Tag: Life sentence

Wayne Couzens’ Lawyer Appeals for Release After ‘Decades’ in UK Jail

A lawyer representing the police officer-turned-sex killer Wayne Couzens has told the Court of Appeal his client should spend “decades in jail” for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021 but should not have been given a whole-life prison sentence. Under English law the mandatory sentence for murder is life but the…


Indonesian Terrorist Given Life Sentence in 2005 Attack

JAKARTA, INDONESIA—An Indonesian court sentenced an Islamic terrorist who eluded capture for 16 years to life in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of making bombs used in a 2005 market attack that killed 22 people. Upik Lawanga, known as “professor,” is a key member of the Jemaah Islamiyah network, which the United States…


Horrific Abuse Leads to Life Sentence in Death of 2-Year-Old

LAURENS, S.C.—A South Carolina man who killed a 2-year-old child found with bruises and bite marks all over his body and signs of sexual abuse has been sentenced to life in prison after agreeing to plead guilty. William Looper told investigators he beat and abused the boy for two weeks and couldn’t explain why, Solicitor…


Colorado School Shooter Sentenced to Life Without Parole

DENVER—A judge on Friday sentenced a former student to life in prison without parole for a 2019 shooting inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one teenager and injured eight others, telling the defendant he had shown no remorse and had failed to help a devastated community understand his actions. Devon Erickson, now 20,…


Indiana Woman Who Strangled Stepdaughter Gets Life Sentence

MARION, Ind.—A northern Indiana woman convicted of murder in the strangulation death of her 10-year-old stepdaughter was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Amanda Carmack, of Gas City, was sentenced during a hearing on Wednesday. A jury convicted her last month on murder, strangulation, neglect, and battery charges in the killing…


Afghan Man Gets Life for March Stabbing Rampage in Sweden

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A 22-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker was convicted Wednesday of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for a knife attack that injured seven people in a southern Swedish town earlier this year. Tamin Sultani was shot by police and arrested after an 18-minute rampage on March 3. Investigators who dismissed terrorism as a motive charged…


Man Sentenced To Life For Role In Long Beach Woman’s Killing

LONG BEACH—One of three men who had been on death row for the December 1998 rape and beating death of a mother of three attacked while walking to a store in Long Beach was re-sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Superior Court Judge Laura Laesecke said the maximum possible sentence…


UK Reading Park Attacker Receives Whole-Life Prison Sentence

The attacker who murdered three men in a park in Reading, UK, last summer was on Monday given a whole-life jail sentence without any possibility of parole or conditional release. Khairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in Forbury Gardens on the evening of June 20 last year….