Life sentences

Life imprisonment (also known as a life sentence, lifelong incarceration, or life incarceration) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison for the rest of their lives or until paroled. Crimes for which a person could receive this sentence depending on a country include murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, blasphemy,terrorism, severe child abuse, rape, child rape, espionage, treason, high treason, drug dealing, drug trafficking, possession of large quantities of drugs or other scheduled substances, human trafficking, severe cases of fraud, severe cases of financial crimes, aggravated criminal damage in English law, and aggravated cases of arson, kidnapping, burglary, or robbery which result in death or grievous bodily harm, piracy, and in certain cases genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, certain war crimes or any three felonies in case of three strikes law.