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life imprisonment

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Noun1.life imprisonmentlife 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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life imprisonment n → cadena perpetua
life imprisonment n → prison f à vie;
(Law) → réclusion f à perpétuité
life imprisonment life n → lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe f
life imprisonment n → ergastolo
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Rising in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life imprisonment when the latter said:
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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.
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