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

Words nearby life imprisonment

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Examples from the Web for life imprisonment

Life-imprisonment, under the highest moral influences, becomes life-long by and only by the continued resistance of the criminal.
A Plea for the Criminal|James Leslie Allan Kayll
Life-imprisonment has taken its place; without pardoning power anywhere, even when the plea of insanity has been sustained.
1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century|Henry Hartshorne
Kolya, because of extreme youth, was punished by life-imprisonment.
Atlantic Narratives|Mary Antin
To make such a concession was to pass upon it a sentence of life-imprisonment!
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair

Why should not the life-imprisonment of the heretic safeguard the faithful as well as his death?
Medival Heresy and the Inquisition|A. S. Turberville