life imprisonment
Sentence without release
Life imprisonment is a criminal sentence requiring a person to remain in prison for the rest of their natural life or for an indefinitely long period.
In practice, many life sentences include the possibility of parole after a minimum number of years, while others are designated as life without parole, meaning the person will never be released.
He received life imprisonment for the murder.
The sentence is typically reserved for the most serious crimes, such as murder or terrorism, and serves in many jurisdictions as an alternative to the death penalty.
Conditional early release
- maximum securityHighest-level prison classification
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- correctional facilityInstitution housing convicted offenders
cellblock · inmate · convict · warden · prison · jail · detention · custody
parole
Conditional early release
- maximum securityHighest-level prison classification
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
correctional facility · cellblock · inmate · convict · warden · prison · jail · detention · custody · rehabilitation
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- sentencingprison sentence, death row, consecutive sentences, probation, mandatory minimum
- war crimescrimes against humanity, Nuremberg, war crimes tribunals, prisoner abuse, war criminals
life imprisonmentacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
freedom · time served · suspended sentence · discharge · release
life imprisonmentfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · exoneration · emancipation · independence · pardon
life imprisonmentdeath penalty
Legal execution for crimes
capital punishment · execution · death sentence · the chair · lethal injection
life, living, lifetime, lifestyle, afterlife, lifelong, imprisoned, livelihood, lifeline