life-sentence

The penalty was fashioned as a partially suspended life-sentence, meaning the governor would have to sign off on parole, according to attorneys.

Teen gets 25 years for shovel murder Dan Morse 2010

The life-sentence will be appealed in higher courts, which could be a long-drawn out episode.

Betwa Sharma: Life Sentence for Indian Activist Shocks Nation Betwa Sharma 2011

But it measures out a life-sentence for possession of 10 grams or more of illegal drugs.

China Puts Off Execution of 3 Philippine Nationals 2011

I completely agree about the life-sentence we give former convicts.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Crime and Recession 2009

This was in 1978, and he plea-bargained a potential life-sentence down to a few years by giving away the names of his suppliers, and got out on parole 28 months later.

Hollywood's 15 Worst Kept Secrets | Manolith 2010

That was the last thing that psychiatrists, with their life-sentence diagnoses, could offer.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Chester complained that Cambridge's upscale, vanilla lifestyle would condemn him to a life-sentence of smug liberal orthodoxy.

Richard M. Benjamin: Drama in the People's Republic of Cambridge: Boston Has Two Faces 2009

And those generous student loans that can be partially re-paid through community and professional service instead of graduating from college with a life-sentence of debt servitude?

REJECTING TAPEWORM ECONOMICS AND ITS WAR ON FAMILIES 2007

I condemn the Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, and believe his life-sentence is more than justified.

Think Progress » TABOR Defeat Rattles Right Wing 2005

I read Hilary Mantel's penetrating review of Sister Helen Prejean's book, The Death of Innocents [NYR, May 12], the night before conducting an oral hearing of a life-sentence prisoner in a prison in the west of England.

Crime & Punishment Harding, John 2005