Life imprisonment has been effectively abolished in a number of countries and India should follow this progressive trend. (Faizan Mustafa is vice-chancellor, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad ...

Unless you were watching C-Span2 Tuesday, you may not have noticed that the Senate voted to keep a controversial provision in the defense spending bill that ...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced Olaniyi Anu and Alobaloye Abidemi to life imprisonment for gang rape and two years' imprisonment for conspiracy involving a 13-year-old ...

She Vomited in Court When Shown Photos of Son She Starved and Tortured. Weeks Later, She Got Life in Prison. Shanda Vander Ark was found guilty of murder in the starvation death of her 15-year-old son ...

A life sentence does not always mean a lifetime behind bars. Under Thai law, a person sentenced to life imprisonment can apply for a review of their sentence after serving 10 years.

Spencer Pearson, 20, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday. handout Pearson's father blamed the attacked at traumatic brain injuries he sustained as a high school football star.

Elijah Jamal Craven was 17 years old when he was charged in the murder. (KWTX) Prosecutors Ryan Calvert and Christi Hunting Horse are expected to ask the judge to give Craven a life prison term.

A haggard-looking Charlie Adelson, 47, was hit with a life sentence after he was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation last month in the 2014 shooting death of Dan Markel.

BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between ...

Vatican City, Sep 16, 2019 / 07:48 am. In an audience with penitentiary staff and prison chaplains, Pope Francis said Saturday that sentencing prisoners to life imprisonment diminishes their ...

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v.Mississippi that when sentencing juvenile defendants to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, judges need not make a separate factual finding ...

Washington D.C., Nov 30, 2019 / 16:59 pm. For the first time in more than three decades, a majority of Americans favor life imprisonment without parole over the death penalty as a punishment for ...