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NEWS ABOUT: life sentence

life sentence stories: 14 news summaries

Ark. Man Gets Life
for TV Anchor's Murder

Killer spared death penalty in Pressly's slaying

Nov 13, 09 1:21 AM CST
(Newser) - An Arkansas man has been sentenced to life without parole for the savage rape and murder of Anne Pressly, a morning news anchor for CNN affiliate KATV. Pressley, 26, died 5 days after she was found beaten unconscious in her home last year. Curtis Lavelle Vance's defense team told the... More »

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murder • news anchor • life sentence • Anne Pressly

SUPREME COURT DOCKET

 Teens Sentenced to Life: 
 Cruel and Unusual? 

High court will address sentences for kid convicts who didn't kill

Nov 8, 09 11:05 AM CST
(AP) - Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13. Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life sentence by a judge who told the teenager he had thrown his life away.... More »

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prison • cruel and unusual punishment • US Supreme Court • teenager • life sentence

Lifer Seeks Better Life
on Death Row

Killer eyes amenities that come with
capital punishment

Oct 28, 09 3:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Living on death row looks like a better deal than dying as a lifer, convicted killer Billy Joe Johnson told a California jury yesterday. "You get out of your confined cell a little more," said Johnson, whose trial has moved to the penalty phase after he was found... More »

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Iraq • California • prison • sentencing • death row • death sentence • life sentence

(Newser) - Almost 10% of prisoners incarcerated in the US are serving life sentences, an all-time high, the New York Times reports. In California, which maintains the nation’s highest prison population, that number is 20%, says a report from the Sentencing Project, a group that wants to eliminate life-without-parole sentences.... More »

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prison • United States • convict • criminal • prisoner • incarceration • life sentence

 Madoff's 
 'Prison 
 Hell' Not 
 So Hellish 

But he is in the doghouse with Ruth

Jul 20, 09 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Post got a little excited on today's front page, promising a look "Inside Madoff’s Prison Hell." But that turns out to be a bit of wishful thinking: “Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the... More »

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prison • jail • Ponzi scheme • life sentence • Bernard Madoff • Ruth Madoff

ANALYSIS

 No Cushy 'Camp Fed' for Madoff 


Jun 30, 09 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff’s high profile and long sentence will likely land him in a medium- or high-security prison, Bloomberg reports. Though previous white-collar criminals have spent terms at federal prison “camps,” any sentence longer than 10 years makes an inmate ineligible for that cushy treatment. Insiders also say... More »

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federal prison • Bureau of Prisons • Ponzi scheme • penitentiary • life sentence • Bernard Madoff • solitary confinement • prison camp

(Newser) - A federal judge threw the book at Bernie Madoff today, sentencing him to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed by law in the $65 billion scam. He called Madoff’s crimes “staggering,” and chided him for not doing all he could to help investigators. He added that... More »

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sentencing • Ponzi scheme • life sentence • Bernard Madoff

 Madoff Lawyer: 
 12 Years Is Enough 

Sorkin says court must resist 'mob vengeance'

Jun 23, 09 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff’s lawyer says his client shouldn’t be jailed for life for his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, Reuters reports, urging the sentencing judge in a letter not to heed calls from victims for “mob vengeance.” A 12-year sentence would be enough, though 15-20 years wouldn’t... More »

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court • Ponzi scheme • sentence • life sentence • Bernard Madoff • letter • Ira Sorkin

 Pregnant Brit Gets  
 Life Sentence in Laos 

Convicted of trafficking 1.5 pounds of heroin

Jun 3, 09 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pregnant British woman convicted of drug trafficking in Laos last year has been handed a life sentence, AFP reports. Samantha Orobator, 20, who was nabbed while trying to board a plane to Thailand, had been found found guilty of trafficking 1.5 pounds of heroin, said a UK embassy... More »

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pregnancy • drugs • prison • crime • heroin • Laos • drug trafficking • Britain • life sentence • Samantha Orobator

 Remorseful Fritzl: I Want 
 Only the Hardest Punishment 

Daughter's testimony convinced him to confess, incest dad says

Mar 27, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl describes intense feelings of remorse in the first interview since his trial, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, who abruptly switched his plea to guilty in the middle of the proceedings, said his decision was prompted by hearing his daughter describe in court how he imprisoned and habitually raped her:... More »

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psychiatry • abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • imprisonment • life sentence • Howard Stern Grid

 Fritzl 
 Heads 
 to Plush 
 Psych Cell 

He'll have color TV, computer and maybe a pet in unit of Viennese hospital

Mar 20, 09 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Austrian monster dad Josef Fritzl will spend his days in far plusher accommodations than his daughter, who was repeatedly raped in her cellar prison for 24 years. Fritzl has been sentenced to life and remanded to a secure psychiatric unit of a Viennese hospital because of what the judge called... More »

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rape • Austria • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • life sentence • psychiatric unit • Howard Stern Grid

 Fritzl Gets 
 Life Sentence 

Incest dad found guilty on all charges

Mar 19, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in a secure psychiatric facility, the BBC reports. Jurors found Fritzl guilty on charges that included rape, incest, murder, and enslavement after he locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, raped her... More »

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murder • rape • Austria • guilty • enslavement • incest • verdict • Josef Fritzl • life sentence

'Baby Grace' Mother
Gets Life

Trenor found guilty of  murder in daughter's beating death

Feb 3, 09 1:44 AM CST
(Newser) - It took a jury less than two hours to find Kimberly Dawn Trenor guilty of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, the Houston Chronicle reports. Prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty, meaning Trenor, 20, will serve life without parole. "She will die in prison with... More »

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Texas • homicide • toddler • Baby Grace • Royce Clyde Zeigler II • Kimberly Dawn Trenor • Riley Ann Sawyers • beatings • life sentence

 Joe Cool Killer 
 Put Away for Life 

High seas murderer gets 5 life sentences after pleading guilty

Oct 14, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge sentenced Kirby Archer to five life sentences today after he pleaded guilty to killing four people aboard a charter boat off Miami’s coast last year. The 36-year-old was ratted out by accomplice Guillermo Zarabozo, who faces a retrial, reports the Miami Herald. Prosecutors say the convict,... More »

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Cuba • Miami • murder • conviction • charter boat • life sentence

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