brokers.
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In exchange for the life sentences, Kleine said prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty.
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"We need life sentences, and those accused should not be given parole," Dlamini told CNN.
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In addition to the life sentences, Ryan will concurrently serve ten years for attempted murder.
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Fifteen-years-old at the time of the murder, Borges will serve two life sentences concurrently.
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Of those total commutations, 342 were serving life sentences and 839 have been granted this year.
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Earlier this year, three other prominent journalists were given life sentences for alleged links to Gulen.
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It's also why many states require reevaluations of children's life sentences after a certain time period.
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He is in prison serving 10 consecutive life sentences — the maximum possible penalty for his crimes.
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The bill implemented the "three strikes you're out" rule, which expanded circumstances eligible for life sentences.
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Samuel Little is serving three life sentences in the strangulation deaths of three women in California.
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The brothers both face potential life sentences if convicted in their trial, which opened this week.
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All told, the charges could carry three life sentences and up to 70 years in prison.
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More than two hundred of the released prisoners were serving life sentences for terror-related crimes.
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Prosecutors are seeking life sentences with no chance of parole instead of costly capital punishment trials.
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Life sentences in China were often commuted after a few years for good behavior, he added.
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Mr. Singleton is among nearly 160,000 prisoners serving life sentences — roughly the population of Eugene, Ore.
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Among them were 67 people serving life sentences, nearly all of them for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Prosecutor Bret Lucas told the Register he felt justified in requesting consecutive life sentences for Finn.
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He challenged his Virginia sentences under Supreme Court decisions that limited life sentences for juvenile offenders.
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Mr. Silverstein received two more life sentences, for the murders of Mr. Chappelle and Mr. Smith.
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Under the agreement, Mr. Watts will serve consecutive life sentences for each of the three deaths.
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Mr. Bulger was serving two life sentences for his role in 11 murders, including Mr. Donahue's.
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Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohamed Badie and dozens more were given life sentences, judicial sources said.
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Life sentences are not open-ended in Jordan, and can essentially be commuted after 20 years.
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The shooter, James Holmes, is serving a dozen consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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Accused of trying to overthrow the government and destroying property, they face life sentences if convicted.
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He faces multiple life sentences if convicted on all charges against him, Owens told FOX5 San Diego .
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Dasch and another saboteur received life sentences but were later granted clemency by Harry Truman and deported.
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The confessed triple-killer is serving multiple life sentences after pleading guilty last November to the Aug.
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He was serving nine life sentences in California's Corcoran State Prison at the time of his death.
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Even in murder trials, it can lead juries to impose life sentences rather than the death penalty.
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He is serving the first of what amounts to multiple life sentences in federal prison in Arizona.
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Today, only Alaska refrains from punishing offenders with life sentences — and it has no death penalty, either.
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Contrast these life sentences to another recent conviction and sentence from the Northern District of New York.
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Samuel Little, currently serving multiple life sentences for murder, confessed to 93 killings between 1970 and 2005.
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State that life sentences handed down before 1981 violated due process protections due to misleading jury instructions.
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More than a third of these prisoners were serving life sentences, often with no possibility of parole.
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If stupidity were a crime, Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner would serve life sentences for doing so.
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Manson is currently serving nine consecutive life sentences for masterminding the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.
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Under German law, prisoners given life sentences are eligible for review, and potentially parole, after 15 years.
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Kavala, along with two other defendants, had faced life sentences for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government.
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Charles Manson died in November at California's Corcoran State Prison, where he was serving multiple life sentences.
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In particular, it's about the process by which inmates serving life sentences can try to get parole.
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He was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences and three consecutive 30-year sentences for those counts.
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That's why Finkelstein is offering his client's guilty plea in exchange for 34 life sentences without parole.
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Many European countries have life sentences but with a possibility of parole, including France, Germany and Italy.
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There are more than 2,000 federal inmates serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes, according to the ACLU.
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But court rulings meant that when it came to life sentences, judges could only make them concurrent.
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Watts was ordered to serve three consecutive life sentences for the murders, plus two more life sentences to be served concurrently, and 48 years for unlawful termination of a pregnancy for the death of the unborn child that Shanann's family said she had planned to name Niko Lee.
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According to the Post, this does not vacate his convictions and he can still be given life sentences.
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The European Union said that by seeking life sentences, prosecutors were creating a climate of fear in Turkey.
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He faces multiple life sentences if convicted on all charges against him, Prosecutor Dan Owens told FOX 5.
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Two of them received life sentences, the other three will spend from 12 to 20 years in prison.
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Carpenter, 88, was later convicted of some of his crimes and is currently serving life sentences in prison.
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Donaldson urged Berman not to "unnecessarily stack" extra life sentences on Rahimi for three of the eight counts.
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The court was ruling on appeals against murder convictions by two men serving life sentences in separate cases.
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In a prison with 6,000-plus inmates who are mostly serving life sentences, such details have real meaning.
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Dimitris Koufodinas was convicted of multiple murders and other crimes in 2003 and is serving several life sentences.
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Death sentencing is at a record low in this country, but life sentences are at a record high.
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Fixes In the United States, only those who are convicted of the most serious crimes get life sentences.
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He is currently serving 10 life sentences, plus 45 years, in a high-security federal penitentiary in Virginia.
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"The guys we debated that day were serving either life sentences or the rough equivalent," Tribe recalled recently.
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Still, there's a good argument for Booker's bill — and against life sentences more broadly: the age-crime curve.
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The novel's main character is Romy Hall, a 29-year-old serving two life sentences, plus six years.
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A killing in California in 1995 drew national attention after a group of young men received life sentences.
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About 245 people in the state have received such life sentences, including his brother, half brother and stepfather.
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Florida (2010), in which the Court ruled against mandatory life sentences for juveniles for crimes other than murder.
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New York holds roughly 630 prisoners on indeterminate life sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 18.
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Mr. Menéndez went to his grave with more life sentences than anyone else in the history of Argentina.
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While life sentences are mandatory in Irish law for adults in cases of murder, juveniles are treated differently.
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Two men were convicted in Mr. Shepard's killing and are each serving two consecutive life sentences without parole.
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Manson is currently serving 9 life sentences for conspiracy to commit the infamous Manson Family murders in 1969.
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And once there, they said, it could become a seminal test of the constitutionality of consecutive life sentences.
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In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles without the possibility for parole were unconstitutional.
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It does not apply to the six life sentences Malvo received for pleading guilty to six murders in Maryland.
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Which, eventually led me to where I sit today in a federal maximum-security prison with three life sentences.
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This week's verdict comes six months after jurors convicted Mark Leonard, 46; he is currently serving two life sentences.
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According to the Marshall investigation, Louisiana has more juvenile offenders serving life sentences per capita than any other state.
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Ms. Cooley was among the last women in the Alabama prison system serving life sentences on nonviolent drug charges.
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On Thursday, seven suspects were handed life sentences, and 26 others got prison sentences from 12 to 40 years.
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The White House said Tuesday that more than one-third of Obama's clemency recipients had been serving life sentences.
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Seven of the defendants were handed life sentences Thursday, and another 13 were sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Little is serving three life sentences on California convictions and is cooperating with authorities from different states behind bars.
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Bulger is currently serving two life sentences for a series of crimes he committed during the 1970s and '80s.
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She also agreed to testify against Mitchell, who was convicted in December 2010 and is serving two life sentences.
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"If there was ever a case deserving consecutive life sentences, this would be that case," he told the paper.
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" Afterwards, Ocampo read the three life sentences, calling the murders "vicious, sophisticated, and with vulnerable victims who trusted her.
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He is serving 11 life sentences for his role in the group, which was active from 1975 to 2002.
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"A plea to 34 consecutive life sentences ends not only the above immediately but means no appeals," Finkelstein says.
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He effectively amended the law and gave Mr. Bissonnette five concurrent life sentences with 25-year parole waiting periods.
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The prosecution had sought the death penalty for the three men - including a Hindu priest - who received life sentences.
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Thirteen days later, he was sentenced to five life sentences, three to be served consecutively, without the possibility of parole.
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A Nigerian man is serving multiple life sentences in prison for trying to set off the bomb in his underwear.
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Two of the 12 are serving life sentences and the others are due to be released between 2019 and 2073.
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A jury convicted him on all counts and he is currently serving his multiple life sentences at an undisclosed prison.
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As of June 2016, 183 people serving life sentences in Tennessee had been sentenced as teens, according to The Tennessean.
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He will serve seven consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole but he will be spared the death penalty.
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Cullen was finally arrested in 21985 and was sentenced in 22013 to more than a dozen life sentences in prison.
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The indictment, seen by Reuters, seeks life sentences against Kavala, other rights activists and opposition figures involved in the protests.
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He was sentenced this month to five life sentences with no possibility of parole after pleading guilty to the murders.
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Turkey's high court had overruled the previous life sentences against him in July, sending the file back for re-trial.
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The United States Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that life sentences for anyone under the age of 18 were unconstitutional.
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Gulf Cartel founder Juan Garcia Abrego likewise refused to cooperate and, upon his conviction in 22019, received 11 life sentences.
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All seven could face life sentences in federal court in New York on charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Recently, in South Carolina, two inmates serving life sentences for multiple murders strangled to death four of their fellow-inmates.
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Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Chauna Thompson and her husband, Terry Thompson, could each face life sentences after being indicted Thursday.
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Full disclosure: I've lived in a cage since 1996, facing multiple life sentences for crimes for which I remain accountable.
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The public prosecution may also appeal the acquittals or the life sentences that two defendants received instead of death sentences.
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They risk lengthy sentences — one lawyer said his client faces 3,000 life sentences on multiple charges in three separate trials.
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So you would think that innocent people are less likely to be put to death than to serve life sentences.
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In 1993, the Italian authorities captured Mr. Riina in Sicily's capital, Palermo, and judges ultimately gave him 143 life sentences.
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In the article, she uses her experience teaching philosophy to inmates to argue for the irrationality of natural life sentences.
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Mr. El Bahnasawy is scheduled to be sentenced in December; some of the charges against him carry potential life sentences.
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He received two other life sentences after he confessed to killing a pair of men, John Large and Charles Almon.
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He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the deaths of Mr. Howell and Mr. Parlier, The Observer reported.
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He died Tuesday in a West Virginia prison, an 89-year-old man serving two life sentences and five years.
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It inspired him to start a grass-roots organization to help himself and other nonviolent drug offenders with life sentences.
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In her previous position overseeing the Fulton County Human Trafficking Unit, Wright reportedly convicted 19 traffickers, with two receiving life sentences.
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Obama granted 153 commutations, bringing the total number of commutations while he's been in office to 1,176, including 395 life sentences.
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He confessed to about 90 killings last year while serving three consecutive life sentences for murder, the FBI announced last year.
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Although he was given three life sentences, consecutively and without parole, McCowen has continuously declared his innocence, according to ABC News .
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But before that fateful night, and Gypsy and Godejohn's respective 10-year and life sentences, the two simply began talking online.
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The applicant was Clarence Aaron, who was sentenced to three life sentences in 1993 for a role in a drug conspiracy.
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Each of the 21998 charges carry potential life sentences, and Schuette has instructed his team to seek the highest possible sentence.
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"At the prison, where female inmates train these dogs, there are a lot of women doing life sentences," she tells PEOPLE.
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It's a threat to her family; in her eyes, Superman is the reason Lex is in jail for multiple life sentences.
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Of the inmates who have been granted clemency under Obama, White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said 342 were serving life sentences.
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Bever, now 18, was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the assault charge in addition to five consecutive life sentences.
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Mitchell never abducted the girl and would later be convicted of kidnapping Smart and sentenced to two life sentences in prison.
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Manson got the death penalty in 1971, but when that was ruled unconstitutional ... it was changed to 9 consecutive life sentences.
