List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment

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This is a list of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment in a single trial, worldwide. The sentence may specify that the life sentences are to be served concurrently or consecutively.

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Prisoners sentenced to more than 20 life sentences

NameSentence startSentence termCountryDescription
Terry Nichols 1995162 consecutive life sentences plus 93 years without paroleConvicted of 161 counts of first degree murder, first degree arson, and conspiracy by the state court of Oklahoma for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995; also sentenced in federal court for terrorism and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter. Record for most consecutive life sentences ever given to a single individual. [1]
Patrick Wood Crusius 202390 consecutive life sentences without parolePerpetrator of the 2019 El Paso shooting, in which 23 people were killed and 23 more injured; he is also charged in Texas state jurisdiction, and faces the death penalty if found guilty. [2]
Reynhard Sinaga 202088 concurrent life sentences with parole possible in 40 years Indonesian-born Manchester resident who was convicted of 136 rapes from 2015 to 2017 of at least 48 drugged victims, a number that according to British Police is most likely much higher. [3]
Michael J. Devlin 200774 life sentences, minimum 2,020 yearsConvicted of multiple counts of kidnapping children in 2002 and 2007, armed criminal action, forcible sodomy, child pornography, transporting minors across state lines to engage in sexual activity, attempted murder, and attempted forcible sodomy.
Abdullah Barghouti 200467 life sentences plus 5,200 years without paroleCommander of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades and one of its chief bomb makers. Sentenced for the death of 66 Israelis, he is held in solitary confinement and denied visits. Also the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed outside the U.S.
Mongezi Jingxela200755 life sentences plus 1,092 yearsSerial rapist, convicted of 52 counts of rape, plus 3 counts of being an accomplice to rape. [4]
Anderson Lee Aldrich 202355 concurrent life sentences without parole plus 190 years (federal)

5 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 2,211 years (state)

Perpetrator of Colorado Springs nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs. [5]
Brenton Tarrant 202052 life sentences plus 480 years without parolePleaded guilty to the murder of 51 worshippers and seriously injuring 40 others in the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019. Sentenced to life imprisonment for each murder and preparing for a terrorist act, and an additional 480 years for wounding 40 people. [6] [7]
Boitumelo Galubetse201351 life sentences plus 780 yearsSerial rapists who operated a taxi and targeted women alone. [8]
Bongani Madlala49 life sentences plus 780 years
Gary Ridgway 200349 life sentences (48 of them without parole) plus 480 years Serial killer known as the "Green River Killer", who confessed to murdering 71 prostitutes between 1982 and 1998. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of number of confirmed victims (behind Samuel Little).
Loi Khac Nguyen199149 consecutive life sentences without paroleSurviving perpetrator of the 1991 Good Guys siege. Convicted of three murders, 11 attempted murders and 35 counts of kidnapping. [9]
Nkosinathi Phakathi202442 life sentences plus 791 yearsConvicted of 90 counts of rape, his attacks were carried out between 2012 and 2021. [10] [11]
Abdulkadir Masharipov 202040 life sentences plus 1,368 yearsAbdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was handed the equivalent of 40 life sentences plus an additional 1,368 years for perpetrating the 2017 Istanbul nightclub shooting. [12]
James Kevin Pope200840 life sentences plus 60 yearsReceived 40 convictions of sexual assault for abusing three teenage girls. [13]
Barry Walker202239 life sentences plus 1,710 years without parole Serial rapist and former physician who practiced medicine in Arkansas. Pled guilty and received the maximum sentence for raping at least 31 different minor children ranging from as early as 1997 until as late as 2022. [14]
Mlungisi Mtshali201339 life sentences plus 212 yearsSerial rapist known as "Birthday rapist", convicted of 70 other charges including: sexual assault, kidnapping and theft. [15]
David Carrick 202336 life sentences, minimum 30 years plus 239 daysSerial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape between 2002 and 2021. [16]
Martin Bryant 199635 life sentences plus 1,035 years without parole Mass murderer who pleaded guilty to murdering 35 people and injuring 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia on April 28, 1996. [17] Sentenced to the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for each murder, and an additional 1,035 years for wounding 23 people, shooting at 14 other people with the intention to kill, four counts of theft of a motor vehicle, three counts of arson and one of kidnapping. [18]
Billy Joe Godfrey201535 life sentences, minimum 1,050 yearsCharged with 35 counts of statutory sodomy in the 1st degree, garnering 35 consecutive life sentences, which is the equivalent of 1,050 years in prison. Godfrey plead guilty to sexually abusing two children between 1995 and 1999. The children were between the ages of eight and 13 at the time of the assaults. [19] [20]
Nikolas Cruz 202234 consecutive life sentences (17 without parole plus a minimum of 380 years)Perpetrator of the 2018 Parkland high school shooting who plead guilty to killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. [21]
Joseph McCann 201933 life sentencesSerial rapist and pedophile who went on a spree of sexually assaulting 11 victims. [22]
Sinja Mabitsela201732 life sentences plus 275 yearsOne of the balaclava rapists, claims he was forced by his partner Josias Mkansi. [23]
Warren Troy Knoop201732 life sentences plus 170 yearsFound guilty of 870 charges of child rape, exploitation, sexual assault and child pornography. [24]
Albert Morake201530 life sentences, minimum 1,535 yearsSerial rapist, convicted of other crimes including: robbery, attempted murder and kidnapping. [25]
Bobby Joe Long 198528 life sentences plus 104 yearsSerial killer who raped more than 50 women and killed at least 10. The sentence was reduced on appeal from 33 life sentences (26 without parole and 7 with no parole for 25 years). Also sentenced to one death penalty. Executed in 2019. [26]
Donald Harvey 198728 life sentencesHospital orderly who pled guilty to murdering 37 people in Toledo, Ohio between 1970 and 1987, although Harvey has claimed to have killed 87 individuals. Murdered at Toledo Correctional Institution in 2017. [27]
Cedric Maake 200027 life sentences plus 1,159 years and 3 monthsSerial killer known as the Wemmer Pam Murderer and the Hammer Killer. Convicted of 27 murders, 26 attempted murders, 15 rapes and 46 accounts of aggravated robbery, among other charges.
Salvatore "Totò" Riina 199326 life sentencesReputed "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, nicknamed "The Beast". Believed to have ordered over 150 murders in Italy. [28] Served his sentence in solitary confinement [29] until his death in prison in 2017, the day after his 87th birthday.
Andrew Aston 200226 life sentences Cocaine addict who attacked and robbed 26 elderly and disabled people in their homes over the course of three months. Two victims died.
Juan Corona 197325 life sentences without paroleA Mexican-born labor contractor, Corona murdered 25 vagrants and occasional farm workers and buried them in orchards of California between 1970 and 1971. Died of natural causes in 2019 at California State Prison, Corcoran. [30]
Richard William Huckle 201522 life sentences, minimum 25 yearsSexually abused 23 children in Malaysia over a ten-year period. Murdered at HM Prison Full Sutton in 2019. [31]
Natalie Wagner202421 life sentences plus 800 yearsRecorded and sold videos of herself sexually abusing her children, aged 1 and 3, to Snapchat users. [32]
Chester Arthur Stiles 200921 life sentences, minimum 140 yearsFormer Siegfried & Roy trainer who made a video of himself raping and sexually abusing a two-year-old girl in 2003. Sentenced to 21 life sentences on 10 counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14, 11 counts of sexual assault with a minor under 14, and one count of attempted sexual assault with a minor under 14. 19 charges were tied directly to what was seen in the tape, and three charges pertained to the assault of the 6-year-old girl, who wasn't recorded. [33] [34]
Patrick Wayne Kearney 197721 life sentences with a minimum of 7 years to run concurrentlySerial killer who killed 21–43 young men from 1962-to-1977. [35] Sentenced by Superior Judge John Hews to 21 life sentences with a minimum of 7 years to run concurrently [36] denied parole on June 21, 1984, April 29, 1987, July 23, 1990, June 29, 1993, October 30, 1996, January 10, 2002, February 22, 2007, and on January 31, 2012. The next time Kearney will be eligible for parole will be January 2027 [37]
Hugh Callahan197521 life sentencesSix Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991.
Gerard Hunter21 life sentences
Patrick Joseph Hill21 life sentences
Richard McIlkenny21 life sentences
William Power21 life sentences
John Walker21 life sentences

