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life imprisonment

n
(Law) (in Britain) an indeterminate sentence always given for murder and as a maximum sentence in several other crimes. There is no remission, although the Home Secretary may order the prisoner's release on licence
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Noun1.life imprisonment - a sentence of imprisonment until deathlife imprisonment - a sentence of imprisonment until death
captivity, immurement, incarceration, imprisonment - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
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cadena perpetua
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life imprisonment

nergastolo
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Rising in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life imprisonment when the latter said:
Everhard and eleven others, among whom were Theodore Donnelson and Matthew Kent, received life imprisonment. The remaining forty received sentences varying from thirty to forty-five years; while Arthur Simpson, referred to in the Manuscript as being ill of typhoid fever at the time of the explosion, received only fifteen years.
The unfortunate Gluck received life imprisonment in San Quentin, while the newspapers and the public held that it was a miscarriage of justice--that the death penalty should have been visited upon him.
He said that you had been convicted on circumstantial evidence; that was why you had got life imprisonment instead of hanging; that you had always stoutly maintained your innocence; that you were the black sheep of the Maryland Dettmars; that they moved heaven and earth for your pardon; that your prison conduct was most exemplary; that he was prosecuting attorney at the time you were convicted; that after you had served seven years he yielded to your family's plea and pardoned you; and that in his own mind existed a doubt that you had killed McSweeny."
Trial court awarded death sentence to Muhammad Hanif alias Kali and life imprisonment to Muhammad Akram.
ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court on Monday acquitted life sentence convict Aamir Sohail while maintained the life imprisonment of other accused Muhammad Khan.
Because courts consider that life imprisonment under section 57 of Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred as PPC) means, imprisonment for 25 years.
Summary: Jodhpur (Rajasthan) [India], Aug 20 (ANI): The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in a petition moved by self-styled godman Asaram Bapu challenging the life imprisonment sentence imposed on him for raping a minor girl.
Lahore -- A three-member Supreme Court bench on Friday heard and disposed of an appeal filed in 2010 against life imprisonment of a convict.
Sialkot -- A local court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment and other punishments to a convict of murder case.
Haroonur Rashid was sentenced to life imprisonment 12 times in 12 different cases of murder.
ISLAMABAD -- Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa has decided to form a larger bench to define the quantum of life imprisonment in Pakistan.
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