life sentence

noun

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

Example Sentences

Under California law in effect in 1968, a life sentence with parole would have made Sirhan eligible for release after seven years.

From Washington Post

By that time, she’d been given a life sentence after an attempted robbery, because it was her third offense.

From 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.

From 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.

From Washington Post

In this case, I think they were unanimous to get a life sentence.

From The Daily Beast

Brown had been serving a life sentence; McCollum had been on Death Row.

From The Daily Beast

But the law explicitly stated that a resulting life sentence was to be without even the possibility of parole.

From The Daily Beast

Benedetto Ceraulo, the Sicilian hitman, was given a life sentence.

From The Daily Beast

They were “99 percent” sure of a victory and hoped for a life sentence.

From The Daily Beast

First: we are not committed to a life sentence—nothing is really irrevocable, not even marriage (though I used to think so).

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

You will see from this that we received a life sentence on the New York Commission.

From Project Gutenberg

She felt an impulse to scream, to run to the railing and leap overboard, to thwart that life-sentence in any possible way.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

And he felt now that Binhart could never do it, that a life sentence there would be worse than a life sentence to “stir.”

From Project Gutenberg