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In France, life imprisonment is a punishment of indeterminate length and may last for the remainder of the convict's life. The sentence is the most severe punishment given under French law and it can be imposed by the courts for aggravated murder, treason, terrorism, drug kingpin and other serious felonies resulting in death or involving torture. [1]
Serving a life sentence. While serving a 37-year sentence for armed bank robbery at United States Penitentiary, Canaan, he stabbed his cellmate Joseph O’Kane, to death with a homemade prison shank. O'Kane was a member of the Gambino crime family serving a life sentence for murder in aid of racketeering. Dominick Maldonado: 02071-122
He is currently serving three life sentences in France. In his first trial, he was convicted of the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counterintelligence agents. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] While in prison, he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional ...
Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
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 ...
A strengthening of the penal policies has been observed in France under the mandate of the Minister of Justice Rachida Dati, allowed for an increase of penalties for certain offenses and a more frequent use of confinement. The solution then was to build new prison facilities to de-bottleneck the short-stay prisons.
For prisoners held by France that were sentenced to life imprisonment, see Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by France.
Georges was arrested on 26 March 1998 and admitted his guilt to police. Described by psychiatrists as a "narcissistic psychopath", [8] he was sentenced in April 2001 to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole after 22 years. [9] [10] [11]