Sentences with phrase «without parole for»

By 2015, more than 2,230 people in the United States were serving life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles, according to data compiled by the Phillips Black Project, a nonprofit law practice that collected information on all 50 states.

Under the original second - degree murder convictions, Jordan and Magoon had been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a minimum of 17 years.

This past fall, the ACLU released its report «A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses», documenting thousands of cases across the country of individuals serving life without parole for nonviolent offenses, mostly for nonviolent drug offenses:

Intrigued, Sanders pulled information on Vega, who was sentenced in 2011 to life without parole for a gang - related murder.

«Prison folklore tells us that Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot used his executive powers to sentence Pep to life without parole for killing his wife's cherished cat,» the website says, adding that prison records, including Pep being assigned his own inmate number (C - 2559), support the story.

Speak Out: How should states deal with a Supreme Court ruling on mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles?

How should states deal with a Supreme Court ruling on mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles?

Sweat, 34, was sentenced to life without parole for killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy on July 4, 2002.

Sweat was serving a sentence of life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy in Broome County in 2002.

Before the manhunt, Sweat was already serving a sentence of life without parole for murdering a sheriff's deputy.

He is already serving life without parole because of a Niagara County Court conviction for the murders, but he and Pirk face mandatory federal sentences of life without parole for the murders because the jury found they were part of a racketeering conspiracy.

Many years after Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones were assassinated, New York State law was finally changed to permit the sentence of life without parole for people convicted of cop killings.

Most New Yorkers recognize that it was Senator Skelos» leadership that allowed us to enact a property tax cap, eliminate the MTA payroll tax for thousands of businesses and all schools, rightsize state government, expand the DNA databank to help prosecutors fight crime, mandate life without parole for anyone who kills a first responder and increase penalties for criminals who use illegal guns.

, the Olympics bomber who spent five years on the lam, before he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for bombing a women's clinic here in 1998?

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.

They have been discussing the case of 62 - year - old Alice Marie Johnson, who has been serving a life sentence without parole for her role facilitating communications for a cocaine ring in the early 1990s.

But the folks who sell drugs on the streets shouldn't be getting life sentences without parole for drug offenses, either.

Not exact matches

For Alice Marie Johnson, a 62 - year - old nonviolent drug offender serving a life sentence without parole.

A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.

And Nichols, having narrowly missed a death sentence, is serving a life sentence without opportunity for parole.

Before a judge sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing two young children she had cared for, the former nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, spoke in open court for the first time since the trial began and begged for forgiveness.

Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole following his conviction in Broome County for one count of Murder 1st Degree after he caused the death of a Broome County Sheriff's Deputy on July 4, 2002.

The former Manhattan nanny convicted of murder for fatally stabbing two children was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Lawyers for the Uzbek man charged in the truck attack on a crowded Manhattan bike path that killed eight people on Halloween said that their client would plead guilty and accept life imprisonment without parole if prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Cuomo also said from day one he expected state lawmakers would be making technical changes to the law which also ensures background checks for gun buyers, tougher criminal penalties for illegal gun use and a mandatory life without parole sentence for killing a first responder.

Regarding the punishment that accused Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should face if found guilty of the attack, 59 percent of those surveyed replied that he should be executed, while 35 percent responded that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the chance for parole.

Ned Rifle picks up four years after the events of Fay Grim, during which Ned has found God while living with a devoutly Christian family, Fay has been incarcerated for life without parole, and Henry has, well, revealing where he's been surely counts as a spoiler, but thirsty fans of the trilogy will feel quenched.

The trial judge imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for 14 years.

Ellacott was sentenced to life without parole eligibility for seven years and a lifetime supervision order.

By an 8 to 4 vote, the Alabama jury recommended a sentence of life imprisonment without parole rather than the death penalty for the defendant.

Such requirements are mediated through the practices of the parole board: it may be that a parole board would not consider a person for parole without a showing of contrition.

That honor goes to Justice Sotomayor's statement respecting the denial of certiorari in Campbell v. Ohio, which suggests importing more of the Eighth Amendment's procedural protections for the death penalty to life without parole sentencing.

«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 state prison term for driving during a period of suspension for a second DWI / DUI is 180 days without any opportunity for parole.

The penalty if convicted is life imprisonment without parole eligibility for a minimum of 10 years, and potentially 25 years.

He was convicted and sentenced to life without eligibility for parole for 10 years.

It is time for California, and our nation as a whole, to take the Supreme Court's decision to its next logical step and join the rest of the world by revisiting inflexible life - without - parole sentences for young offenders.

Life imprisonment without parole, whether or not it is a mandatory sentence for any give crime, raises issues of its own.

Consecutive life sentences may leave you ineligible for parole longer than concurrent life sentences, or may force «life without parole» even if each individual crime was one where the maximum sentence included the possibility of parole.

The existence of measures to allow and encourage a person servicing a sentence of imprisonment for public protection imposed under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003), s 225 to progress is as inherent in the justification for his continued detention as the Parole Board reviews themselves; without them detention falls to be condemned as unlawful as if there were no such reviews at all.

Thus the existence of measures to allow and encourage the IPP prisoner to progress was as inherent in the justification for his continued detention as are the Parole Board reviews themselves; and without them that detention fell to be condemned as unlawful as sure as if there were no such reviews.

A full psychological assessment is prepared for a Parole Board hearing where release is a possibility; is it too outrageous to suggest that an experienced psychologist would get a better idea of a prisoner's risk without him or her having learned on an offending behaviour course what sort of answers they are seeking?

In November 2005, with his civil suit still pending, he was arrested for the murder of a Wisconsin photographer and in 2007 was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

This resulted into arrest and conviction which incarcerated responsible criminal for 25 years without parole.