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QLD Murder ×3 3× life imprisonment 35 years 42 July 2012 [57] Valmae Beck: QLD Murder; rape Life imprisonment 14 years and 6 months 44 1988 Deceased, died of heart failure May 2008 Tracey Wigginton: QLD Murder Life imprisonment 13 years 25 January 1991 Wigginton was released on parole in January 2012 [58] Jessica Stasinowsky: WA Wilful murder
The most severe punishment by law which can be imposed in Australia is life imprisonment. In the most extreme cases of murder, and some severe sex offences, such as aggravated rape, courts in the states and territories can impose life imprisonment without parole, thus ordering the convicted person to spend the rest of their life in prison.
Under NSW law, the maximum penalty for murder is life imprisonment, [11] with a standard non-parole period of 20 years, [12] or 25 years for the murder of a child under the age of 18. [12] In order to be found guilty of murder under the New South Wales Crimes Act 1900 , intent to cause grievous bodily harm or reckless indifference to human life ...
Life imprisonment is not used in all countries; Portugal was the first country to abolish life imprisonment, in 1884, [3] and all other Portuguese-speaking countries also have maximum imprisonment lengths, as well as all Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas except for Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Chile and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Other ...
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A whole life order means life without parole (e.g. natural life in prison until death). However, there is, at least in theory, a possibility of release of prisoners serving such sentences, as the Secretary of State for Justice has the power to release on licence any life sentence prisoner on compassionate grounds in exceptional circumstances.