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Mr. Trump asked about the fate of the young men and Ms. Hightower said that they had all received life sentences.
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Loughner is serving seven consecutive life sentences for the shooting in January 2011 that killed six people and wounded 13 more.
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Elderly people of color in prisons across the US are serving out decades-long and sometimes life sentences for marijuana charges.
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He had overridden six jury verdicts calling for life sentences, a state record, while never rejecting a jury's recommendation of death.
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Many of the defendants were given multiple life sentences for crimes ranging from murder to attempting to overthrow the constitutional order.
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It reduces the death penalty to a life sentence of hard labor, and life sentences to 20 years, among other punishments.
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Alabama, the court ruled that automatic life sentences for juvenile offenders violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Malvo, who was 17 at the time, was sentenced to serve multiple life sentences in prison without the chance for parole.
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Today, Henrikson is serving two life sentences at the federal Supermax prison in Colorado, convicted on 11 murder-for-hire counts.
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Two defendants were handed life sentences, four were given four years in prison and two were handed three years in jail.
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He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, but in 2010, a federal appellate court overturned his 19 life sentences.
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A 21100 report by the Sentencing Project, a criminal-justice research-and-advocacy group, found that the number of people serving life sentences nationwide grew by 2116,21360 from 2122 to 2016, driven both by a growth in the imposition of life sentences and by the reluctance of most states to grant parole to those who are eligible.
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In 2005, the US Supreme Court banned the death penalty for minors; in 2010, it ruled against mandatory life sentences for juveniles who committed non-homicide offenses; in 2012, it ruled against mandatory life sentences for juveniles under all circumstances; and this past January, it ruled that inmates already serving mandatory sentences should receive new sentencing hearings.
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Gonzalo Curiel was given two life sentences without the possibility of parole for murdering two young children and torturing another in 2015.
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Doctors who perform abortions face criminal charges with life sentences, and the law doesn't make exceptions in cases of rape and incest.
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In May, Turkey handed down 53 life sentences without parole to Yusuf Nazik, the man authorities say planned the 2013 bomb attack.
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Bulger was convicted in 2013 of either committing or ordering 11 murders, among other crimes, and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
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Karamitrou said she believes the attack was related to her coverage of a man who is serving multiple life sentences for murders.
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Steven Hayes is serving six life sentences for the 2007 murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Michaela and Hayley.
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Alabama, the Supreme Court ruled that automatic life sentences for juvenile offenders violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Britain is looking at how to tighten controls on the sale of corrosive substances and the possibility of life sentences for offenders.
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In a decision published online Thursday, the Supreme Court decided unanimously that life sentences for first-degree murders must be 60 years.
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Saturday's decision paves the way for criminal proceedings against the defendants that could lead to life sentences if they are found guilty.
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Despite the fact she was a minor who had been sex trafficked, she was subsequently given two concurrent life sentences in 2004.
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The majority of the inmates involved in the case were serving life sentences and have since been moved to different correctional facilities.
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She agreed to testify against Mitchell, who was convicted in December 2010 on those same charges and is serving two life sentences.
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They are each being held in lieu of $9 million bond and possible life sentences in prison if convicted of all charges.
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I was serving 30 life sentences, plus an additional 20 years, for sending out letter bombs when the real turning point came.
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George Ryan of Illinois commuted the sentences of 167 death-row prisoners to life sentences or less, just before he left office.
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How he got here Little is serving three consecutive life sentences for murders he committed in Los Angeles County, according to Bland.
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The charges include forming a terrorist group, attempted murder, and grievous bodily harm, and the defendants could receive up to life sentences.
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In December, Magufuli pardoned two convicted child rapists for raping 10 primary school girls after serving 13 years of their life sentences.
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Sara Bennett, a criminal-defense lawyer turned photographer, is shedding a light on the humanity of women serving life sentences for homicide.
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Many of the prisoners serving life sentences demonstrate considerable personal transformation, often serving as model inmates and mentors to newly arrived prisoners.
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Riina, one of Sicily's most notorious Mafia bosses, was serving 26 life sentences for murder convictions as a powerful Cosa Nostra boss.
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Hodges, but also on issues such as the rights of enemy combatants, mandatory life sentences for minors and state anti-immigrant laws.
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CB: In California, they've gotten rid of "three strikes and you're out" laws that were giving people life sentences for minor crimes.
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People like Alice Johnson, for example, should not be given de facto life sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in the first place.
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Mr. Echols, the suspected ringleader, was sentenced to death, while the other two, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., received life sentences.
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In January, the Supreme Court struck down Florida's capital sentencing system, which also allowed judicial overrides of jury recommendations of life sentences.
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He died in prison in November; he had been incarcerated since 1993 and was serving 26 consecutive life sentences for his crimes.
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Manson and his followers were convicted in 1971 and ultimately given life sentences, being spared execution after California temporarily banned the death penalty.
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All six are serving aggravated life sentences, which means they are not eligible for parole and cannot be included in future amnesty decisions.
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"We still stand ready to plead guilty to 34 consecutive life sentences without parole," Finkelstein said in an email to Reuters on Tuesday.
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It cited recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional, and that this rule applied retroactively.
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In this current climate, it may be some crumb of comfort to know that Hanssen is currently serving 15 life sentences for espionage.
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Barbara and Kenneth are serving life sentences after being convicted of felony injury to a child, according to CBS and the Morning News.
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A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered life sentences for three senior opposition members, overturning a previous acquittal on charges of spying for Qatar.
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Berkowitz was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences and is being held at the Sullivan Correctional Facility maximum-security prison in New York.
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Roughly 312,000 trials resulted in prison sentences — including 15,444 life sentences — propelling Rwanda to one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
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Nineteen other defendants were given life sentences on Thursday, nine were given sentences of 15 years, and one received a 10-year term.
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In addition to Johnson's case, Kardashian West has financed campaigns to release 16 other people from life sentences for low-level drug crimes.
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He has been pushing for a plea deal since the shooting -- where his client pleads guilty in exchange for 34 consecutive life sentences.
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Also, Hoover is the founder of a Chicago gang, who is currently serving six consecutive life sentences in a supermax prison in Colorado.
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The gunman, James Holmes, was convicted of mass murder despite pleading not guilty by reason of insanity and is serving multiple life sentences.
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As a district attorney, however, she only pursued 25-to-life sentences on a "third strike" that was a serious or violent felony.
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Despite their release, the two journalists are still facing possible life sentences at a trial which is due to start on March 25.
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Described by the judge as the "embodiment of evil," Patterson was given consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, reports the Associated Press.
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Statistics from the California corrections department showed that more than 45% of inmates serving life sentences under the three strikes law were African-American.
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The 56-year-old Hayes is serving six life sentences for the killing of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Michaela and Hayley.
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Kayleigh's mother, Sara Lynn Krueger, and her then-boyfriend, Ryan Scott Warner, received life sentences without the possibility of parole for the child's murder.
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Bradley is serving several life sentences for raping and sexually molesting scores of young patients, whose assaults were captured on home videos he made.
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He was serving four life sentences after his 1987 conviction for the murders of 25 people, most of them at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati.
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Of the 214 commutations Obama granted Wednesday, 67 of the prisoners were facing life sentences and the vast majority imprisoned for nonviolent drug crimes.
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Last May, a court in Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 115 people, giving 53 of them life sentences on terror charges, according to Reuters.
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On Friday, Ashton received two life sentences without the possibility of parole for their murders and an additional 50 years for using a firearm.
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Both Kenneth and Bilal received life sentences, and both emerge after more than a decade in prison, uncertain what to expect out of life.
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Alice joined "TMZ Live" Monday to talk about Kim's continued efforts and success in getting non-violent drug offenders out from under life sentences.
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Bulger is serving two life sentences for his conviction in a multi-count racketeering case that included participating in drug dealing, extortion and murder.
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Last year, a judge sentenced Matthew to three life sentences for the 2005 sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Last year a judge sentenced Matthew to three life sentences for the 2005 sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Despite no physical evidence or witnesses, Echols was sentenced to death for the murders, while friends Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley received life sentences.
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An Atlanta man by the name of Wayne Williams was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for two of the murders.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences were unconstitutional for juveniles and later found that the ruling should be applied retroactively.
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Four of the sentenced were given "aggravated life" sentences, the harshest punishment possible under Turkish law because it raises the minimum required for parole.
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According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, at least forty other people are reportedly on death row or serving life sentences for blasphemy.
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One of the traffickers got a death sentence — which, in China, are generally commuted to life in prison — and two others got life sentences.
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Court records obtained by PEOPLE confirm Finn appeared before a Polk County judge and learned her fate: three life sentences, to be served consecutively.
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This was the case for Correctional Officers Jose Rivera and Eric Williams, who were stabbed to death by convicted murderers already serving life sentences.
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We know there are too many people like Alice Johnson still behind bars, serving life sentences for nonviolent, first-time offenses — many involving drugs.
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Bulger was captured in 2011 after spending years on the lam, and was serving two life sentences for committing 11 murders across several states.
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The first show of justice came in Tallahassee, in 1959, when four white men received life sentences after kidnapping and raping Betty Jean Owens.
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In total, Green is being investigated in nine separate investigations, and the five charges currently being brought against him could result in life sentences.
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In Alabama, where judges can override jury recommendations of life sentences in capital cases, they are more likely to do so in election years.
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Her charges, if she is found guilty, carry potential life sentences that could also include the death penalty, magistrate judge Robin Meriweather told Thompson.
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A record number of people are serving life sentences, according to the Sentencing Project, a group that advocates improvements to the criminal justice system.
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He told a Senate hearing that he was unaware the Justice Secretary's approval was required before releasing nearly 900 former felons serving life sentences.
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But while some ADX prisoners are high-profile criminals serving life sentences, others are relative unknowns who are eventually released after serving their time.
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The criminal justice reform group the Sentencing Project notes that as of 2016, some 793,907 federal inmates were serving life sentences for drug offenses.
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Two defendants then faced a death penalty hearing, which resulted in life sentences after the jury could not agree on imposing a death sentence.
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Two of the prisoners were released from death row and given life sentences — only to be returned to death row a few years later.
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The ringleader, a 41-year-old man, was given a suspended death sentence for selling and manufacturing narcotics and two others received life sentences.
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To avoid the death penalty, Kohlhepp cut a plea deal and received seven life sentences, plus 60 years on sexual assault and kidnapping charges.
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Sara Bennett is a former criminal defense lawyer who began practicing photography to bring a human face to women serving life sentences in prison.
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Two of the prisoners were released from death row and given life sentences — only to be returned to death row a few years later.
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Three of the men have been convicted of IS membership and sentenced to death by Iraqi courts, while five have been given life sentences.
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Malvo was only 17 at the time, which is why the judge vacated the life sentences and ordered new sentencing hearings, the Washington Post reported.
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Dedmon apologized to Anderson&aposs family as he pleaded guilty to state murder and hate crime charges in 2012, and was given two life sentences.
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But doctors likely won't get life sentences The legislature has put abortion in the same arena with "very heinous crimes," Alabama attorney Victor Revill said.
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It focuses on developing inmates as people through educational programs, family engagement and the mentorship of older inmates, some of whom are serving life sentences.
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In 2012, California voters overwhelmingly approved the Three Strikes Reform Act, also known as Proposition 36, which eliminated life sentences for non-serious, nonviolent crimes.
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And it's a prisoner that was focused on -- he has six life sentences, and they have him next to the Unabomber doing 23 and 2000.
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The driver was resentenced in 2011 to nearly 34 years in prison after a federal appeals court overturned the multiple life sentences he had received.
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This week, Brown's attorneys are expected to cite recent Supreme Court rulings that state mandatory life sentences for minors without chance of parole are unconstitutional.