Prisoners sentenced to up to 20 life sentences

NameSentence startSentence termCountryDescription
Bernardo Provenzano 200620 life sentences + 49 years, 1 month and solitary confinement for 33 years and six months [38] Member of the Sicilian Mafia, at first Salvatore Riina's right-hand man, then, after Riina's arrest, "boss of bosses". Was 40 years in hiding until his arrest in 2006. Died in 2016 while imprisoned.
Peter Sutcliffe 198120 life sentences without parole for 30 yearsSerial killer known as "the Yorkshire Ripper" who murdered 13 people and attempted to murder 7 others between 1975 and 1980. Died in 2020 of COVID-19. [39]
Charles Cullen 200618 life sentences without parole for 497 yearsNurse who confessed to have killed 40 patients from 1988 to 2003. [40] [41]
Jazzman Rikhotso201217 life sentences plus 164.5 yearsSerial rapist known as "the Avalon Cemetery Rapist". Rikhotso would prey on females visiting gravesites of loved ones between 2008 and 2010. [42]
Alexandros Giotopoulos 200317 life sentences plus 25 yearsLeader of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
Benjamin Geen 200617 life sentences without parole for 30 yearsMale nurse who injected 17 patients with muscle relaxants between 2003 and 2004. Seven underwent respiratory arrests as a result and two died. [43]
Abd al-Hadi Rafa Ghanim 198916 life sentencesPerpetrator of the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack.
David Randitsheni 200916 life sentences plus 220 yearsSerial killer who abducted, raped and murdered children. Hanged himself three weeks after conviction.
Ricky Wassenaar200516 life sentencesOne of two inmates responsible for a 2004 hostage-taking incident in Arizona State Prison Complex – Lewis which is located at Buckeye, Arizona. [44]
Jeffrey Dahmer 199216 life sentences without paroleSerial killer known as "the Milwaukee Cannibal" who murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991. While behind bars, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver in 1994. [45]
Harold Shipman 200015 life sentences plus 4 yearsMedical doctor believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in the world, with more than 218 victims. Died by suicide at HM Prison Wakefield in 2004. [46]
Robert Hanssen 200115 consecutive life sentences without parole FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for 22 years. Died at ADX Florence in 2023. [47]
Lucy Letby 202315 life sentencesNeonatal nurse who murdered 7 babies. [48] [49]
Josias Mkansi201714 life sentences plus 185 yearsOne of the balaclava rapists, claims he was innocent and framed by his partner Sinja Mabitsela. [50]
Earl Bradley 201114 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 165 yearsConvicted of molesting, raping, and sexually exploiting dozens of child patients. [51]
Mzikayise Mkavu201713 life sentences plus 228 yearsSerial rapist, other crimes include assault, robbery and attempted murder. [52]
Thozamile Taki 201113 life sentences plus 208 yearsSerial killer known as "The Sugarcane Killer" who murdered 13 women.
Leoluca Bagarella 199513 life sentences + 106 years, 10 months and solitary confinement for 6 years [38] Member of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Riina's brother-in-law.
Donato Bilancia 200013 life sentences without paroleSerial killer active in the Italian Riviera.
Michael Wheatley200213 life sentences plus 65 years without parole for 8 yearsViolent robber known as "the Skull-Cracker." Escaped briefly from prison in 2014, but was recaptured. [53]
Beverley Allitt 199313 life sentencesNurse who fatally poisoned four children and attempted to kill nine others at Grantham and District Hospital in 1991. [54]
Timothy Krajcir 200813 life sentencesSerial killer who murdered nine women in Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Sentence resulting from a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
James Eagan Holmes 201512 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without paroleMass murderer guilty of perpetrating the 2012 Aurora shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. He killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. He was given 12 life sentences (one for each murder), and an additional 3,318 years in prison for numerous counts of attempted murder, one count of possessing an illegal explosive device, and one sentence enhancement of a crime of violence. [55]
Ra Diggs 201512 life sentences plus 105 years Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist who was convicted of charges of racketeering, drug dealing, and three murders. [56]
Bhekithemba Fanozi Nxumalo202412 life sentences plus 75 yearsSerial rapist, went on a raping spree starting in 2012 until he was caught in 2021. [57]
Mandisa Ngcobo202412 life sentences plus 55 yearsPlanned attack on a drug business, 15 victims were forced into a small bathroom and set on fire. [58]
Mthobisi Makhathini
Sanele Aubrey Phetha
Joseph James DeAngelo 202012 life sentences without parole plus 8 yearsThe Golden State Killer who was given 11 life terms for murder, 1 life term for kidnapping, and 8 years for a weapons charge. [59]
Valerie Moore200712 life sentencesPerpetrator of the Mizpah Hotel fire. [60]
Joe O'Connell 197712 life sentences without parole Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Edward Butler12 life sentences without parole
