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1Life imprisonment — or life incarceration is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime, often for most or even all of the criminal s remaining life, but in fact for a period which varies between jurisdictions: many countries have a maximum possible period of… …
2life imprisonment — ► NOUN ▪ a long term of imprisonment (rarely the whole of a person s life), which (in the UK) is now the only sentence for murder and the maximum for any crime …
3History of life imprisonment — In the history of life imprisonment or life incarceration, where all or most of a person s remaining life is spent imprisoned, its purpose has chiefly been as an alternative to the death penalty or exile. The phrase life without parole is… …
4Life imprisonment in England and Wales — Criminal procedure Criminal trials and convictions …
5life imprisonment — noun a sentence of imprisonment until death • Hypernyms: ↑captivity, ↑imprisonment, ↑incarceration, ↑immurement * * * life imprisonment UK US noun [uncountable] a punishment in which someone is sent to prison for the rest of their life Thesaurus …
6life imprisonment — sentence which condemns a person to prison for the rest of his/her life …
7life imprisonment — noun a long term of imprisonment (rarely the whole of a person s life), which (in the UK) is now the only sentence for murder and the maximum for any crime …
8Sentence capitale — Peine de mort Application de la peine de mort dans le monde      Abolie pour tous les crimes …
9Imprisonment for public protection — In the United Kingdom,[clarification needed] Indeterminate Public Protection prison sentences (also known as Imprisonment for Public Protection or an IPP) are a form of indeterminate sentence.[1][2] They are intended to protect the public against …
10sentence — sen·tence 1 / sent əns, ənz/ n [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1: a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a… …