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We've written about our jobs, our fights, the glaring cell lights, the giant fans, mail call, Texas sunsets, life sentences, and about years going by.
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Federal life sentences have fallen since Obama took office, from 22014 in fiscal year 2009 to 153 in 2013, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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Sixteen activists face "aggravated life sentences" (meaning they must in theory serve at least 36 years) for their role in mass protests six years ago.
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They are among a total of nine defendants who worked for a pro-Kurdish newspaper closed by authorities, some of whom face possible life sentences.
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He is already serving three life sentences for the 2005 abduction, sexual assault and attempted murder of a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax County.
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Some of the defendants are still serving life sentences for crimes they probably didn't commit—and most likely didn't even happen in the first place.
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The Justice Department chose not to retry Bagcho on the narco-terrorism charge because he was serving life sentences on the other charges, he explained.
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He pleaded guilty this month to first-degree murder and other charges, and was sentenced Monday to five life sentences with no possibility of parole.
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Prosecutors early this week demanded life sentences for 36 people suspected of involvement in an IS bombing that killed 101 people in Ankara last October.
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The jury returned a unanimous verdict on both counts of murder and the 31-year-old Jutting was sentenced to two concurrent mandatory life sentences.
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Sara Bennett, a photographer, advocate, and former criminal-defense lawyer, gives people a look at what it's like for women serving life sentences in prison.
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At the country's top security jail in Harare, two female prisoners serving life sentences remained after the amnesty, while vetting was ongoing at other prisons.
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When I was first in Aiud, in 2005, inmates were still wearing khaki uniforms—except those who were serving life sentences; they wore orange uniforms.
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Mr. Cruz's lawyers have offered a plea bargain — consecutive life sentences without parole — in a bid to avoid a trial and the threat of execution.
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Not much has changed with Dassey or Avery since the end of Making a Murderer season one — they're both still in jail serving life sentences.
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More than 200 of our clients have been released from life sentences, and not a single one has gone on to commit a violent crime.
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A 78-year-old convicted killer, already serving three life sentences, is now telling police that he strangled many, many more women over the decades.
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It sought life sentences for me and 15 other civil society members, who were accused of being part of a clandestine organization led by me.
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New York (CNN)Convicted New York City bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi was sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison by a federal judge on Tuesday.
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While al Darbi deserves every second of the multiple life sentences he would normally receive for such heinous crimes, there is much more at stake.
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The court imposed two consecutive life sentences for the murders and an additional seven years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter charge, the statement said.
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Harvey, serving multiple life sentences and eligible for parole in 2043, murdered his victims using various methods, including arsenic and cyanide, according to court records.
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In 2012, the Supreme Court held that mandatory life sentences for juveniles were unconstitutional, but it did not categorically ban the imposition of the penalty.
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And American turncoats like Aldrich Ames of the C.I.A. and Robert Hanssen of the F.B.I. are serving life sentences for spying on behalf of Russia.
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The prosecution was unable to determine the cause of death due to the decomposed state of Wall's body, and life sentences are relatively rare in Denmark.
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He refused legal representation, claiming the trial was illegal and illegitimate, and was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences and an additional 40 years in prison.
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London (CNN)A London court handed 22 life sentences to a man Monday after he pleaded guilty to 71 child abuse offenses while in Southeast Asia.
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Well, there's a category of decision-making here that is for people who do not have life sentences; they're susceptible to these kinds of decision-makers.
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She agreed to testify against her husband Brian David Mitchell, who was convicted in December 2010 on those same charges and is serving two life sentences.
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Life sentences are considered 45 years for parole purposes in Oklahoma, and inmates must serve 85 percent of each sentence before technically being eligible for parole.
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Life sentences were handed out, and credulous reports on 20/20 and by Geraldo Rivera made sure the panic became a part of the cultural mainstream.
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On Thursday, Bever was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the assault on his 13-year-old sister, in addition to the five life sentences.
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Manson and several of his followers were sentenced to death, but had their terms commuted to life sentences when the California's death penalty was briefly abolished.
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They were released last month, after the constitutional court ruled that their rights had been violated, but still face trial and, if convicted, possible life sentences.
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Another 103 people were serving what the group terms "virtual life sentences," or sentences that are long enough to virtually guarantee that someone dies in prison.
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Prosecutors had demanded life sentences in solitary confinement, without parole, for three of the defendants, including Mr. Kavala, and up to 20 years for the others.
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Two South Carolina prison inmates serving life sentences for murder were charged with killing four other inmates inside a maximum-security prison, the authorities said Saturday.
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But most of the nation's 36063,36053 inmates serving life sentences have little hope of ever achieving freedom; that possibility of parole exists almost entirely on paper.
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Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences is the culmination of this work and offers a powerful portrait of the US criminal justice system today.
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For Mr. Hanssen and Mr. Ames, who faced the death penalty for espionage, it meant life sentences negotiated by their lawyer in plea deals with prosecutors.
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Armed with Ms. Holdman's voluminous research of both men's lives, their defense teams worked with prosecutors to let them plead guilty in exchange for life sentences.
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He pleaded guilty to the killings and is serving five life sentences after prosecutors and Shanann's family agreed to drop the possibility of the death penalty.
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Film Club This short Op-Doc documentary profiles a former prisoner who guides men released from life sentences in California through their first hours of freedom.
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He's facing centuries of jail time in Heyer's August 2017 death after Virginia and federal judges separately handed down life sentences for the 22-year-old.
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Richard's wife will be at a book signing Sunday for the reissue of Richard's book, "Pryor Convictions And Other Life Sentences" at Book Soup in WeHo.
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In 2011, Hamas exchanged a captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, for more than 363,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were serving life sentences for killing Israelis.
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They have made some headway in reducing juvenile incarceration rates, with DiIulio himself signing an amicus brief in 2012, petitioning to end life sentences for juveniles.
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The bill would do away with the "three-strike" provision that requires mandatory life sentences for third-time drug offenders, making the sentence 25 years instead.
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The indictment calls for life sentences without parole for the defendants, who are accused of attempting to overthrow the government and financing the protests among other charges.
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The 2015 law introduced life sentences for traffickers, better protection for people at risk of being enslaved, and made businesses check their supply chains for forced labor.
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Erik and Lyle's first, 1993 trial ended in deadlocked jury, but in a second trial they were found guilty and sentenced to two-term life sentences each.
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Manson has been serving nine consecutive life sentences at a prison in Central California for masterminding the 1969 murders of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, and five others.
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MR. MOORE: Six consecutive life sentences in the most secure prison in the world, also known as "a clean version of hell," for basically an economic crime.
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He also said it was unfair for Green to be subject to such a stiff offense right before the law removing the mandatory life sentences took effect.
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The legislation introduced life sentences for traffickers, measures to protect people at risk of being enslaved, and made large companies inspect their supply chains for forced labor.
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The British law introduced life sentences for traffickers, measures to protect people at risk of being enslaved and made large companies scrutinize supply chains for forced labor.
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Sweat (Paul Dano in Escape at Dannemora) and Matt (Benicio del Toro) became friendly while serving their 25-years-to-life sentences, both earned for gristly crimes.
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The law introduced life sentences for traffickers, measures to protect people at risk of being enslaved, and made large companies scrutinize their supply chains for forced labor.
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Former Oakland Raiders defensive end Anthony Smith was just sentenced to 3 consecutive life sentences for killing 3 men between 1999 and 2001 ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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After Matthew pleaded guilty to the 2014 murder of Hannah Graham and the 2009 murder of Morgan Harrington, a judge sentenced him to four consecutive life sentences.
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In November, Manuel, now 40, was released from prison six years after a Supreme Court decision prohibited life sentences for juveniles charged with anything less than murder.
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Barghouti is currently serving five life sentences plus 40 years of imprisonment after he was found guilty of five counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
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The former deep web kingpin was handed a brutal prison term: two life sentences without parole, along with 20 years and 15 years for two other charges.
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The 2,257-page indictment seeks two life sentences and an additional 1,900 years in jail for Gulen, plus tens of millions of lira in fines, Anadolu said.
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The number of people serving life sentences is four times what it was in 21625 — currently imposed on one of every seven people in a U.S. prison.
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Charleston church attacks sparks Birmingham memories Blanton is held in the St. Clair Correctional Facility near Birmingham, where he is serving four back-to-back life sentences.
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Watts pleaded guilty in November to first degree murder and other charges in their deaths and was sentenced to five life sentences with no possibility of parole.
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Stars: she had not seen them since she got caught, and, as she was serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole, she might not again.
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Over the past three months, Kim Kardashian West has helped commute the life sentences of 17 inmates that were incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses, CNN reported Tuesday.
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"This was the equivalent of torture," U.S. District Judge David Ezra told Bradley when he handed out two concurrent life sentences at a court in San Antonio.
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California will allow thousands of nonviolent criminals serving life sentences to seek parole under a ballot measure approved by voters two years ago, The Associated Press reports.
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With the help of other inmates, we also created the Prison Community Awareness Program, mentoring inmates aged 255 to 503, some of whom were serving life sentences.
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The confrontation ended in the death of a police officer for which nine members of MOVE, nicknamed the MOVE 22018, were controversially convicted and given life sentences.
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Alabama, which established that mandatory life sentences for children were unconstitutional, many children are still unjustly sentenced and forced to spend their formative years locked behind bars.
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In 2016, Mr. Faison introduced a bill in the state legislature that would require reviews of life sentences for juveniles after they serve 15 years in prison.
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Mr. Yalcin was arrested in 1979 by Turkey's military government because of his ties to a Marxist-Leninist group and received two life sentences for "revolutionary activities."
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She even started studying to become a lawyer last year and has helped commute the life sentences of more than a dozen first-time nonviolent drug offenders.
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Bulger was serving life sentences for his role in 11 murders Bulger was arrested in June 2011 after he eluded federal authorities for more than 16 years.
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Dao noted that the piece does say the author received multiple life sentences but he acknowledged that it doesn't state the crimes for which he was convicted.
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Mr. Nassar, 56, is serving several life sentences in prison for sexually abusing scores of women under the guise that he was administering medical treatment to them.
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The British law introduced life sentences for human traffickers, compel firms to address the risk of forced labor and established a role of independent anti-slavery commissioner.
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Despite their release, the two journalists are facing possible life sentences at a trial due to start on March 25 and are banned from leaving the country.
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From three murders to 90 Little, 78, confessed to about 90 killings last year while serving three consecutive life sentences for murder, the FBI announced last year.
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I recently spoke to Ms. Kruzan and Elizabeth Calvin of Human Rights Watch, who now collaborate to end the use of life sentences without parole for minors.
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Jurisdictions could reduce justice-related budgets by restructuring drug-sentencing laws to match public opinion and revise the use of mandatory minimum, long-term and life sentences.
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And yet he's not the first to receive such a sentence: In 2003, the serial killer Gary Ridgway was sentenced to 49 life sentences plus 480 years; in 2015, James Holmes, the "Dark Knight" shooter, was sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,12000 years without parole; and in 2017, Ronald C. Yarber, a foster parent found guilty of sexual assault of a child, was sentenced to 1,652 years.
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Prosecutors said Guzman and other former Shining Path leaders, all of whom are already in prison, should receive life sentences and pay reparations for the Tarata Street bombing.
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The 2015 law introduced life sentences for traffickers, better protection for people at risk of being enslaved, and forced companies to check their supply chains for forced labor.
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Under the bill, doctors and health care providers could face life sentences in prison for "intentionally causing the death of a child born alive" after a failed abortion.
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Justice Alphonse Owinyi-Dollo gave life sentences to Ahamed Luyima, Hussein Hassan Agad (alias Hussein Agade), Idris Magondu (alias Christopher Magondu), Habib Suleiman Njoroge and Muhammed Ali Muhamed.
