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 --
The ordinary people think that life imprisonment should mean imprisonment for life, and nothing else whatsoever.
There might also be the case of a man sentenced to life imprisonment who was not mentally very stable and yet was not certifiable.
The question is whether nine or ten years of imprisonment, representing life imprisonment, is sufficient to frighten the criminal.
I would, therefore, much rather discuss these issues at the appropriate time, when we can go into all the questions affecting life imprisonment.
It would be quite wrong to fix a definite time as meaning life imprisonment.
If we do not have capital punishment, we must have life imprisonment, but that has failed.
Separate figures are not available for those prisoners serving sentences of life imprisonment and those serving determinate sentences.
In 1959, of 75 persons convicted of the offence of manslaughter where a maximum sentence of life imprisonment applied, 64 were sentenced to imprisonment.