Harry Duggan12 life sentences without parole
Hugh Doherty 11 life sentences without parole
Roger Kingsley Dean201311 life sentences plus 12 years without parolePerpetrator of the 2011 Quakers Hill Nursing Home fire in Quakers Hill, New South Wales where he worked as a nurse, to cover up his theft of painkillers. 11 patients died and eight others were injured in the blaze. [61]
Charles Juan Proctor201011 life sentences plus 433 yearsSerial slasher known as "The Box Cutter". He slashed several women in California. He was convicted of five counts of robbery; three counts each of kidnap for robbery, false imprisonment, and burglary; two counts each of attempted murder and mayhem; and one count each of attempted robbery, attempted kidnap for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and assault. [62]
Payton S. Gendron 202311 life sentences plus 90 years without parolePerpetrator of the 2022 Buffalo shooting in which he murdered 10 people. [63] [64]
Soyisiso Nofemele201211 life sentences plus 10 yearsChild rapist, he was convicted of 12 counts of rape and abduction and 1 count of murder. [65]
Joseph Edward Duncan III201111 life sentences without paroleConvicted of the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez in California, and the 2005 kidnapping of the Groene family (murdering 4 of them). Duncan's 11 sentences comes from 3 life terms in 2006 from a state court, 6 life terms in 2008 (3 from a state court, and the other 3 from a federal court), and 2 life terms in 2011 from a California court. [66] [67] [68] Died in 2021 while at United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute. [69]
John Justin Bunting200311 life sentences without paroleRingleader and main perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
George Harold Davis 200411 life sentences without paroleOpened fire on a group of people outside a bar in downtown Ennis, Montana, then engaged police officers in a high-speed chase and shootout. One man was killed and six others were injured outside the bar. He was given the longest prison sentence in Montana state history. [70]
Juan Manuel Álvarez 200811 consecutive life sentences without paroleDrenched his Jeep Cherokee in gasoline before parking it on the tracks on the border of Atwater and Glendale. He bailed out on his suicide attempt but left the Jeep on the tracks. The ensuing derailment sent rail cars into nearby Union Pacific train, killing 11 and injuring 177.
James Ruppert 197511 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 1975 "Easter Sunday Massacre", during which he murdered 11 people in his mother's home of Hamilton, Ohio. His sentence was reduced to two life sentences after an appeal in 1982. Ruppert died of natural causes in 2022. [71]
Benjamin Atkins 199211 life sentencesSerial Killer known as the Woodward Corridor Killer, who raped and strangled 11 prostitutes in Detroit because of his hate for prostitution. As a child, he was himself raped, and often witnessed his mother while she worked as a prostitute. Died of AIDS-related complications in 1997. [72]
Juan García Abrego 199711 life sentencesDrug lord who helped funnel cocaine and marijuana into the United States from Mexico. [73]
Dimitris Koufontinas 200311 life sentencesMain assassin of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November. [74]

Prisoners sentenced up to 10 life sentences

NameSentence startSentence termCountryDescription
Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa 202410 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 1,334 yearsPerpetrator of the 2021 Boulder shooting. [75]
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov 202310 life sentences plus 260 years without parolePerpetrator of the 2017 New York truck attack, in which 8 people were killed and 11 more injured. [76]
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera 199110 consecutive life sentences plus 45 years without paroleChief assassin of the Medellin Cartel, responsible of the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 among others. [77]
Frank Robert James 202310 concurrent life sentences plus 10 years without parolePerpetrator of the 2022 New York City Subway attack in which injured 29 people, including 10 from gunfire. Received life for each person he attempted to murder, and an extra 10 years for a firearms charge. [78]
Dennis Rader 200510 life sentences with parole possible after 175 yearsSerial killer who is nicknamed the "BTK Killer" murdered at least 10 people between 1974 and 1991 in Kansas. [79]
Robert Joe Wagner200310 life sentences without paroleOne of the perpetrators of the Snowtown murders in which 12 people were killed around the Adelaide, South Australia area in the 1990s. [80]
Robert Bates 197910 life sentencesMember of the Shankill Butchers who tortured and murdered Catholics in Belfast (or people that the gang believed to be Catholic, but weren't).
Xolani Gcelu20249 life sentences plus 158 yearsSerial rapist, committed several other crimes including kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder. [81]
Jean-Paul Akayesu 19989 life sentences, minimum 25 yearsFound guilty of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Serves his sentence in a Benin prison since 2020

He was detained in Mali from 2001 until 2020, and before 2001 in ICTR custody in The Hague.