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Is the wrong person serving a pair of life sentences for the 1994 kidnapping and killing of Pennsylvania mother Joann Katrinak and her 3-month-old son, Alex?
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This is one reason why the Supreme Court has ruled that children can't get the death penalty and states can't make life sentences without parole for juveniles mandatory.
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As part of her plea agreement, Huntsman, who CBS News reported was originally facing the death penalty, will instead serve consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.
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You know, what does it look like to have two individuals who've been convicted of serious crimes serving life sentences but proclaiming from behind bars that they're innocent?
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A few months before, two inmates serving life sentences took two nurses hostage and held them with homemade knives for about seven hours, according to CNN affiliate WACH.
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"We still stand ready to immediately plead guilty to 34 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole," Howard Finkelstein, a county public defender, wrote in an email.
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Donald Harvey, 64, was found Tuesday beaten in his cell at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio, where he had been serving four life sentences, authorities say.
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The court in 2012 had ruled that mandatory life sentences without parole in homicide cases involving juvenile killers violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Kaczynski has mailed with a lot of people since he was given eight life sentences in 1998, and he apparently doesn't take kindly to people dirtying his reputation.
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Recommendations in the bill include life sentences for traffickers, compelling firms to report whether their supply chains are free from slavery, and gives enforcement officers wider investigation power.
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I am excited that bipartisan legislation – the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act – has been introduced to help others like me facing life sentences for low-level drug offenses.
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Alabama, that declared that juveniles convicted of murder may not automatically be given life sentences, and that judges must take individual circumstances, including age and background, into account.
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In September, a court froze the assets of five prominent human rights activists and three NGOs, paving the way to criminal proceedings that could lead to life sentences.
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Ulbricht is serving double life sentences and was convicted of money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic fake identification documents and conspiracy to traffic narcotics over the internet.
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Bryant, who was 28 at the time, was captured alive after an 18-hour standoff with police and is serving 35 life sentences in prison with no parole.
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From his prison cell in California, where he is serving three life sentences for three murders in the 1980s, he has started to paint portraits of his victims.
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Holmes is serving his life sentences at an undisclosed prison, after state corrections officials moved him for safety reasons when he was assaulted by another inmate last year.
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The judge in the case sentenced him to seven life sentences — one for each rape Julie endured and one for the kidnapping her and each of her kids.
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And after the mace incident, Perico was moved to a unit with men all serving decades-long or life sentences and suddenly realized what he'd escaped—so far.
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Mr. Bulger, who was serving two life sentences for 11 murders, had eluded police for 16 years before he and a companion were arrested in Santa Monica, Calif.
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This means that they are less guilty than adults and that their punishment must be different, especially in the case of life sentences for those convicted of murder.
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He is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing in September, when the judge will establish the minimum number of years he must serve of his life sentences.
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Op-Ed Contributor In 2012, the Supreme Court took a step toward righting a terrible wrong by banning mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for children.
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Since 1988, according to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, federal juries have opted for life sentences for nearly two-thirds of defendants convicted of capital crimes.
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Violent criminals are generally the people the public feels least ambivalent about locking up; life sentences have historically been seen as a humane alternative to the death penalty.
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The legislation included the federal "three strikes" provision and mandating life sentences for criminals convicted of a violent felony after two or more prior convictions, including drug crimes.
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HOOVER'S LAWYER: Six consecutive life sentences in the most secure prison in the world also known as Clean Version of Hell for basically... WEST: What prison is that?
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HOOVER'S LAWYER: Six consecutive life sentences in the most secure prison in the world also known as Clean Version of Hell for basically... WEST: What prison is that?
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — A court in southwestern Turkey handed down life sentences on Wednesday to 40 men, including senior military officers, for trying to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and the highest percentage of people serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, many of them at Angola.
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That was the version of the story that Joshua Rofé, a documentarian who had made "Lost for Life," about juveniles serving life sentences in prison, wanted to tell.
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The Modern Slavery Act introduced life sentences for traffickers, measures to protect people at risk of being enslaved, and made large companies scrutinize their supply chains for forced labor.
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The European Union said that by seeking life sentences, prosecutors were creating a climate of fear in Turkey, while the U.S. State Department has said Washington is gravely concerned.
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But Wallin can't make it to the station, because he's a convicted sex offender who is currently serving two life sentences at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
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Shanann Watts' mom dad and brother listen as DA Michael Rourke explains the at least three life sentences #ChrisWatts will serve for killing his wife and 2 little girls.
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In Turkey, which has been the top jailer of journalists three years in a row, life sentences without parole equate to 30 years in solitary confinement with limited visits.
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Bulger, who was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the recent biopic Black Mass, is currently serving two life sentences for conspiracy, racketeering, extortion and the murder of 11 people.
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Britain passed a tough anti-slavery law in 2015 introducing life sentences for traffickers, and the surge in numbers referred for support may reflect better awareness of the crime.
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Serial killer Todd Kohlhepp, who is serving seven consecutive life sentences in prison for murdering seven people, claims he has more victims — but is declining to give any specifics.
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The landmark law introduced life sentences for traffickers, forced firms to check their supply chains for forced labor, and offered better protection for people at risk of being enslaved.
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Brown, now 30, argued that her lifelong imprisonment was unconstitutional under a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which found that juveniles could not receive mandatory life sentences without parole.
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He would later plead guilty to the murders of Carver and six others over 13 years, and be sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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Michael Floyd "Pretty Boy Floyd" Wilson, 47, who was serving two life sentences for convictions of two separate homicides in 2014, is considered extremely dangerous, said Sheriff Mike Ezell.
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Despite their release, the two journalists are still facing possible life sentences at a trial due to start on March 25 and they are banned from leaving the country.
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A man has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences on federal hate crime charges for killing an Indian immigrant and wounding two other men in a Kansas bar.
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Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences for the massacre of nine African Americans at the historically Black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.
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Recommendations in Kwok's bill include life sentences for traffickers, compelling firms to report whether their supply chains are free from slavery, and giving law enforcement officers wider investigation power.
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Nuon Chea, known in the regime as "Brother Number Two," and Khieu Samphan known as "Brother Number Four," are already serving life sentences in Cambodia for crimes against humanity.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's highest court upheld life sentences against three opposition leaders on charges of spying for Qatar, state news agency BNA and a rights group said on Monday.
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In federal court in Syracuse, New York a judge recently imposed mandatory life sentences on two Canadian men convicted of operating a "continuing criminal enterprise," under the kingpin statute.
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The 79-year-old went largely unknown until 2014, when DNA evidence connected him to the murders of three women in California, where he's now serving three life sentences.
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Little was first incarcerated for murder after he was given three life sentences in 2014 over the killings of three Los Angeles-area women in 1987, 1989, and 1994.
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But I am actively drawn to essays, and am right now immersed in "Life Sentences," a 2012 collection by William Gass (our most accomplished living American essayist, hands down).
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The ruling does not affect Malvo's convictions or the six life sentences that he was given in Maryland, the paper reported, although his attorneys are appealing those as well.
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Wagner, a current member of the state Senate, said he would be introducing a bill that creates "no plea bargains, no life sentences and no mercy" for school shooters.
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We also had the guidance and wisdom of several "old-timers" — prisoners decades older than us, some serving life sentences, who committed themselves to keeping us out of trouble.
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He had received 21990 life sentences — the most of any military leader from that era — for crimes that included homicide, torture, forced disappearances and the kidnapping of a newborn.
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A majority of the prisoners at Angola, which is built on the site of several former slave plantations, are serving life sentences, either by judicial decision or by default.
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He gave Mr. Patterson two life sentences without any possibility of parole, after hearing from Jayme and her aunts and uncles, who asked the judge to impose the maximum.
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The court imposed aggravated life sentences on the six defendants who were found guilty of "seeking to overthrow the constitutional order by force", the state-run Anadolu news agency.
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The 4th Circuit cited Supreme Court decisions issued since the shooting spree finding that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional, and that this rule applied retroactively.
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Patterson received two life sentences in May for the death of Closs' parents and was given a 40-year sentence for kidnapping Jayme, who was 13 at the time.
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The F.B.I. says Samuel Little, now 78 and serving consecutive life sentences for three murders in Los Angeles in the 1980s, has confessed to 93 murders across the country.
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When it comes to life imprisonment in particular, Mauer and Nellis's book pointed to research that suggested the US accounts for 40 percent of the world's total life sentences.
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On Thursday, the court sentenced 17 defendants, including former Air Force Commander Akin Ozturk, to 141 aggravated life sentences for "attempting to destroy constitutional order", Demiroren news agency said.
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Story Behind the Story: How Charles Manson Started Living With One of the Beach Boys Manson died Sunday at 83 while serving nine life sentences in California's Corcoran State Prison.
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Long beloved by Palestinians and decried as a terrorist by Israelis, the 57-year-old Barghouti is behind bars since 2005 serving five consecutive life sentences related to murder charges.
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Strange, isn't it, to discuss Netflix's true crime sensation Making A Murderer without first mentioning Steven Avery or Brendan Dassey, the two men currently serving life sentences for the crime?
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Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey are serving life sentences in the 2005 killing of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach, who was found outside Avery's home in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
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Dylann Roof was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences Monday afternoon for shooting nine people to death in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina nearly two years ago.
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They will not go to trial and will serve life sentences, unless granted parole after 25 years imprisonment, for crimes that convulsed their suburban, palm-tree-lined community of Perris.
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He was 1983 and serving nine life sentences in California's Corcoran State Prison at the time of his death, which was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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Henri van Breda appeared impassive on Thursday as a judge sentenced him to three life sentences for the grisly killings in Stellenbosch, a scenic town in a wine-growing area.
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Separately, state media said officials found guilty of serious corruption and given life sentences would never be eligible for parole, a concession previously available, depending on their behavior in jail.
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Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, are serving life sentences in the 803 killing of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach, who was found outside Avery's home in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
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Her sentence, and its seemingly disproportionate severity compared to Braxton's, brought national attention to the unfair application of such laws, which carry potential life sentences in six states, including Oklahoma.
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"They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes, for example, the 35 individuals whose life sentences were commuted today," he continued.
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In an indictment drawn up earlier this week, prosecutors demanded life sentences for 36 people suspected of involvement in an IS attack that killed 101 people in Ankara last October.
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And Louisiana is one of two states that allows felony defendants to be convicted when 10 of 12 jurors agree on guilt, even in cases that carry mandatory life sentences.
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But for "Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences," she was granted access to step deeper into New York prisons, where she captured powerful portraits and heard women's stories.
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Some Senate Republicans have dug in against it, and opposition intensified this week when President Obama commuted the sentences of more than 200 federal prisoners, including 67 serving life sentences.
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The Oregon Justice Resource Center (OJRC), an anti-death penalty organization, in 2016 found that the death penalty cost twice as much as those for life sentences in the state.
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"Making a Murderer" followed the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach in rural Wisconsin that brought life sentences for scrap-car dealer Avery and his then 16-year-old nephew, Dassey.
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George Ryan of Illinois was so shaken that days before his term ended he commuted the sentences of all 171 people on death row, converting their terms to life sentences.
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While leading the group, Mr. Cook teamed up with Mr. Sessions, when he was a senator, to oppose legislation that would have softened mandatory life sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
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He spent hours each day on the phone with prisoners, some of whom were serving life sentences and would never have the chance to enter Anthony House and find help.
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Mr. Malvo was convicted of one count of murder at a trial in Virginia, and also entered into a plea agreement; in both cases he received life sentences without parole.
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Britain passed tough anti-slavery legislation in 2015 introducing life sentences for traffickers and allowed for British nationals to be tried for trafficking offences regardless of where they took place.
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He pleaded guilty to the killings last last year and is serving five life sentences after prosecutors and Shanann Watts' family agreed to drop the possibility of the death penalty.
