Sentences with phrase «serving life sentences in prison»

Both Avery and Dassey are currently serving life sentences in prison following their convictions in connection with the 2006 murder of Teresa Halbach.

A German nurse currently serving a life sentence in prison for murdering six patients may have killed 84 more, making him one of the country's worst ever serial killers, police and prosecutors said Monday.

She is the daughter of strong - willed immigrants and identifies closely with her father; a political activist serving a life sentence in prison.

Not exact matches

He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.

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.

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.

Madoff is currently serving what will effectively be a life sentence in prison.

(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.

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.

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.

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)-- Israel's government approved an extraordinary deal Tuesday night - agreeing to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison, including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis, in exchange for a single slender young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole from a US prison on Friday after having served 30 years in jail of a life sentence.

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, adviser to Osama bin Laden The Kuwaiti - born cleric was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 after being found guilty of serving as al - Qaeda's main mouthpiece and recruiter, and conspiring to kill Americans.

Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) is a Manhattan drug dealer who has to confront the choices he has made in life on his last day before serving a seven - year prison sentence.

Ever indebted to Lou for saving his life in prison, while serving a sentence -LSB-...]

After Emily's husband Martin (Channing Tatum) is released from prison having served a sentence for participating in some insider trading, she finds herself again unable to cope with the emotional rollercoaster that is her life.

Blessed with the «ability to fly, invincibility and great hair,» the boy that would later grow up to be Metro Man (Brad Pitt channeling Elvis) proves to be his arch nemesis from an early age, while hapless Metromind winds up in prison serving 85 life sentences and decides to embrace his evil side... in the most good - natured way imaginable of course.

While serving that sentence at the state prison in Caledonia, a maximum security facility in the eastern part of the state, he learned of and enrolled in a newly started program called «New Leash on Life.»

Black is the Day, Black is the Night is a conceptual exploration into the many facets of human identity using notions of time, accumulation, memory and distance through personal correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the U.S., all of which had served between 13 - 26 years at point of contact.

Sable Elyse Smith's interest in prisons is tied to her own father, who is serving a life sentence.

On the third strike, you may be in prison for the rest of your life, ineligible for parole until you have served at least 25 years of your sentence.

Jones was ultimately found guilty of first degree murder at trial and has spent the last 32 years in prison serving a life sentence.

Yesterday's jury verdict recommending that Moussaoui serve life in prison without parole rather than the death sentence produced mixed reactions, both on the severity of the sentence and whether Moussaoui or the United States had «won.»

Exceptions would be made in certain cases, such as when the couple has been living apart for five years or more, or when one partner is serving a prison sentence.

«Bill seeks at least 35 years for young killers»: Today's edition of The Boston Globe contains an article that begins, «A group of state lawmakers is proposing legislation that would require juvenile murderers to serve at least 35 years in prison before being eligible for parole, in direct response to a Supreme Judicial Court ruling that struck down life sentences without the possibility of parole for young killers.»

The 64 - year - old inmate is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole in connection with the fatal beating of an elderly man in December 1994.

In return for their co-operation, the tariff of their life sentences was reduced by 75 %, which meant they each served three years in prisoIn return for their co-operation, the tariff of their life sentences was reduced by 75 %, which meant they each served three years in prisoin prison.

After the Legislature killed a Bay Area lawmaker's bill to give juveniles serving life sentences a chance at future parole, a state appeals court took a step in the other direction Wednesday by overturning the 84 - year prison term of a 16 - year - old gang member convicted of robbery and carjacking.