Sean Kelly 19959 life sentencesMember of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade who perpetrated the Shankill Road bombing in 1993. The bomb – intended for Johnny Adair and senior members of the Ulster Defence Association – exploded earlier, killing fellow IRA member Thomas Begley and nine unrelated people, and injuring Kelly himself, who lost an eye and the use of his left arm. Released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Dylann Roof 20179 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 95 yearsPerpetrator of the 2015 Charleston church shooting in which he murdered 9 people. [82] Currently at USP Terre Haute on death row awaiting execution. [83]
Johnathan Doody20149 life sentencesOne of two perpetrators of the 1991 Waddell Buddhist temple shooting. [84]
Craig Petties 20139 life sentencesConvicted drug trafficker from Memphis, Tennessee. [85]
Robert Bever 20169 life sentences, one with paroleOne of the perpetrators of the Broken Arrow murders. He was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He was given life without parole for the murder and one with parole for the assault and battery with a deadly weapon. [86] After trying to attack two staff people, he was given 3 extra life terms. [87]
Thokozani Jiyane20218 life sentences plus 223 yearsSerial rapist, other crimes include robbery, kidnapping, fraud and assault. [88]
Sibusiso Duma 20098 life sentences plus 139 years Taxi driver and serial killer who used his vehicle to procure new victims and sometimes kill them.
Ted Kaczynski 19988 consecutive life sentences plus 30 years without parole Anarchistic terrorist who killed three and injured 23 with parcel bombs. Died in prison at Federal Medical Center, Butner in 2023. [89]
Patrick Magee 19868 life sentences without parole for 35 yearsIRA member and perpetrator of the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing, which unsuccessfully tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
George Wagner IV20228 life sentences plus 121 yearsOne of the perpetrators of the Pike County shootings. [90] [91]
El Shafee Elsheikh 20228 concurrent life sentences without paroleMember of 'The Beatles', a terrorist cell of four which was part of Islamic state, as "Ringo". His friend, Alexanda Kotey, who was also part of the group as "George", was also given a life sentence and is incarcerated at ADX Florence. Both were captured in February 2018 while trying to fled the collapse of Islamic State. Other two members of the group, "John" and "Paul" were killed and captured, respectively, in November 2015.
Edmund Kemper 19738 life sentencesSerial killer nicknamed "The Co-Ed Butcher."
Alfred Gaynor 20008 life sentencesSerial killer from Massachusetts who was convicted of 8 murders, 4 of which in 2000 and the other 4 in 2010. [92]
Michael Lee Cummins20238 life sentences without parole.Perpetrator of the 2019 Sumner County murders in which he murdered multiple members of his own family and his girlfriend's. [93] [94]
Nairi Hunanyan 19998 life sentencesPerpetrators of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting in which eight officials were killed, including sitting Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Karen Demirchyan, and Minister of Urgent Affairs Leonard Petrosyan.
Karen Hunanyan8 life sentences
Vram Galstyan8 life sentences
Derenik Ejanyan8 life sentences
Eduard Grigoryan8 life sentences
Scott Evans Dekraai20118 life sentencesPerpetrator of 2011 Seal Beach shooting. [95]
Kendall Francois 20008 life sentencesMurdered at least 8 women in upper New York between 1996 and 1998. [96] Fancois died in 2014 while at Wende Correctional Facility. [97]
Ronald Dominique 20088 life sentences without paroleSerial killer who raped and murdered over 23 men in Louisiana between 1997 and 2008. [98]
Torrens Knight 19938 life sentences Ulster Defence Association member involved in the Greysteel massacre and the Castlerock killings. Released under the Good Friday Agreement, but his license was suspended after he was convicted of assaulting two women in 2009, and was returned to jail.
One L. Goh20177 life sentences plus 271 yearsPerpetrator of the 2012 Oikos University shooting.
Jeffrey Kollie19967 life sentences plus 265 yearsConvicted of armed robbery. The sentence was the longest in the US state of Georgia. They rejected an offer to plead guilty for a 40-year prison sentence. [99] [100]
Ryan Brandt7 life sentences plus 265 years
Jared Lee Loughner 20127 life sentences plus 140 years without parolePerpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting. [101]
Ivan Milat 19967 life sentences plus 18 years without parolePerpetrator of the Backpacker murders. Died in 2019 of cancer. [102]
Paul Michael Merhige20117 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2009 Thanksgiving murders. [103]
Michael Morgan McDermott20027 life sentences without parolePerpetrator of the 2000 Edgewater Technology shooting. [104]
Walter E. Ellis 20117 life sentences without paroleSerial killer known as the "Milwaukee North Side Strangler." Died in prison in 2013.
Samuel Sidyno 20007 life sentences without parole for 40 yearsSerial killer who raped and murdered two women and five boys near Pretoria Zoo between 1998 and 1999.
Antoni Imiela 20047 life sentences without parole for 8 years Serial rapist active over a large area of southern England. Died at HM Prison Wakefield in 2018. [105]
Todd Kohlhepp 20177 life sentences without parole.Murdered 7 people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016, 4 of which was at a bike shop. [106]
Reta Mays 20217 life sentences without parole.Murdered 7 elderly veterans at Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in West Virginia by injecting patients with lethal doses of insulin. [107]
Ahlam Albashir20247 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2022 Istanbul bombing. [108]
Stewart Wilken 19987 life sentencesSerial killer and necrophiliac known as the "Boetie Boer". Murdered and sodomized ten women and young boys, including his ex-wife's son. Also killed his daughter.
Nikos Metaxas 20187 life sentencesGreek Cypriot former army officer who confessed to the Mitsero murders.
Ami Popper 19917 life sentences Dishonorably discharged IDF soldier who murdered seven Palestinian workers at a bus stop in Rishon Lezion in 1990. His sentence was later reduced to 40 years and he was granted temporary leaves.
Darrell E. Brooks20226 consecutive life sentences plus 1,067 years without the possibility of parolePerpetrator of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack in which he plowed his SUV into the event, murdering 6 and injuring a further 62. [109]
Rayshun Mullins20096 life sentences plus 1,015 yearsFlag of the United States.svg  United States Serial rapist who attacked 9 women between 2003 and 2004. Convicted on 26 counts, which included rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary. [110]
Larry Hoover 19976 life sentences plus 200 yearsFlag of the United States.svg  United States Co-founder of the street gang, the Gangster Disciples. [111]
Linda Hayes20156 life sentences plus 106 yearsOne of two perpetrators of the Cheshire murders. First given six death penalties and 106 years at a 2010 trial, which were changed to life sentences after Connecticut abolished the death penalty.
Chai Vang 20046 consecutive life sentences plus 70 years without parole California National Guard veteran who killed six hunters and wounded another two during a hunting trip to northern Wisconsin. [112]
Peter Odighizuwa20046 life sentences without parole plus 28 years.Perpetrator of the 2002 Appalachian School of Law shooting in which he murdered 3 people. [113]
Malcolm George Baker 19926 life sentences plus 25 years without parolePerpetrator of the 1992 Central Coast massacre in which Baker went on a spree killing at Central Coast (New South Wales), murdering 6 people. [114]
Abdelkrim Belachheb 19846 life sentences plus 20 yearsPerpetrator of the 1984 Dallas nightclub shooting.
Jason Brian Dalton20196 life sentences without parole.Perpetrator of the 2016 Kalamazoo shootings in which he murdered 6 people. [115]
John Wayne Glover 19906 life sentences without paroleSerial killer of elderly women in Sydney. Hanged himself in prison in 2005.
Lee Boyd Malvo 20066 life sentences without paroleAccomplice of John Allen Muhammad in the Beltway Sniper killings. Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.
Efren Saldivar 20026 consecutive life sentences without paroleSerial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist.
Zacarias Moussaoui 20066 consecutive life sentences without parole French Moroccan who pleaded guilty to conspiring to take part in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. [116]
Terry Blair 20086 consecutive life sentences without paroleSerial killer and rapist active in Kansas City, Missouri. Blair died in May 2024. [117]
James William Miller19806 life sentences with non-parole period of 35 yearsAccomplice of Christopher Worrell in the Truro murders. Worrell died in a car accident before capture, and Miller died in prison of cancer in 2008. [118]
Ronald DeFeo Jr. 19756 life sentences without parole for 25 yearsPerpetrator of the Amityville family massacre. Defeo died in 2021. [119]
Elmer Wayne Henley 19746 life sentencesTeenage accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll in the Houston Mass Murders, whom he also killed in self-defence.
David Berkowitz 19786 life sentencesSerial killer of couples known as "Son of Sam" and "the .44 Caliber Killer."
John Childs 19796 life sentences Contract killer.
Bruce Johnston 19816 consecutive life sentences Philadelphia gang leader convicted of six murders and one attempt. Johnston died in 2002 while at State Correctional Institution – Graterford. [120]
Daniel Gonzalez 20046 life sentencesMentally ill spree killer. Died by suicide in prison.
Paul Steven Haigh 19916 life sentencesResponsible for the murder of 7 people. [121]