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The Modern Slavery Act introduced life sentences for traffickers and measures to protect people at risk of being enslaved and made large companies scrutinize their supply chains for forced labor.
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The gunman and his lookout were also given life sentences, which in France are not necessarily served until the end of an offender's life as they can apply for parole.
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The 87-year-old Riina died in a hospital in Parma, the northern Italian city where he had been serving 26 life sentences for murders committed between 1969 and 1992.
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In the early 1990s, California passed laws mandating life sentences for a third felony and allowing minors to be charged as adults if they were determined to be gang members.
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On Thursday, Robinson learned she'll spend the rest of her life behind bars when she received three life sentences; Granger received a 30-year sentence for helping Robinson commit the abuse.
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Brown had argued in previous appeals that her lifelong imprisonment was unconstitutional under a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which found that juveniles could not receive mandatory life sentences without parole.
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Two prominent Turkish opposition journalists have gone on trial and face possible life sentences on charges of espionage, after publishing footage purportedly showing the state intelligence agency sending weapons to Syria.
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CNN reported in May that Kardashian West helped aide the commutation of life sentences for 17 inmates who were first-time nonviolent drug offenders over the course of just 90 days.
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Britain passed tough anti-slavery legislation in 2015 introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing companies to disclose what they are doing to ensure their supply chains are free from slavery.
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Reuters TV Reuters gets a rare look into one of Japan's aging prisons - where convicts serving life sentences are losing their mobility, and their confidence to re-enter the outside world.
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A top Cambodian court has upheld the life sentences of the two most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people.
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A US Supreme Court decision last year led states to review their policies on mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for people convicted of crimes when they were minors.
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On Friday, Kohlpepp agreed to a plea deal that gave him seven consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole but spared him the death penalty, according to Spartanburg County prosecutors.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court accepted an indictment seeking life sentences against businessman and rights activist Osman Kavala and 15 others over the 2013 Gezi protests, Kavala's lawyer said on Monday.
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In 2015, Britain passed tough anti-slavery legislation introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing companies to disclose what they are doing to ensure their supply chains are free from slavery.
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One of the people sentenced by the court was given a suspended death sentence - which in practice is normally commuted to life in jail - and two got life sentences, Yu said.
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While it convicted Abu Khatallah on two terrorism material-support charges, the jury returned a special finding that his actions did not result in death, which would have carried life sentences.
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In January, the justices voted to apply that decision retroactively, making as many as 2,500 people who were already serving mandatory life sentences eligible for new sentences or a parole hearing.
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Defense attorney Howard Finkelstein said he would prefer his client take a plea and serve 34 consecutive life sentences, one for each of the counts on which Cruz has been indicted.
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He's currently in prison in New York, where he is serving five concurrent sentences: two life sentences, another for 20 years, one for five years, and one more for 15 years.
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When handed life sentences in 2014 at an earlier trial for other crimes against humanity, both men denied responsibility for the regime's brutality, even though they were among its highest leaders.
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Of the 2,341 people currently serving mandatory life sentences without the possibility for parole for juvenile offenses, it's estimated that more than 1,000 of them will be affected by the decision.
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Lackey bases her argument against natural life sentences on two reasonable claims: (1) people (criminals, specifically) can and do change in profoundly transformative ways, and (2) we cannot know the future.
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The ruling is is likely to have a broader impact on other inmates who were convicted as juveniles because Malvo is also serving life sentences for his crimes in other states.
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However, he later pleaded guilty to the killings and was sentenced in November to five life sentences after prosecutors and Shanann's family agreed to drop the possibility of the death penalty.
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All of them met the same criteria: they were impoverished, they insisted that they were blameless, they were serving life sentences for serious crimes, and they had exhausted their legal options.
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Kavala and two other defendants had been facing life sentences without parole, while the other defendants were accused of aiding them in attempting to overthrow the government by organising the protests.
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He later pleaded guilty to the killings, and is serving five life sentences -- three consecutive and two concurrent -- after Shanann's family agreed to drop the possibility of pursuing the death penalty.
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Photo essay editor Gabriel Sanchez spoke with her about her work (Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences), and compiled a selection of her photos and quotes from her subjects.
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After he was found guilty of the murder of Espinoza and the attempted murder of his partner, a judge handed down two consecutive life sentences, one without the possibility of parole.
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Only about 2,800 prisoners sit on death row today, but over 50,000 prisoners are serving life without parole, and about 200,000 prisoners have life sentences, according to a Sentencing Project report.
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Milat, 74, was serving seven consecutive life sentences after being convicted in 1996 of killing two Britons, three Germans and two Australians in a case that made grim headlines around the world.
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I saw a documentary about Lewisburg prison—the prison I was in—20 years later, and there were two or three murders a year and people doing life sentences with no parole.
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Milat, 74, was serving seven consecutive life sentences after being convicted in 1996 of killing two Britons, three Germans and two Australians in a case that made grim headlines around the world.
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In 2015 Britain passed tough anti-slavery legislation introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing companies to disclose what they are doing to make sure their supply chains are free from slavery.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said Rahimi had offered no explanation for his behavior that would warrant imposing less than the two life sentences, one of which was mandated by federal law.
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The pair were subsequently indicted in 2011 for allegedly attempting to send weapons to Iraq "for the purpose of killing U.S. soldiers," and are currently serving life sentences for federal terrorism offenses.
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In 2015, Britain passed tough anti-slavery legislation introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing companies to disclose what they are doing to make sure their supply chains are free from slavery.
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The two journalists, who still face trial and potential life sentences, were arrested in November and charged with intentionally aiding an armed terrorist organization and publishing material in violation of state security.
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Britain last year passed tough anti-slavery legislation introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing companies to disclose what they are doing to make sure their supply chains are free from slavery.
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Thanh, a former high flyer in Vietnam who was accused of mismanagement and causing losses at PetroVietnam Construction JSC, has been given two life sentences in Vietnam since he was brought home.
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In one about life sentences for juveniles, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at first used a masculine pronoun to refer to Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson of the Louisiana Supreme Court, a woman.
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Michael Holmes, who will leave prison after serving 18 years of a life sentence for drug crimes, is one of hundreds of inmates whose life sentences have been commuted during Obama's presidency.
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She was still hoping to get clearance to visit Rader, now 240, in El Dorado Maximum Security Prison, where he has been serving 21977 consecutive life sentences since his arrest in 19913.
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Mr. Little already is serving three life sentences for the murders of three Los Angeles women during the 1980s, but the authorities suspect him of killing women in at least 14 states.
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Mr. Huckle was given 22 life sentences in June 1403 after admitting to 71 offenses against children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years, the BBC reported at the time.
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Despite being 17 at the time of the shootings, Malvo was handed several life sentences in relation to the killing spree, which left 10 dead and millions living in terror for weeks.
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Mr. Ramírez, 67, who was born in Venezuela, has been incarcerated in France since shortly after his capture in Sudan by French agents in 1994, and is already serving two life sentences.
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These reforms mean that defendants will no longer face mandatory life sentences for third strike drug offenses and federal prosecutors are no longer able to aggressively stack guns and drug charges consecutively.
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One officer was acquitted, 40 received life sentences, and two others received lesser sentences: A former military aide to Mr. Erdogan received a sentence of 18 years, and another officer 15 years.
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The perpetrator Fields pleaded guilty in March to 29 federal hate crimes as part of an agreement that eliminated the death penalty as possible punishment, and received two life sentences in prison.
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A Colorado man who publicly pleaded for the safe return of his wife and children on TV after they disappeared has been sentenced to three life sentences in prison for their deaths Monday.
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He had already lost previous legal fights against two other convictions that also earned him life sentences, and this was his third and last appeal, although he had not been expected to succeed.
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In 2015 the UK passed tough anti-slavery legislation introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing companies to disclose what they are doing to make sure their supply chains are free from slavery.
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Christopher Watts was sentenced Monday to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole in the murders of his wife Shannan, 34, daughters Bella, 4 and Celeste, 3, and unborn son, Nico.
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In exchange for his guilty pleas, he has been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences, the statutory maximum for each of these counts, said Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Tracci in a statement.
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One week later, on October 19503th, the same nine justices split 5-4 in recognising another advance in criminal justice: a ban on life sentences without the possibility of parole for juvenile offenders.
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The 82-year-old convict, who is serving nine life sentences for a series of gruesome murders that he and his followers committed in 1969, was rushed to Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif.
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In a plea deal reached with prosecutors, Kohlhepp would avoid the death penalty and instead receive seven consecutive life sentences, plus 30 years for the sexual assault charge and 30 years for kidnapping.
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Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) took the lead on reform by introducing HR 6011, which would end life-without-parole and de facto life sentences for children in the federal criminal justice system.
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They include threats to transform 10-year mandatory minimum sentences into life sentences based on a person's prior convictions for minor drug offenses — discretion that lies completely in the hands of the prosecutor.
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Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, 89, a former army general who is already serving life sentences for human rights violations, was convicted in the case related to Ms. Torres and of scores of other crimes.
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It would also eliminate mandatory life sentences for Third Strike drug offenders, end the stacking of 593(c) "guns and drug" sentences and give judges more discretion to sentence below their mandatory minimum.
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Washington (CNN)A federal judge in Virginia overturned the two life sentences of Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo on Friday, more than a decade after he was originally sentenced as a teenager.
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The convicted triple-murderer — who is serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole — has been moved from a prison in the Denver area to another facility outside the state of Colorado.
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At least 148 inmates in Tennessee are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for 51 years for crimes they committed as juveniles, according to figures from the state's Department of Correction.
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Last year, the court said that ban should apply retroactively: It told prosecutors to conduct resentencing hearings for the approximately 2,500 people who were serving life sentences for crimes they committed as adolescents.
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Prosecutors in Mugla, a city in the southwest, sought life sentences for 47 former soldiers who officials say tried to assassinate Mr. Erdogan on July 15 during his vacation on the Mediterranean coast.
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Mr. Faison, who introduced a failed bill in 2016 that would have required reviews of life sentences for juveniles after they serve 15 years in prison, said he regularly speaks with Ms. Brown.
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His plan would end 1990s-era "three strikes and you're out" laws, which mandated life sentences for people convicted of more than two felonies, even if the third crime is a minor offense.
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Britain was hailed as a global leader after passing the 2015 Modern Slavery Act which introduced life sentences for traffickers and forced large companies go public with their efforts to address forced labor.
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Bampumim Teixeira received two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for murder in the 2017 stabbing deaths of Lina Bolanos and Richard Field, both anesthesiologists who were engaged to be married.
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Brett Ryan, the "fake beard bandit" bank robber turned "crossbow killer," has been sentenced to three concurrent life sentences in jail for murdering his mother and two brothers in Toronto, Canada, last summer.
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Two prominent journalists from the pro-opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper are facing potential life sentences on charges of endangering state security for publishing material that purports to show intelligence officials trucking arms to Syria.
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Amnesty International Turkey representative Andrew Gardner described the case as "an attempt to rewrite history" and said the request for life sentences without parole represented a "massive escalation" in Turkey's crackdown on civil society.
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On Thursday, the reality-television alum, 51, was sentenced in a Louisiana courtroom to two life sentences in prison plus 20113 more years for raping two preteen girls after he was convicted in April.
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The Georgia mother who fatally stabbed her husband and four of her children nearly two years ago pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seven criminal counts, and subsequently received five life sentences from a judge.
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The state court drew inspiration from Supreme Court jurisprudence in Miller v Alabama, a 2012 case that banned mandatory life sentences without parole for defendants who committed their crimes before reaching their 18th birthday.
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Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour sentenced him to a dozen consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus a maximum 3,318 years for his conviction on attempted murder and explosive charges.
