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Life imprisonment   /laɪf ɪmprˈɪzənmənt/   Listen
Life imprisonment

noun
1.
A sentence of imprisonment until death.





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"Life imprisonment" Quotes from Famous Books



... filled, the duke took his place, and the unfortunate wretches were led to the block. Alfonso made a signal—he was about to show mercy to his brothers. They lost consciousness and were carried back to prison. Their punishment had been commuted to life imprisonment. They spent years in captivity, surviving Alfonso himself. Apparently it caused him no contrition to know that his miserable brothers were confined in the castle where he dwelt and held his festivities. Such were ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius
... and, let us hope, as well by motives of humanity as by the conviction of the utter uselessness of such a spectacle as a moral lesson, the Senate of Hamburg had commuted the punishment of death into that of a life imprisonment. Yet now they were taunted with their unreadiness to shed blood, and dared to carry the law, as it still stood upon the statute-book, into effect. For a while it seemed that anger would govern the acts of the Senate, for every ...
— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie


Words linked to "Life imprisonment" :   captivity, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration


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