life sentence

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a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of their life in prison.

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How to use life sentence in a sentence

Under California law in effect in 1968, a life sentence with parole would have made Sirhan eligible for release after seven years.
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of Robert F. Kennedy assassination, seeks parole with no opposition from prosecutors|Tom Jackman|August 25, 2021|Washington Post
By that time, she’d been given a life sentence after an attempted robbery, because it was her third offense.
The Incarcerated Women Risking Their Lives to Fight Wildfires|smurguia|August 21, 2021|Outside Online
He sits on the Board of Lifers, a collection of five men who aim to represent the roughly 5,000 prisoners currently serving life sentences in Pennsylvania.
When Your Body Counts But Your Vote Does Not: How Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Political Representation|Madeleine Carlisle|July 1, 2021|Time
If successful, she could be acquitted of some or all of the charges against her, rather than face a mandatory life sentence — and could break legal ground for trafficking victims accused of crimes.
Chrystul Kizer, sex trafficking victim accused of killing alleged abuser, wins appeal in Wisconsin|Jessica Contrera|June 3, 2021|Washington Post

In this case, I think they were unanimous to get a life sentence.
He Robbed a Taco Joint With a Toy Water Gun for $264. He Got Life in Prison.|Kate Briquelet|May 31, 2021|The Daily Beast
Brown had been serving a life sentence; McCollum had been on Death Row.
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities|Elizabeth Picciuto|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the law explicitly stated that a resulting life sentence was to be without even the possibility of parole.
How the North Carolina GOP Made a Wrongfully Convicted Man a Death Row Scapegoat|Michael Daly|September 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Benedetto Ceraulo, the Sicilian hitman, was given a life sentence.
Crime of Fashion: Gucci Killer to Go Free|Barbie Latza Nadeau|May 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They were “99 percent” sure of a victory and hoped for a life sentence.
France Convicts Rwanda Genocidaire|Nina Strochlic|March 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
First: we are not committed to a life sentence—nothing is really irrevocable, not even marriage (though I used to think so).
Felicia’s Letter to Leonard Bernstein: ‘You Are a Homosexual and May Never Change’|Felicia Bernstein|October 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Upon my return I went to the capital to see the Governor, and asked him to grant the boy a life sentence in prison.
Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love|Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
You will see from this that we received a life sentence on the New York Commission.
Proceedings, Third National Conference Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents|Various
She felt an impulse to scream, to run to the railing and leap overboard, to thwart that life-sentence in any possible way.
What Will People Say?|Rupert Hughes
I believe he was afterwards taken to a gaol in the Isle of Wight, but I do not know if his life-sentence is still in force.
South African Memories|Lady Sarah Wilson
And he felt now that Binhart could never do it, that a life sentence there would be worse than a life sentence to “stir.”
The Shadow|Arthur Stringer