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In 1993 at the age of 26, she was sentenced to serve three life sentences, plus another 20 years, for drug-related offenses related to her husband's cocaine trafficking ring, according to the report.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey put on trial 200 suspects on Monday including senior military officers accused of plotting and orchestrating last year's failed coup, in a court case where prosecutors are calling for life sentences.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A Cleveland man was sentenced on Wednesday to five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for murdering five people in 2014, including a woman and her unborn child, prosecutors said.
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Huckle, 30, was given 22 life sentences in a London court on Monday after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse against children in Malaysia and Cambodia from the ages of six months to 12.
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One reason these other nations don't have mass incarceration—and have abolished the death penalty—is that reformers there have mounted influential movements denouncing the inhumanity of prisons, life sentences, and executions per se.
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According to a recent article by Michelle Alexander in The Nation, President Bill Clinton "championed" the $234-billion bill, creating a three-strikes policy that forced some three-time offenders to serve life sentences.
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Mr. Moore has expressed concern over the years about mandatory life sentences for nonviolent crimes, and once suggested that a death row inmate might not be getting a fair shake in the court system.
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Abelardo Ortiz, a Colombian national convicted in 2000 of a drug trafficking murder, and Dwight Loving, convicted in military court in 1989 of killing two cab drivers in Texas, will now serve life sentences.
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Nearly three years after the true crime docuseries Making a Murderer premiered on Netflix, its subjects Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are still behind bars, serving life sentences for the murder of Teresa Halbach.
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On Monday, Mr. Watts was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing his wife, Shanann, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and his daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.
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Residents of the northwestern city of Bamenda said the flare-up followed a court's handing life sentences last Tuesday to 10 separatist leaders, including Julius Ayuk Tabe, a key figure in the Anglophone movement.
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No deal was imminent, the people said, but the talks were active and contemplated the defendants — including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the attacks — pleading guilty and probably receiving life sentences.
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Little was already serving three consecutive life sentences after his conviction for killing three Los Angeles-area women, and he pleaded guilty to killing another in Texas when he made the confession last year.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The trial was over in less than a year, and eventually all of the men were convicted and given eight consecutive life sentences, plus 90 years, for the crimes.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's high court overruled life sentences against three journalists, who were sentenced over alleged links to the network of U.S.-based cleric Fetullah Gulen, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.
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The measure created a federal "three strikes" rule that automatically imposed life sentences on repeat offenders and subsidized prison construction for states that created "truth in sentencing" laws that limited the use of parole.
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Harsh sentences have left those individuals serving life sentences without parole over dime bags, not only barring them from future involvement in what is now a multi-billion dollar industry but also taking their freedom.
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He had also bombed an abortion clinic and was connected to several other bombings in the Atlanta area and Birmingham, AL. He was sentenced to serve four consecutive life sentences plus 120 years in prison.
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A state judge in South Carolina has handed down nine consecutive life sentences to Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015.
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Life sentences are taking up more than 10 percent of our prisons, and so we have to confront these life without parole sentences if we are going to do something about incarceration in this country.
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But legislators in Louisiana, which imprisons the most citizens per capita and has the worst record in the country for meting out life sentences to adolescents, are giving a similar bill a warm, bipartisan reception.
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Sentencing reforms backed by Senate proponents of the reform deal include lowering mandatory minimum life sentences for serious drug offenses to 85033 years and mandatory minimum 20-year sentences for such offenses to 15 years.
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According to a press release from Spartanburg County Solicitor Barry Barnette, Kohlhepp, 46, agreed to a deal that gives him seven consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole and spares him the death penalty.
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Gay sex is punishable by death in Sudan, as well as parts of Nigeria and Somalia, according to the Post, which added that those convicted of same-sex relations in Tanzania could face life sentences.
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The case, which has horrified South Africans and been dubbed locally the "cannibal case," came to a close on Wednesday when Mbatha, 33, and Lungisani Magubane, 32, were given life sentences for murder, AFP reports.
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For the sake of the families involved, Finkelstein told CNN, he would prefer his client take a plea and serve 34 consecutive life sentences, one for each of the counts on which he's been indicted.
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"It was just another example of the white-privileged society that we live in," Andre Cooper, a man serving three life sentences in Maryland for racketeering, drug dealing, and homicide, told VICE in an email.
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It's not just that prison sentences got longer; more crimes also began to be punished by life sentences, including life without parole, as prosecutors and judges embraced tougher sentences on some of the worst convicts.
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Those of us who believe in an objective morality but wince at the idea of damnation should probably take a harder look at imprisonment, especially life sentences and sequestrations suffered by people like William Blake.
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One of the most contentious features of the felony murder bill is that it is retroactive, meaning that people currently serving life sentences for felony murder could petition the court to have their sentence reviewed.
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When we entered the system in 246, only a very small percentage of violent offenders — by some estimates, roughly 2381 percent — serving life sentences in New York had been paroled after serving their minimum sentence.
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Riina, who turned 87 on Thursday, died in the prison ward of a hospital in Parma, the northern Italian city where he had been serving 26 life sentences for homicides committed between 1969 and 1992.
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Some 20173,22017 felons serving life sentences have quietly walked free under a good behavior program in the three years since Duterte swept to power, promising to wage a national war on corruption, drugs and crime.
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He received two life sentences in 1981 after pleading guilty in North Carolina to second-degree murder in the deaths of John M. Large, 19, and Charles P. Almon, 46, according to the Asheville Citizen.
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Life sentences usually stem from convictions for violent crimes such as murder, rape and kidnapping, although by the end of 21120 almost 2130,2122 of the nation's lifers had been given those sentences for nonviolent crimes.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court handed life sentences to Hassan Malik, a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his son Hamza and five others on Tuesday after convicting them of terrorism offences.
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The pardons, which were among 193 granted by Mr. Barbour that day, elicited outrage and claims that the governor had unfairly evaluated the cases of the four men, all of whom were serving life sentences.
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A court in the Hungarian town of Kecskemét handed down 25-year sentences to four men believed to be the gang's ringleaders Thursday, stopping short of the life sentences without parole demanded by the prosecution.
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Hicks, 50, accepted three consecutive life sentences without parole as part of his plea deal, two months after the district attorney dropped plans to seek the death penalty in an effort to speed up the proceedings.
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The music, often observations about problems afflicting African societies, also offers insights into the lives of its performers, like the three sisters who sing of the killing that brought them to Zomba to serve life sentences.
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Seven of the convicts had their life sentences reduced to jail terms ranging from 19.5 years to 20 years, including people convicted of instigating "secessionist activities" or participating in terror attacks, Xinhua said late on Tuesday.
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Among those facing life sentences are General Ismail Hakki Karadayi, 85, who was chief of general staff between 1994 and 1998, and his deputy at the time General Cevik Bir, state-run Anadolu news agency said.
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John Dalton Jr., 19983, received three life sentences plus 197 to 230 years after he pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four weapons charges, a Douglas County District Court official tells PEOPLE.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered life sentences for three senior opposition members, overturning a previous acquittal on charges of spying for Qatar in what an international rights group called a "travesty of justice".
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Over the past few months, courts have handed rare life sentences to traffickers, denied bail to another person facing charges, and ordered compensation to be paid to a victim even though her trial was still ongoing.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has granted amnesty to all female prisoners except those on death row or serving life sentences, as prisons struggle to feed inmates due to lack of funding from the government.
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Aides noted that while Harris was district attorney and dealing with the three strikes law on a day-to-day basis, she did not seek any 25-year-to-life sentences on any low-level crime.
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Manson, Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten were all sentenced to death, though their death penalties were commuted to life sentences the following year with the abolishment of the death penalty in the state of California.
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While Mr. Obama pardoned 212 people and commuted the sentences of 1,715 prisoners, including 568 serving life sentences, Mr. Trump has acted mainly on a few high-profile cases brought to him by associates and allies.
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Among others was that when Salvatore Riina, the head of Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra crime syndicate and the man who ordered the murders of the two prosecutors, died last year, he was serving 26 life sentences.
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Before appearing in Don Diva, many of the stories they had told — about, say, Larry Hoover, a Chicago gangster who is serving six life sentences for murder and narcotics convictions — existed mostly as oral-historical myth.
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"This breach of trust of such young children, vulnerable and trusting of their father, was horrific," said Justice Allan Betton, who sentenced Forman to the mandatory life sentences for the murder convictions, reports the Canadian Press.
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The bombshell news of the purported confession comes as Steven Avery, 57, and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, 22019, are serving life sentences after being convicted of murdering the 22020-year-old photographer in Wisconsin in 210.
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In The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences, Mauer and Ashley Nellis wrote that the number of people sentenced to prison for life grew from 203,000 in 1984 to nearly 162,000 in 2016.
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They were already serving life sentences for 2014 convictions for crimes against humanity, in connection with the forced evacuation of the capital Phnom Penh after they took power under their notorious leader Pol Pot in 1975.
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Just one month later, tragedy struck when Hudson's mother, brother and nephew were killed by her former brother-in-law William Balfour (he was convicted of the murders and is serving three consecutive life sentences in prison).
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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A Cameroonian court handed life sentences to 10 separatist leaders on Tuesday after finding them guilty of charges including terrorism in their fight to break away from the Francophone-dominated central government, their lawyers said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama commuted the prison terms of 42 non-violent drug offenders, nearly half of whom were serving life sentences, in his latest batch of clemency decisions, the White House said on Friday.
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So those are -- And also, Larry Hoover is an example of a man that was turning his life around, and as soon as he tried to turn his life around, they hit him with six life sentences.
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The 33-year-old is serving multiple life sentences after pleading guilty last November to the August 13, 2018, murders of his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, and the couple's two young daughters, Bella, 4, and Cece, 3.
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Britain is viewed as being at the forefront of global efforts to tackle the crime, having passed the Modern Slavery Act in 2015, which introduced life sentences for traffickers, and offered better protection for people at risk.
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The first trial in 1993 ended in a hung jury, but the second ended in first-degree murder convictions and two-term life sentences for the men — a fate Menéndez said he has come to terms with.
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"Two years in jail for four people killed is a grave injustice to the victims and their families who have been dealt life sentences because of one person's devastating decision to drink and drive," the organization said.
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By 2004, 13 members of Aum Shinrikyo had been sentenced to death and five members given life sentences for their roles in the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway and various individual murders perpetrated by the group.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man accused of killing his parents and sister in retaliation for being cut off financially pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder charges, receiving three consecutive life sentences instead of the death penalty.
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The push to raise more funds comes more than a month after Ulbricht appealed his conviction of seven charges, including money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracies to traffic narcotics, for which he was given two life sentences.
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Both Avery and Dassey were found guilty and are serving life sentences, a fact that enraged many Netflix subscribers who were sure after ten hours of couch time that they had witnessed a grave miscarriage of justice.
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Mr. Bulger, who was serving two life sentences for 11 murders, was found unresponsive at 8:2753 Tuesday morning and pronounced dead by the Preston County Medical Examiner, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
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Even though prosecutors introduced evidence to potentially link him to some of the other murders, Mr. Williams, who is serving two life sentences, was never tried or convicted of killing any of the children — no one was.
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Judge Jackson based his ruling on a 2012 Supreme Court decision in an Alabama case that found the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment barred mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for juveniles.
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A five-member Federal Court panel unanimously ruled that the death sentences were the most appropriate, upholding a decision by a lower court to increase the penalty from life sentences, according to the state news agency Bernama.
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Which is really the only way to understand why, in October 2011, Israel released 1,027 prisoners, some of them hardened terrorists, more than 300 of whom were serving life sentences, in exchange for this one ordinary soldier.
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The court in the Aegean coastal town of Izmir handed 503 of 280 defendants "aggravated life" sentences, Hurriyet said, the harshest punishment possible under Turkish law as it raises the minimum time in jail required for parole.