Prisoners sentenced up to 5 life sentences

NameSentence startSentence termCountryDescription
Jarrod Warren Ramos20215 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 345 yearsPerpetrator of the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting. [122]
Happy Mukwevho20235 life sentences plus 222 yearsSerial rapist, committed several other crimes including kidnapping and robbery. [81]
Jorge Torrez 20105 consecutive life sentences plus 168 yearsFlag of the United States.svg  United States Former US Marine convicted of raping five people in Virginia. [123] Later convicted and sentenced to a further 100 years for the 2005 kidnapping, rape, and murder of two young girls in Illinois. [124]
Esteban Santiago-Ruiz20185 life sentences without parole plus 120 yearsFlag of the United States.svg  United States Perpetrator of the 2017 Fort Lauderdale airport shooting in which he murdered 5 people and injured 6 others. [125] [126]
Donald Neilson 19765 life sentences plus 61 yearsRobber, kidnapper and murderer nicknamed "the Black Panther" for the balaclava that he wore during his attacks. Died in prison in 2011.
Samir Kuntar 19795 life sentences plus 47 years Lebanese members of a PLF commando who attempted to abduct an Israeli citizen, Danny Haran, in the 1979 Nahariya attack. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured after sustaining a shootout with Israeli police and soldiers, and subsequently convicted of the murders of two Israeli policemen, Haran and Haran's two daughters, Einat and Yael Haran, who were 4 and 2 years old, respectively. Yael Haran was accidentally suffocated by her mother while hiding in a crawlspace, and Einat Haran died in the shootout with her father. Kuntar and al-Abras always denied to have killed Haran and his daughter and claimed that it was the Israeli forces who had actually killed them when they fired on the abductors as they tried to leave. al-Abras was released in the 1985 Jibril agreement, and Kuntar in the 2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap. Kuntar was killed in 2015 by an Israeli drone strike in Syria.
Ahmad al-Abras5 life sentences plus 47 years
Marwan Barghouti 20045 life sentences plus 40 yearsLeader of the Second Intifada and alleged founder of Tanzim.
Michael Bever 20185 life sentences plus 28 yearsMichael Bever was involved in his brother's crimes. [127]
Christopher Bryan Speight20135 life sentences plus 18 years.Perpetrator of the 2010 Appomattox shootings. [128]
Leonard Fraser 19995 life sentences plus 25 years without paroleSerial killer known as "the Rockhampton Rapist." Died in prison in 2007.
Robert Mark Steele19935 life sentences plus 25 years without paroleSpree killer captured after the 1993 Cangai siege. Hanged himself in prison in 1994.
Christopher Watts 20185 life sentences without parole plus 84 yearsFlag of the United States.svg  United States Killed his wife and children, including his unborn son in August 2018. Pleaded guilty on November 6, 2018, and was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole. In addition to the life terms, Watts was sentenced to 48 years for unlawful termination of a pregnancy and 36 years in prison for three counts of tampering with a deceased human body. [129]
Chester William Fewins20205 life sentences plus 59 yearsConvicted on 3 counts of 1st degree child molestation, attempted 1st degree statutory rape, abuse or neglect of a child under 14, 1st degree statutory rape person under 14, 1st degree statutory sodomy person under 14, tampering with a victim or attempt to tamper with a victim. [130]
John List 19905 life sentences without parole Killed his wife, mother and children in 1971 and became one of the most notorious fugitives in the US until his arrest in Virginia in 1989, after he was featured in America's Most Wanted . Died in prison in 2008. [131]
Lindsay Robert Rose 19985 life sentences without paroleSerial killer and contract killer who murdered 5 people between 1984 and 1994. [132]
Faye Copeland 19995 life sentences without paroleOriginally sentenced to death along with her husband Ray for the murder of five itinerant workers in their farm, between 1986 and 1989. With ages of 76 and 69 at the time of sentencing, the couple were the oldest prisoners in death row in the United States. After Ray died from natural causes while in death row in 1993, there was growing pressure to pardon or reduce Faye's sentence, as some argued that she had been abused and pressured into helping with the murders by her husband. The death sentence was commuted in 1999, and in 2002 Governor Bob Holden authorized her release on medical grounds. She died in a nursing home in 2003 from natural causes.
Douglas Crabbe 19835 life sentences without parole for 30 yearsTruck driver who deliberately drove his vehicle into a crowded bar in Uluru, killing five.
William MacDonald 19635 life sentencesSerial killer known as "the Sydney Mutilator." Died in prison in 2015. [133]
Colin Ireland 19935 life sentencesSerial killer of homosexual men nicknamed "the Gay Slayer." Died in prison in 2012. [134]
Binh Thai Luc20185 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2012 Ingleside, San Francisco homicide. [135]
John Stanfa 19955 life sentencesBoss of the Philadelphia Crime Family between 1991 and 1995.
Kirby Logan Archer 20085 consecutive life sentencesPled guilty to hijacking a fishing vessel and murdering its crew. Was found adrift in said vessel in 2007. [136]
Gwendolyn Graham 19895 life sentencesSerial killer who murdered five elderly women in a retirement home of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she worked as an unlicensed nurse's aide. Her accomplice Cathy Wood, also a worker with the same rank, was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Robert Xie20175 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2009 Lin family murders. [137]
