Article: `Need to re-define natural life sentence'

Article: What does a life sentence mean?
Michigan Chronicle;  March 7, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... frequently asked by the public, "What does a life sentence mean?" In Michigan there are two types of life ... parole. Life without parole is also known as a natural life sentence. Natural life means just. what it says, that a person is ...

Article: LIFE SENTENCE IN BOLINGBROOK MURDER JOHN BLANK ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  July 18, 1997 ;     554 words ... ... Blank, 32, was given a mandatory natural life sentence without the possibility of parole by ... not received a penalty as harsh as a life sentence. "I think a mandatory natural life (sentence) is cruel and unusual punishment ...

Article: Consider shortening life sentence of Florida youth
Chicago Defender;  March 13, 2001 ;     581 words ...Consider shortening life sentence of Florida youth The natural life sentence handed down to a 14-year-old boy in Florida due to the brutal, horrid murder of six-year-old Tiffany Eunick, of which he was responsible for committing two years ...

Article: Editorial: Consider shortening life sentence of ...
New Pittsburgh Courier;  March 28, 2001 ;     591 words ...Editorial: Consider shortening life sentence of Florida youth The natural life sentence handed down to a 14-year-old boy in Florida due to the brutal, horrid murder of 6-year ...

Article: Vic: Police killer given another life sentence
AAP General News (Australia);  June 22, 2007 ;     399 words ... ... killer given another life sentence Victorian double police ... has received another life sentence for the murder of an ... for the rest of his natural life without the opportunity ... currently serving a life sentence for the murders of ...

Article: Bar Council to lobby for review of Taiping's natural ...
New Straits Times;  November 17, 2004 ;     599 words ... ... continue lobbying the Government to review the natural life term. He said a policy should be made to ... general law where the maximum sentence is a life sentence (20 years). The natural life sentence came into force in 1971 with an amendment ...

Article: Knife killer in legal challenge to 'life' ...
Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  July 19, 2007 ;     664 words ... ... Ireland's mandatory life sentence regime. There are ... prisons. The average life sentence lasts thirteen and ... him were correct a life sentence was without any remission ... spend the whole of his natural life in prison. He could ...