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As part of Israel's effort to undermine the Palestinian struggle for freedom, an Israeli court sentenced me to five life sentences and 40 years in prison in a political show trial that was denounced by international observers.
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Britain passed tough anti-slavery legislation in 2015 introducing life sentences for traffickers, measures to protect people at risk of being enslaved and compelling large businesses to address the threat of forced labor in their supply chains.
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WEST: We have Larry Hoover's lawyer with us today and it's a prisoner that focused on - he has 220 life sentences and they have him next to the Unabomber doing (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: What did he do, Larry?
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So those are -- and also, Larry Hoover is an example of a man that was turning his life around, and as soon as he tried to turn his life around, they hit him with six life sentences.
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WEST: We have Larry Hoover's lawyer with us today and it's a prisoner that focused on - he has 220 life sentences and they have him next to the Unabomber doing (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: What did he do, Larry?
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"Two years in jail for four people killed is a grave injustice to the victims and their families who have been dealt life sentences because of one person's devastating decision to drink and drive," the organization's statement said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama shortened the prison sentences for 98 convicts serving time for drug-related offenses in his latest round of commutations, including for 42 people serving life sentences, the White House said on Thursday.
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Sanders' "justice and safety" plan would also end 1990s-era "three strikes and you're out" laws, which mandated life sentences for people convicted of more than two felonies, even if the third crime is a relatively minor offense.
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Britain is regarded as a leader in global efforts to combat slavery, with its 2015 Modern Slavery Act introducing life sentences for traffickers, forcing companies to address the risk of forced labor, and better protect people at risk.
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"We are devastated and feel betrayed with Judge Lowy's inability to give three consecutive life sentences without the eligibility of parole to the individual that took Colleen's life in such horrific manner," she told reporters after the hearing.
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It also scaled back some of the harshest criminal penalties like mandatory life sentences for third-strike drug offenses and retroactively applies other reforms to give thousands of people an opportunity to petition a judge for their freedom.
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As policy changes worked to undo unconstitutional overcrowding brought on by the state's infamous Three Strikes Law and others, and the remaining population shifted towards those serving long-term or life sentences, society began to change as well.
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She pleaded guilty on the lesser charges in part to avoid the possibility of multiple life sentences if convicted for the alleged kidnapping, her attorney, James Nelsen tells PEOPLE • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?
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The indictment calls for life sentences without parole for the Kavala and 15 other defendants including civil society figures, writers and actors, who are accused of attempting to overthrow the government and financing the protests among other charges.
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A 48-year-old New York man received two consecutive life sentences for beating his girlfriend and her daughter to death with a hammer in 2014 because he believed they were witches who were casting spells on him.
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His sister, Julie Downs Van Woy, said the family had been assured by Qatari and American officials that life sentences in Qatar usually mean 25 years, and that prisoners with good behavior are released after half that time.
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"I hope the verdict today is beneficial to everyone," Bastog said as he sentenced 34 of the accused to "aggravated" life sentences, the harshest punishment possible under Turkish law because it lengthens the minimum sentence required for parole.
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But it was a Republican, Kay Bailey Hutchison, then a senator of Texas, who proposed broadening an existing restriction on Pell grants for prisoners serving life sentences or on death row to all prisoners, no matter their offenses.
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Though serving life sentences for five murders during the Second Intifada of the early 2000s, Mr. Barghouti, 57, is popular among Palestinians and is seen as a possible successor to the unpopular Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, 82.
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Many of them are serving life sentences with a theoretical chance of parole, but despite submitting thick dossiers of their accomplishments in prison along with letters of support from their supervisors and professors, they are routinely turned down.
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As a result, the number of people serving such sentences — including "virtual life sentences" that exceed an offender's expected life span — is growing steadily, even as the rate of violent crime sinks to its lowest levels in decades.
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The bank pulled out of a $90 million loan to Uganda's health system in 2014 after the government passed a law that imposed life sentences for certain homosexual activities and made it a crime not to report violations.
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Yarrington, who has not made any public statement since his arrest in Florence on April 9, faces the prospect if convicted of two life sentences in the United States and up to 20 years in a Mexican prison.
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She said the recent decline in executions in the county was a result, in part, of lower crime rates over all, as well as a change in Texas law in 2005 that allowed for life sentences without parole.
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ANKARA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A Turkish court upheld life sentences on Tuesday for prominent journalist Ahmet Altan and five others, after they were sentenced in February on charges of aiding the plotters in a failed military coup in 2016.
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Her story was often raised as a symbol of a number of issues, from juveniles receiving life sentences, to the criminalization of women doing sex work, and the justice system's failures when dealing with women affected by sexual violence.
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On the other end of a sprawling conference room table are a pile of letters addressed to her from inmates who are hoping she will take interest in their case in an attempt to have their life sentences commuted.
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Britain's 2015 Modern Slavery Act is considered a milestone in the global anti-slavery fight for introducing life sentences for traffickers, forcing firms to check their supply chains for forced labor, and protecting people at risk of being enslaved.
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Brown, now 22016, is appealing her case in the US Court of Appeals for the 22012th Circuit in the wake of recent US Supreme Court rulings that mandatory life sentences for juveniles without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional.
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Kim Kardashian West's funding of the 90 Days Freedom campaign — spearheaded by lawyers Brittany Barnett and MiAngel Cody — has helped free 17 inmates in 3 months who had been serving life sentences for low-level drug offenses, TMZ reports.
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Then-President Bill Clinton signed into law an omnibus crime bill in 1994 that included the federal "three strikes" provision, mandating life sentences for criminals convicted of a violent felony after two or more prior convictions, including drug crimes.
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However, in a landmark 2013 case, the ECHR ruled that life sentences without parole amount to (in their view) intolerable punishment and violate the European Commission on Human Rights, notwithstanding that some of these life-sentence convicts committed murder.
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Thursday's ruling came in response to a lawsuit in which Brown argues her sentence is unconstitutional, citing a 2012 opinion by the US Supreme Court that said mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders violate the US Constitution.
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The case was often raised as a symbol of a number of issues, from juveniles receiving life sentences to the criminalization of women doing sex work, and the justice system's failures when dealing with women affected by sexual violence.
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LONDON — Richard Huckle, who was serving 22 life sentences after admitting to the sexual abuse of scores of children, was found dead under "suspicious" circumstances in prison, according to the police, who said on Monday that they were investigating.
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Virginia's appeal concerns the scope of a 2012 decision in which the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that mandatory life sentences without parole in homicide cases involving juvenile killers violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Twelve people were killed and 70 were injured in 2012 during a midnight movie theater showing of "The Dark Knight," also about the Joker character, in Aurora, Colorado, by a lone gunman who is now serving multiple life sentences.
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Handing over Mr. Ali, who resides on the F.B.I.'s most-wanted list for hijacking an American Airlines flight and fleeing to Cuba to escape multiple life sentences for the murder of eight people, is one of those conditions.
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I tell the story in my book of Joseph Sledge, who received two life sentences, and since he did not get a death sentence, he was not entitled to receive lawyers from the state once his appeals ran out.
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Speaking with Refinery29, NBC News anchor Lester Holt discussed the many mitigating factors in Brown's case and told Refinery29 that it, "shines a light on the underlying issue of kids who were tried as adults and are now serving life sentences."
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Two prominent Turkish journalists will be charged with assisting terrorists and face life sentences without parole if convicted, their lawyers said, after they published video footage purporting to show the state intelligence agency helping to send weapons to Syria.
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A 25-year-old man serving three consecutive life sentences for fatally stabbing his friend and the friend's parents in 2007 hanged himself last week in his cell at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in Pennsylvania, PEOPLE confirms.
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They have life sentences with the possibility of parole, and though it seems from recent statistics that parole is being granted more often than in the past, nobody I talked to in San Quentin seemed overly optimistic about getting paroled.
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ANKARA, March 13 (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a Syrian man to two life sentences for the murder of a Syrian opposition activist and her Syrian-American journalist daughter in Istanbul last year, the private Dogan news agency reported.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New Jersey man convicted of planting bombs in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood in 2016 received two life sentences on Tuesday, after expressing no remorse in a Manhattan courtroom for engineering the explosion that injured 30 people.
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Four of the Washington high court's justices protested that the majority's logical leap in Bassett—which expands on Miller by invalidating even discretionary life sentences for minors—had "no basis in state law" and was simply a faulty reinterpretation of Miller.
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Britain's Modern Slavery Act has been lauded as a milestone in the anti-slavery fight for cracking down on traffickers with life sentences, forcing businesses to check their supply chains for slavery, and protecting people at risk of being enslaved.
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The paper reports that since 2014, at least 24 states have enacted new measures requiring an automatic review of life sentences imposed on teens after they have served a certain number of years — ranging from 213 to 40 years after sentencing.
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Yet the most popular Palestinian politician, according to opinion polls, remains Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the first and second uprisings against Israel who was convicted of murder by an Israeli court in 2004 and is serving five life sentences.
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The hearings, which were live-streamed by local news outlets, were required by a United States Supreme Court ruling intended to prevent juveniles who commit severe crimes from receiving mandatory or arbitrary life sentences without consideration for their circumstances and maturity.
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He went into a calm and semi-robotic spiel about people with life sentences and the numerous long-termer programs for which I'd be eligible with a G.E.D. I said I'd think about it and was taken back to the cell.
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The 2015 Modern Slavery Act has been lauded as a milestone in the global anti-slavery fight for introducing life sentences for traffickers, forcing firms to check their supply chains for forced labor, and protecting people at risk of being enslaved.
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The former Delaware senator said he now favors life sentences without chances for probation or parole at the federal level and would work to pass legislation to outlaw the federal death penalty as a way to encourage states to follow suit.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A court in Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 193 people and gave 53 of them life sentences on terrorism charges, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday, in one of the most severe rulings yet in the Gulf island kingdom.
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The Associated Press reported that Samuel Little, who is currently serving life sentences in California for multiple killings for which he was convicted in November, is thought by investigators to be connected to dozens of killings of women across the country.
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The state argues the 4th Circuit incorrectly expanded the ban on "mandatory life without parole for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes" to include life sentences where the judge could use their own discretion.
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ISTANBUL — A long-awaited trial of two Turkish journalists facing potential life sentences on espionage charges began Friday, but was quickly closed to the public and news media, prompting outrage and concerns over whether the proceedings could be free and fair.
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As they continue the stories of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, both serving life sentences in Wisconsin for a 2005 murder, TV news crews are ever-present, drawn by the notoriety the series has given the men's cases.
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Their cases stand in stark contrast to those of Mr. Charles, whose plight has gained national prominence, or John Knock, who in 2000 was given two life sentences plus 20 years without parole for conspiracy to launder money and distribute marijuana.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ruled that a man who terrorized this region 15 years ago as the so-called Beltway Sniper must be resentenced because the life sentences imposed when he was a teenager are unconstitutional.
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Prosecutors said that the man, Esteban Santiago, would plead guilty to 11 counts related to violence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and would serve five consecutive life sentences, followed by 120 years in prison for the shooting rampage on Jan.
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In dozens of lesser-known cases, she immersed herself in the biographies of each defendant, examining family histories that went back several generations and unearthing painful memories of trauma and abuse as she helped their lawyers argue for life sentences.
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A Supreme Court case challenging the lifetime prison sentence given to one of the D.C. snipers is being withdrawn just hours after Virginia's governor signed a bill into law that would effectively end life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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Cruz, who was sentenced in 1997, and many other then-juvenile offenders faced resentencing in light of a US Supreme Court ruling that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles amount to cruel and usual punishment, CNN affiliate WXMI reported.
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There are thousands of men and women across the country who have received life sentences — not to remain behind bars — but rather to suffer and endure the stigma and discrimination that follows anyone whose name appears on a sex offender registry.