Steven Dale Green20095 life sentencesOne of the perpetrators of the 2006 Mahmudiyah rape and killings which occurred in Iraq during the Iraq War. [138] Died by suicide in 2014 at United States Penitentiary, Tucson. [139]
Nathaniel Veltman20245 life sentences with parole possible after 25 yearsFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Perpetrator of the 2021 London, Ontario truck attack in which he plowed his vehicle into a family of five waiting to cross the road at an intersection, murdering four of them. [140] [141]
Joseph Eaton20244 life sentences plus 290 yearsPerpetrator of the 2023 Bowdoin–Yarmouth shootings. [142]
Herman See20204 life sentences plus 221 yearsFlag of the United States.svg  United States Father convicted on 22 counts of rape against his own daughters. Sentenced along with his wife, Angela Stites (who received 86 years). [143]
Dametrius Marquel Sims20244 consecutive life sentences plus 90 yearsLead a group that was involved in at least six robberies targeting restaurants and delivery drivers in Gwinnett county between August and October 2017. [144]
Stanislav Beloruscev 2010–20174 life sentences plus 51 years imprisonmentFlag of Russia.svg  Russia Serial killer who murdered elderly people and acquaintances in his hometown of Krasnokamsk. Notable for confessing to new crimes over a period of several years.
Raffaele Cutolo 19794 life sentencesBoss and founder of the NCO, a Camorra organization. Cutolo was one of the longest prisoners in Italy and finally died in 2021 imprisoned.
Robert Aaron Long 20214 consecutive life sentences plus 35 years without parolePerpetrator of 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, in which 8 people were killed and one more was injured. However, this sentence is for conviction for shooting in Cherokee county, where 4 out of 8 victims were killed.
Nicolai Bonner 20054 life sentences plus 34 yearsHomeless serial killer, born in Moldova, who killed four other homeless people, all also originally from the former Soviet Union and who had been drinking partners of Bonner.
Samuel Leonard Boyd 19854 life sentences plus 25 years without paroleStabbed a woman in 1982, and on April 22, 1983, bashed his flatmate to death with a hammer before driving to a school, taking three teachers hostage and forcing them to abuse each other before killing two of them. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without parole, redetermined in 1995 under new laws.
Kristen Gilbert 20014 life sentences without parole plus 20 yearsSerial killer nurse who injected patients at the Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center with epinephrine, inducing heart attacks.
Michael Lupo 19874 life sentences plus 14 yearsSerial killer known as "The Wolf Man", who murdered homosexual men in London. Died from AIDS-related complications in 1995.
Nicholas Tartaglione20244 consecutive life sentences without paroleConvicted of 2016 quadruple murder connected to botched drug deal.
Cosmo DiNardo20184 life sentencesOne of two perpetrators of the July 2017 Pennsylvania murders. [145]
Jeremy Strohmeyer 19984 life sentences without paroleMolested and killed an unsupervised seven-year-old girl in a Nevada casino's restroom when he was eighteen. Took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. [146]
Mark Hobson 20054 life sentences without parole Spree killer who murdered his girlfriend, her twin sister and an elderly couple during an eight-day manhunt. Documents found at his home revealed that the first two killings were premeditated and that he intended to murder more of his girlfriend's relatives.
Samuel Little 20144 life sentences without paroleSerial killer who murdered at least 60 people and confessed to murdering 93 people. This convictions is for four of the killings, and Little was not prosecuted for the rest of them. Died in prison in 2020.
Howell Emanuel Donaldson III 20234 consecutive life sentences without paroleSerial killer who in 2017 shot dead 4 people in Seminole Heights neighbourhood of Tampa, Florida. [147]
Bandali Debs 20114 life sentences plus 27 years without paroleSerial armed robber, perpetrator of the Silk-Miller police murders; also killed two sex workers.
James Spyridon Vlassakis20034 life sentences without parole for 26 yearsPerpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
David Birnie 19964 life sentences without parole for 20 yearsPerpetrators of the Moorhouse murders. David Birnie hanged himself in prison in 2005, the day before his trial for the rape of another inmate. Catherine Birnie was declared "never to be released" in 2009, but this decision might be subject to change in 2019.
Catherine Birnie 4 life sentences without parole for 20 years
Eric Rudolph 20054 life sentences (two of them without parole)Perpetrator of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing. [148]
Denis Goldberg 19644 life sentencesTechnical advisor to uMkhonto we Sizwe, convicted at the Rivonia Trial. Released in 1985.
David Johnston19814 life sentencesBrothers of Bruce Johnston and members of his gang.
Norman Johnston4 life sentences
Barry Mills 20064 life sentencesLeader of the Aryan Brotherhood. Died at ADX Florence in 2018. [149]
Waldo Grant 19784 life sentencesSerial killer active in New York. [150]
Wayne Boden 19714 life sentencesSerial killer and rapist known as "The Vampire Rapist and Strangler Bill".
Nicholas Browning 20094 life sentencesTeenager who murdered his family. [151]
Brandon Tholmer 19864 life sentencesMurdered 12–34 people between 1981 and 1983. [152]
Mario Normore 20234 life sentencesMurdered 4 people in 2017. [153]
Daron Wint20194 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2015 Washington, D.C., quadruple murder incident. [154]

