Sentences with phrase «life prison sentence»
His lawyer has said Cruz will plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence, rather than possibly facing the death penalty.
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Cruz's public defender has said he will plead guilty if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table, which would mean a life prison sentence.
He faces the death penalty but his lawyers say he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence.
He was later handed a whole - life prison sentence for her murder.
He faces the death penalty if convicted, but his public defender Melisa McNeill has said he would plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.
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He was sentenced to life in prison.
«We put this peacenik deadhead in prison for the rest of his life,» she added, «and to me, it just shows how off - the - charts crazy we became about drug sentencing in the»80s and»90s.»
An eccentric Danish inventor has been sentenced to life in prison for killing the Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
Tyler — a Grateful Dead fan with a history of mental illness — was sentenced to life in prison for selling LSD to a police informant.
While at the prison, the helicopter picked up five convicts who were each serving multiple life sentences for murder and other violent cro, es.
Florida, on the other hand, is relaxing its mandatory prison sentences in light of the ruling, throwing out every mandatory life sentence given to inmates who committed their crimes while a juvenile.
US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.
While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Zhou was later expelled from the party and convicted of bribery and abuse of power, and was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.
Late last year a driver in Delhi had been sentenced to life in prison after he had been found guilty of raping a female passenger.
Lynette «Squeaky» Fromme was sentenced to life in prison after her attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975.
Both Avery and Dassey are currently serving life sentences in prison following their convictions in connection with the 2006 murder of Teresa Halbach.
It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.
Some expect Sun to receive life in prison or an even heavier sentence.
If harsh, gratuitous trash - talking were a crime, Chanel creative director and head designer Karl Lagerfeld would be serving multiple life sentences in a maximum - security prison.
(Like many Playboy cover girls, she was a live wire, ultimately getting sentenced to six years in prison for cocaine trafficking.
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One of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history, she was sentenced to life in prison for the murders in 2017.
Ross Ulbricht, the 31 - year - old convicted mastermind behind deep web market Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison today.
Madoff is currently serving what will effectively be a life sentence in prison.
The Uber driver, who had a previous record that included rape and molestation, was sentenced to life in prison.
He would be sentenced to life in prison in late 2015.
He was sentenced in 1993 to life in prison for smuggling 22 tons of cocaine concealed in fence posts and frozen broccoli for the Cali cartel.
A man who said he was on a «jihad» to avenge U.S. policy in the Middle East has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a college student in New Jersey.
Life in prison without the possiblity of parole is a just sentence following conviction.
Even without life extension, private prison firms could one day develop drugs that make time pass more slowly, so that an inmate's 10 - year sentence feels like an eternity.
Who would have imagined that today I would be writing freely, praying freely, breathing freely, standing on free soil, while Zhou, once nicknamed China's «security tsar,» would be sentenced to life in prison for corruption by his political enemies?
Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith (born September 26, 1971) is an American woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering her children.
(CNN)- As he begins serving a life sentence in the Texas State Prison system, Warren Jeffs still maintains titular control over his estimated 10,000 fundamentalist followers in Arizona, Utah and Texas.
One of them is Toronto megachurch pastor Hyeon - Soo Lim, who was sentenced to life in prison this year after making hundreds of humanitarian trips to the poverty - stricken country.
It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.
Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion of honor, a notion of honor that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.»
In Pakistan you can be sentenced to death or life in prison for disrespecting some mythical deity but a cleric can solicit murder in front of hundreds of witnesses and he's ok.
Today's ruling decided that Miller v. Alabama can be applied retroactively to minors who had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2012, now giving prisoners the chance to negotiate shorter sentences or even parole.
This case concluded that sentencing a juvenile to life in prison was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban of cruel and unusual punishment, saying children had «diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change.»
When he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, I was glad.
Forty states enacted truth - in - sentencing statutes, which require felons to serve as much as a full 85 percent of their prison terms without any chance of parole; life sentences now truly mean life.
Usually the bad cop starts questioning the suspect, and in the process gets a little unhinged and starts to threaten the suspect with death, torture, or a life sentence in prison.
Two years ago, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said the life sentence wasn't valid, but prosecutors still intended to retry him and he stayed in prison.
You first do not see the inherint evil in eternal suffering for a minor transgression (namely disbelief), add on top of that your willing acceptance for a life sentence in prison for jaywalking (with the analogy given), well lets just say I was blown away.
San Angelo, Texas (CNN)- Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison plus 20 years for sexually assaulting two girls he claimed were his «spiritual wives.»
Rev Dapo has many testimonies to share of lives changed: 18 - year - old Sam was convicted of burglary and sentenced to four years in prison.
The jury heard how Cornick pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum tariff of 20 years.