All news on the topic: Life sentence

Casey White, a prisoner, said that guard Vicky White who was not related to him was the first person who cared about him as he was sentenced in Alabama

Stefan Kiszko was wrongfully convicted or murdering 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in 1976 and Peter ross is so touched by his story that he visits his grave every week

Working in a maximum-security Rhode Island prison ruined a woman's love life — her energy became 'toxic' and 'pushed potential partners away,' she says

Daniel Sebastian Allen pleaded guilty to the murders of Roman Gossett, 16, Sabrina Gossett, 19 and 15-month-old Morgana Quinn as well as the manslaughter of Denise Gossett

Belinda Temple’s husband stood trial twice over her death and was found guilty of murder both times

Access codes for the site have been changed after serial killer Bellfield confessed to murdering Elizabeth Chau in 1999 and burying her body there

Seven victims aged under 13 were abused over almost a decade in the Walsall and Wolverhampton areas in what a judge said was a "prolonged and sustained" campaign that left children "terribly psychologically damaged"

A man bludgeoned a news anchor to death with a hammer, injuring his girlfriend and their two children, leaving the 10-year-old son tied up in a closet

Dennis Akpomedaye tried to behead his ex-girlfriend Anna Jedrkowiak in an alleyway after she broke up with him - police say he has never shown any remorse for the murder

Leon Grant, 49, is in talks with the owners of a house in Aberdeen, Scotland, where his wife Jill was raped and murdered with plans to knock it down as he deals with PTSD

Happiness is something that has been in short supply for this family since the murder of the younger daughter Georgia 10 years ago this month - and even with the joyful event for her sister, something will be missing

Yagmur Ozden died after Rida Kazem, 24, lost control of his £180,000 Range Rover, catapulting her onto tube tracks. Her family has now spoken out saying they are furious at his short sentence

Allan Scott met Patricia Holland, 83, while he was selling paintings on the street in Norfolk - she gave him a place to stay but he killed her when she asked him to leave

Nikki Allan's 'devastated' mother has slammed the 29-year sentence handed down to her young daughter's killer - and says she would only have been satisfied with a whole life term

Jake Fahri, then aged 19, attacked Jimmy Mizen at a London bakery in May 2008, grabbing a glass baking dish before smashing it into the youngster's face causing a fatal injury to his neck

Declan O'Donnell, 24, repeatedly kicked, punched and stamped on Paul Cox, 63, during a "grotesque" two-hour rampage at a flat in Nottingham city centre, while social media users begged him to stop

Ex-PC Samantha Lee is said to have failed to obtain crucial evidence after the Met policeman targeted staff in Swanley, Kent days before he went on to kill

Benjamin Schreiber said his death when his heart stopped meant his life sentence should be considered served but judges have disagreed

Smita Mistry was beaten to death by her partner. He walked into a police station and told officers she had gone missing two days after he beat her to death in her own home

The deadly weapons featured in almost 700 offences a month as the weapon of choice for violent thugs. It comes after a string of teenagers were fatally stabbed with the blades

Andrew Hague brutally attacked dad-of-one Simon Wilkinson at his home in Sheffield using a bag of Pokémon card boxes after furiously accusing his neighbour of calling him a 'nonce'

The court heard that Letecia Stauch, 39, had stabbed her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, 18 times before beating him and shooting him in the jaw, "obliterating' the young boy's skull."

Caroline Crouch, 20, was murdered by her Greek husband Babis Anagnostopoulos who staged a robbery in which he hanged their pet dog to hide the crime, as he fights a life sentence

Joe Rankin, 33, from Gloucestershire, is facing life in prison after admitting the murder of Emma Potter, 40, whose body was found in her flat several weeks later

Rachel Mason, the sister of Paul Mason, 52, who was killed in an attack in London by Steven Allen, has again criticised the length of sentence he face serving behind bars