Prisoners sentenced up to 3 life sentences

NameSentence startSentence termCountryDescription
Dudley Wayne Kyzer19813 life sentences plus 10,000 yearsConvicted of killing his estranged wife, Diane Kyzer, his mother-in-law, Eunice Barringer, and college student Rick Pyron who just happened to be at the Barringer home on Halloween in 1976. Denied parole 10 times, the most recent being in 2016. [155]
Heather Pressdee 20243 life sentences plus 380–760 years Pennsylvania nurse who murdered 3 people through lethal doses of insulin. [156]
Richard Reid 20033 consecutive life sentences plus 110 years without paroleBritish-born terrorist who tried to detonate a bomb with shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 in 2001. [157] [158]
Shaun Gallon20193 life sentences plus 94 yearsPerpetrator of the 2004 Jenner, California, double murder. [159]
Marcel Wayne Williams 19943 life sentences plus 70 yearsSentenced to death for the murder of Stacy Rae Errickson and also three terms of life imprisonment plus 70 years for kidnapping, robbing and raping Errickson in the same case. Executed on April 24, 2017.
Sylvia Seegrist 19863 life sentences plus 70 years Paranoid schizophrenic who opened fire in a shopping mall outside Philadelphia, killing three and injuring seven before being disarmed by another shopper.
Rockne Warren Newell20153 life sentences plus 61–122 yearsPerpetrator of the 2013 Ross Township Municipal Building shooting. [160]
Ronnie O'Neal20213 life sentences plus 60 yearsPerpetrator of the 2018 Riverview murders. [161]
Michael Kanaan 20013 life sentences plus 50 years and 4 monthsSerial killer who murdered 3 people in Sydney in 1998. [162]
John Cribb 19783 life sentences plus 45 yearsWhile under parole for a previous sentence for armed robbery, Cribb broke into a family home of Swansea, New South Wales, and abducted a woman and her two children. Cribb phoned the woman's husband to tell him that he was the woman's long-time lover and that they had run away together. Afterward, Cribb raped the woman and fatally stabbed all captives with a knife, before being arrested after a ten-hour siege. While in awaiting trial, he escaped with another inmate and went on a robbery and raping spree until they were re-captured. Cribb's sentence was increased by thirty years because of crimes committed during this escape.
Arthur Walker 19853 life sentences plus 40 yearsBrother of US Navy officer John Anthony Walker, convicted of spying for the Soviet Union along with him. Both died in prison in 2014.
Will Hayden 20173 life sentences plus 40 yearsTwo counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape, of two girls over the course of two decades, one of which was his daughter.
Natasha Wallen Cornett 19983 life sentences plus 25 years without parolePerpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Edward Dean Mullins3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Joseph Lance Risner3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Crystal R. Sturgill3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Jason Blake Bryant3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Karen R. Howell3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Hugo Pastén Espinoza20223 life sentences (with the possibility of parole in 120 years) plus 20 yearsFlag of Chile.svg  Chile Serial killer responsible for three murders occurred in 2019. [163]
Ashley Coulston 19923 life sentences plus 7 years without paroleTriple murderer and abductor. Also a suspect in the Balaclava Killings of 1979–1980.
Arthur Hutchinson 19843 life sentences with minimum of 18 plus 8 years for rape and 5 years for aggressive burglary to run concurrently (later extended to a whole life order)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Triple Murderer who broke into the home of the Laitner family where he stabbed Basil Laitner, 59, Avril Laitner, 55, and there son, Richard Laitner, 28, to death before raping there daughter, Nicola Laitner, 18, at least twice before going on the run. [164] Hutchinson was sentenced by Judge J. McNeil in 1984 to three life sentences with a minimum of 18 years plus 8 years for rape and 5 years for aggressive burglary to run concurrently this sentence was changed to a whole life order on 16 December 1994 by Home Secretary Leon Brittan [165]
Patrick Nogueira 20183 life sentences plus 25 yearsBrazilian 19-year-old who murdered his aunt, uncle and two infant cousins in Pioz, Castilla–La Mancha. The three life sentences were for the murders of the children due to their age, and the premeditation of the uncle's murder hours after the others. [166]
Willie James Pye 19963 life sentences plus 20 yearsConvicted of kidnapping, burglary, robbery and rape for the death of his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough in Georgia. Additionally, Pye received the death sentence in Georgia for the most serious charge of murdering Yarbrough, and he was executed by lethal injection in 2024. [167]
Martin Leach 19843 life sentences without paroleStabbed two teenage girls in Berry Springs, Northern Territory in a sexually motivated attack.
Dana Ewell 19923 life sentences without paroleArranged the killings of his father, mother and sister with the intention to inherit the family fortune.
Michael Swango 20003 life sentences without parolePhysician who admitted to causing four deaths and suspected of sixty poisonings of patients.
Richard Timmons 20043 life sentences without paroleFatally stabbed his stepson and decapitated his wife and son with an ax in Queens, New York.
Ramzi Aouad 20063 life sentences without paroleConvicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial.
Naseam El-Zeyat 3 life sentences without parole
Alec Devon Kreider 20083 life sentences without parole16-year-old student who murdered a classmate and his classmate's parents in their family home. Died by suicide in prison in 2017 at State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill.
