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life imprisonment
noun
- (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
Example Sentences
Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the presidency has said.
A Russian national has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Finnish court for committing war crimes in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The pair were sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday.
Judge Geraint Walters previously said the only sentence the courts could pass was life imprisonment, describing it as a "frenzied attack on a woman in a towel in her own home".
All of the bills, however, would open abortion patients up to the death penalty, life imprisonment or other severe sentences if convicted.
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