0 the punishment of being put in prison for a very long time without an arranged time for release or, in the US, until death
Accordingly, the court directed that the death sentences be replaced by sentences of life imprisonment.
The recommendation to mercy and the custom of commuting those rare death sentences handed down to female felons to life imprisonment reinforced women's inferiority.
When he returned to his home country in order to distribute his work, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1881.
They risk life imprisonment or worse, simply because their religion is different from that of the ruling power.
On conviction, the maximum sentence available to the court for these offences is life imprisonment.
A person convicted of robbery with violence may, under the present law, be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Among those serving life imprisonment there will then be many more men with a latent tendency to violence.
In 1959, of 75 persons convicted of the offence of manslaughter where a maximum sentence of life imprisonment applied, 64 were sentenced to imprisonment.