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In a referendum held on the same day as the first round of voting, Uruguayans rejected proposed constitutional amendments that would have created a national guard and mandated life sentences for such crimes as rape and the murder of children.
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MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) - Prosecutors called for life sentences for more than 40 Turkish soldiers on Monday at the start of their trial for attempting to assassinate President Tayyip Erdogan during last year's failed coup, according to the indictment obtained by Reuters.
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The harsh reality of the Three Strikes Law came to a head when in 2012 — over 20 years after the law passed — Californians voted overwhelmingly to scale back the law and limit the number of life sentences over minor offenses.
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We're told there's no specific threat on O.J.'s life but several inmates in the prison have life sentences "and nothing to lose" and may be "opportunists" looking to hurt or kill Simpson before he leaves to raise their own profile.
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Argentina has taken steps in recent years to address the issue — in 2012 the country introduced a femicide provision which includes life sentences for offenders found guilty, and years earlier the government passed a law geared at tackling the country's domestic violence problem.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - A state security court in Jordan on Monday sentenced one Syrian militant to death and handed life sentences to three others for their role in a suicide bombing attack on a Jordanian military border post that killed seven guards last year.
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Britain is regarded as a leader in global efforts to combat slavery, and passed the law in 2015 to introduce life sentences for traffickers, force companies to check their supply chains for forced labor, and protect people at risk of being enslaved.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - A Macedonian court sentenced 20013 ethnic Albanians to jail terms on Thursday, including seven given life sentences, after they were found guilty of plotting attacks and clashing with the police in a 2015 shootout in which 22 people were killed.
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"Building on Part 1, which documented the experience of the accused, in Part 2, we have chronicled the experience of the convicted and imprisoned, two men each serving life sentences for crimes they maintain they did not commit," Ricciardi and Demos said.
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ROME (Reuters) - A Rome court on Tuesday handed down eight life sentences for the murder of 193 Italian citizens in a conspiracy, known as Operation Condor, in which South American dictatorships hunted down and killed thousands of dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s.
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When Obama hasn't been busy fighting against the jobs-creating energy industry or unjustly preventing development on millions of acres of land, he's been pardoning or commuting the sentences of more than 22019,300 convicted criminals, including 395 who were serving life sentences.
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"If misery had a face or body or any type of appearance, than it would probably look like United States Penitentiary Hazelton," Andre Cooper, a man serving three life sentences in Maryland for racketeering, drug dealing, and homicide told VICE via email.
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After Alabama's all-male senate majority voted to force women to give birth against their will, their counterparts in Georgia went further still, arranging to institute effective life sentences for abortion providers, while placing women's bodies under strict and callous state surveillance.
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Mafia 'boss of bosses' Salvatore 'Toto' Riina has died in the hospital while serving multiple life sentences as the mastermind of a bloody strategy to assassinate Italian prosecutors and law enforcement trying to bring down the Cosa Nostra, Italian media reported Friday.
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It appears that the former commander in chief came across the article and reached out to the woman who was once serving three life sentences plus an additional 20 years for her role in her husband's cocaine distribution ring, USA Today reported Thursday.
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After the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles, Pennsylvania enacted a law requiring either a life sentence for juveniles under 15 who commit first-degree murder, or a sentence of at least 25 years to life imprisonment.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Seven Somali men accused of hijacking a French yacht in an assault in which its owner was killed and his wife abducted in the Arabian Sea four years ago appeared before a French court on Tuesday, all facing life sentences.
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Jesse Matthew, who is serving several life sentences in Virginia for the abduction and murder of two young women and a brutal attack on a third, had earlier left two colleges after sexual assault complaints that were never reported to the police.
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"Proximity to re-election makes judges more punitive — more likely to impose longer sentences, affirm death sentences and even override life sentences to impose death," a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law concluded last year.
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Of the women serving life sentences for murder in California, 72 percent were not the killers, according to the survey, which was conducted by Restore Justice, the Youth Justice Coalition and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, California groups that support criminal justice reform.
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They produced life sentences for Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, the brutal head of an interrogation center, and for the two current defendants, Mr. Nuon Chea and Mr. Khieu Samphan, who were found guilty in an earlier trial of crimes against humanity.
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Jutting appeared before the city's Court of Appeal in December to argue that he had not received a fair trial but judges on Friday upheld his two concurrent mandatory life sentences for torturing and killing two Indonesian women, Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih.
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To learn more, read this article by the filmmakers, Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega: When California voters amended the state's harsh three-strikes law in 2012, they ensured that nonviolent third offenses would no longer lead to life sentences.
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"The BOP does not want another high-profile inmate getting beat or stomped out by others who may hate Cohen," Andre Cooper, a man serving three life sentences at FCI Cumberland in Maryland for racketeering charges relating to drugs and murder, told VICE via email.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors are seeking long jail terms or life sentences for nine staff of a pro-Kurdish newspaper, including prize-winning novelist Asli Erdogan, on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization and harming national unity, state-run media said on Thursday.
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The leader of a tomb-raiding ring in China has been sentenced to death, while three of his cohorts were given life sentences for their role in a series of illegal excavations at historic sites and graves in the Hongshan cultural relics protection region.
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The judge, noting the "vicious and inhumane" nature of the killings sentenced Watts to the maximum sentence agreed to in the plea bargain, three concurrent life sentences without parole, as well as additional time for unlawful termination of a pregnancy and tampering with deceased bodies.
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"Building on Part One, which documented the experience of the accused, in Part 2, we have chronicled the experience of the convicted and imprisoned, two men each serving life sentences for crimes they maintain they did not commit," Ricciardi and Demos said in a statement.
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In 1993 at the age of 26, Metz was sentenced to serve three life sentences, plus another 20 years, for drug-related offenses in connection with her husband's cocaine trafficking ring, according to The Hechinger Report, which first reported on Metz's story earlier this month.
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"Two years in jail for four people killed is a grave injustice to the victims and their families who have been dealt life sentences because of one person's devastating decision to drink and drive," Mothers Against Drunk Driving said in a statement last week.
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The law has been lauded as a milestone in the global drive to end slavery for introducing life sentences for traffickers and forcing firms to outline their anti-slavery measures, but is under review over concerns that is failing to stay up to speed.
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MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Wednesday found 42 former soldiers guilty of trying to kill President Tayyip Erdogan during last year's failed coup, and handed most of them life sentences in the highest profile case related to the attempted putsch so far.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A convicted burglar who assaulted and raped women and children during a two-week rampage across Britain while wrongly free from jail was given 713 life sentences on Monday, with the judge saying he would never cease to be a danger to society.
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Hamed and his parents are each serving life sentences for killing his sisters — Zainab, 19953, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 — and Mohammad's first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, whose bodies were found in a Nissan Sentra at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in 2009.
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Hamed and his parents are each serving life sentences for killing his sisters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 — and Mohammad's first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, whose bodies were found in a Nissan Sentra at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in 2009.
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In court documents filed this week, attorneys for Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen, and Gavin Wright, say the men were influenced by Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric and Russian propaganda on social media and argue that life sentences against their clients would not deter others from committing similar crimes.
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Kessinger says she never saw Watts — who is now serving multiple life sentences without parole for the murders of wife Shanann, 34, and their daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3 — wearing his wedding ring, and said she was endeared by the fact that he was a father.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New Jersey man convicted of planting bombs in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood does not deserve multiple life sentences and should be able to further his education and see his family while spending the rest of his life in prison, his lawyer argued on Friday.
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But in Tennessee none of the 148 cases of people sentenced to life in prison as minors have been reviewed, and minors can still be effectively sentenced to life without parole, because of an existing rule that life sentences can only be reviewed every 51 years.
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Ashton additionally received two life sentences plus an additional 50 years for the attempted murders of his then-8-year-old brother, Landon, and his then-17-year-old sister, Alexis, who narrowly missed a bullet to her head as she hid under her bed sheets.
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He says he told Trump he was going to create a factory in Chicago called Larry's -- as in Larry Hoover, the Chicago gang leader who's serving 6 life sentences for murder -- and says he'll hire former inmates to manufacture the Make America Great hats, among other items.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor is seeking life sentences without parole for two prominent journalists on charges of assisting terrorists, according to a court document seen by Reuters, after they published video footage purporting to show the state intelligence agency helping to send weapons to Syria.
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She is serving two life sentences, plus an additional six years, for attacking and killing a regular who began shadowing her on his Harley, turning up at her local market and, when she moved to Los Angeles to get away from him, on her front porch.
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Two death row murder convictions were commuted to life sentences, then there was Mitchell Ray Campbell of Twin Falls, Idaho, who was pardoned on two separated convictions: the first, a cocaine distribution and filing a false tax return for which he received a 3-year sentence.
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It's been 113 years since the Atlanta Child Murders, the three-year period in which at least 28 Black children and adults were murdered in Atlanta, Georgia, but despite accused killer Wayne Williams currently serving two life sentences, many believe the case is far from solved.
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"Building on Part 1, which documented the experience of the accused, in Part 2, we have chronicled the experience of the convicted and imprisoned, two men each serving life sentences for crimes they maintain they did not commit," Ms. Ricciardi and Ms. Demos said in a statement.
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Given that we know most people simply age out of crime — one study of 200 elderly prisoners serving life sentences who were released in 2013 found a recidivism rate of just 85033 percent — most experts believe the continued incarceration of these people does not increase public safety.
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In Fatah, Marwan Barghouti, a popular figure among Palestinians who is serving five life sentences for murders in the second intifada, is leading a hunger strike in Israeli jails, now two weeks old, that some experts say is aimed at raising his credibility as a leader.
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Polls suggest that Mr. Barghouti, 57, is the most popular choice to replace Mr. Abbas, 82, even though he is serving five life sentences after he was convicted of being a leader of the second intifada and of directing attacks that led to the killings of Israelis.
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Related: Kim Kardashian West has helped free 17 inmates in 90 days CNN learned last month the media mogul has been working behind the scenes for months to help pay the legal fees of 17 first-time nonviolent drug offenders in order to have their life sentences commuted.
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Related: Our New Anti-Terror Law Is No Worse Than Yours, Says China The families of Wang Quanzhang and Li Shuyun, a lawyer and apprentice lawyer at the firm, were also notified of their arrests on the same charges, Liu said, which carry possible life sentences in severe cases.
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Most were accused of nothing more than being a member of a local gang, yet still faced serious prison time — including possible life sentences for 25 of them — because prosecutors used "conspiracy" charges that held them responsible for murders and assaults their neighbors and friends were suspected of committing.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that its 2012 decision banning mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile killers must be applied retroactively, granting a new chance at release for hundreds of inmates serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for murders they committed in their youth.
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For her latest photo series, "Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences," Bennett stepped inside the Bedford Hills and Taconic correctional facilities in New York and sat down with 20 women to learn what it's like to be sentenced to life and, in many cases, repeatedly denied parole.
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" Another study, conducted at Marquette University, posits that life sentences may provide more opportunities for co-victims to heal, that they "may prefer the finality of a life sentence and the obscurity into which the defendant will quickly fall, to the continued uncertainty and publicity of the death penalty.
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Movies about murderous cult leader Charles Manson, ranked by criticsA paranormal investigator just bought the infamous Los Angeles home where the Charles Manson murders took place 50 years agoCharles Manson was sentenced to 9 life sentences for orchestrating 7 gruesome murders with his cult 'family' — here's his life story
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Judge Mitchell Kaplan imposed two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole on Teixeira on Friday at Suffolk Superior Court shortly after the 33-year-old was found guilty of the May 2017 murders of Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr. Richard Field, according to the Boston Globe.
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A statement by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he had died at a hospital near the state prison in Corcoran, in the south-central part of the state, where for almost a half-century he had been serving 25 concurrent life sentences for first-degree murder.
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