Crossword clues for life sentence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context legal lang=zh) A sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life.
WordNet
n. a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard" [syn: life]
Wikipedia
Life Sentence is an EP released on September 1, 2003 by Epicure.
Usage examples of "life sentence".
The Crown would leave nothing undone to convict him, and the already crowded prison was re-crammed with half a dozen life sentence men, brought up from Port Arthur to identify the prisoners.
Bob Yeakel says it's a life sentence, but isn't there something you can do?
Her defense attorneys had saved her from a mandatory life sentence.
A guy serving a life sentence could make parole and be out on the street in a lot less time than a guy on Death Row could run out of appeals.
In other cases, prosecutors complained that plea bargains became impossible on the third offense, since a life sentence without possibility of parole resulted, regardless of the plea.
Haunted by grief, she had finished the investigation, and now the politician was serving a life sentence without parole for both his drug dealings and his part in B.
That was the righting of William Habron, who was now serving the third year of his life sentence for the murder of Constable Cock at Whalley Range.
Apparently the evidence against him was strong and he expected a life sentence.
Specifically, did she vote for the life sentence, or did she want death?