Two 16-year-old boys have been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa, who was stabbed 27 times with machetes while riding a bus in south-east London.The ...

CALDWELL, Idaho — On Wednesday, a Canyon County man was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder of his ...

Jeremy Albert Best receives three consecutive life sentences for killing his pregnant wife, unborn child, and 10-month-old ...

Over 200,000 inmates in U.S. prisons can expect to die there, but only 2,620 of them are on death row. The rest are sentenced either to life in prison—over 50,000 of them without the possibility ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Robert Holbrook, who was given a life sentence, and Ashley Nellis, co-author of the book "The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences." ...

His life expectancy was a further 61 years when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Roger Dean was 37, with a life expectancy of a further 48.3 years in 2013, when he received multiple life ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moreover, the life expectancy of an inmate serving a life sentence in prison is only 59 years. "I don't highlight this to elicit sympathy for those that commit violent acts," Curcio said.

At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other jurisdiction.