Scott Williams 20083 life sentences without paroleSerial killer active in North Carolina.
Craig Stephen Hicks20193 life sentences without parolePerpetrator of the 2015 Chapel Hill shooting. [168]
Peter Dupas 20103 life sentences without paroleConvicted of murder and primarily for being a serious habitual offender.
Aaron Schaffhausen 20133 life sentences without paroleKilled his three daughters to spite his ex-wife.
Anthony Wayne Smith 20163 life sentences without paroleFormer National Football League player and serial killer convicted of three murders between 1999 and 2001; acquitted of a fourth murder in 2008.
David Brom 19893 life sentences without parole for 56 yearsKilled his parents, brother and sister with an axe near Rochester, Minnesota.
T.J. Lane20133 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2012 Chardon High School shooting. [169]
Adam Purinton20183 life sentencesPerpetrator of the 2017 Olathe shooting. [170]
Pierre Williams 20083 life sentences without parole for 38 yearsBeat his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend's two children to death with a ball-peen hammer in the victims' own home. After the crimes, he made a paste with their blood and coconut oil, apparently inspired by Biblical sacrifices.
David Bieber 20043 life sentences without parole for 37 yearsAmerican fugitive who murdered a police constable and attempted to murder two others in Leeds.
Paul Denyer 19933 life sentences without parole for 30 yearsSerial killer known as "the Frankston Killer."
Gregory Brazel 20053 life sentences without parole for 30 yearsConfessed the murders of two prostitutes in 1990 and of a store employee during a robbery in 1982.
Phillip Austin 20013 life sentences without parole for 20 yearsKilled his wife and two children.
Ian Brady 19663 life sentencesSerial killer, perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Died in prison in 2017. [171]
Frederick Pete Cox 20033 life sentencesMurdered 3 women and attacked 2 others in 1997 in Orlando, Florida. [172]
Javier Hernán Pino 2015–20173 life sentencesSerial killer who befriended and deceived five people into trusting him, before shooting them in the head with a silenced pistol and robbing them of their belongings.
Jerry Brudos 19693 life sentencesSerial killer known as "the Shoe Fetish Slayer" because of his compulsive attraction to women's shoes. Confessed to four murders but was convicted of only three because the first body was never found. Died of cancer at Oregon State Penitentiary in 2006. [173]
Bernard Pesquet 19823 life sentencesSerial killer known as "The Landru of Val-d'Oise".
Bernhard Prigan 19533 life sentencesSerial killer known as "The Highway Killer" who killed at least three women between the end of the 1940s and the early 1950s. Unlike today, a total sentence of several life imprisonments was not yet formed.
W. A. Boyle 19743 life sentencesPresident of the United Mine Workers of America, found guilty of hiring hitmen to kill a challenger for his position, Joseph Yablonski, in 1969; Yablonski's wife and daughter were also killed. Died in prison in 1985.
Jacques Plumain 20063 life sentencesSerial killer known as "The Ghost of Kehl"
Jeffrey R. MacDonald 19793 life sentencesMedical doctor who murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
Reggie Gross 19893 life sentences Heavyweight boxer incarcerated in South Carolina for murdering three people over a card game.
Keith Hunter Jesperson 19953 life sentencesSerial killer known as "The Happy Face Killer."
Chevie Kehoe 19993 life sentences White supremacist convicted of the murder of a family of three. His accomplice, Daniel Lewis Lee was sentenced to death for the same crime.
Sef Gonzales 20043 life sentences Filipino immigrant who killed his father, mother and sister in North Ryde, New South Wales, and tried to disguise the murders as hate crimes.
Juan Covington 20053 life sentencesSerial killer active in Philadelphia.
James Ford Seale 20073 life sentences Ku Klux Klan member convicted for the 1964 kidnapping of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in Meadville, Mississippi, who were subsequently murdered. The sentence was overturned in 2008, arguing that the statute of limitations had run out, but was later reinstated in 2009. Died in prison in 2011.
Eiken Elam Saimon 20073 life sentences Micronesian national who opened fire on a church congregation in Neosho, Missouri, two days after raping a fourteen-year-old girl.
Manfred Wittmann 19713 life sentencesSerial killer known as "The Staffelstein Killer".
Dudley Wayne Kyzer19812 life sentences plus 10,000 yearsConvicted of killing his estranged wife, Diane Kyzer, his mother-in-law, Eunice Barringer, and college student Rick Pyron who just happened to be at the Barringer home in Alabama on Halloween in 1976. [174] Received 10,000 years for the murder of his wife and 2 life sentences for the other two killings. [175]
James Alex Fields Jr. 20192 life sentences plus 419 yearsPerpetrator of the Charlottesville car attack. [176]
Robert Lee Yates 20002 life sentences without parole plus 408 yearsSerial killer who pled guilty to 13 murders in order to avoid the death penalty. Was sentenced to two death penalties the following year for other murders, but they will not be carried out until the earlier sentence is completed. But they commuted to 2 life sentences without parole.
Eugene de Kock 1996 [177] 2 life sentences plus 212 years South African Police (SAP) colonel during apartheid era who was the leader of the secret Counterinsurgence Unit 10, also known as C10 or "Vlakplaas", which abducted, tortured and murdered hundreds of anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s. Personally found guilty of 89 charges, including six murders. [177] Was granted parole in 2015. [178]
Leslie Alfred Camilleri 19972 life sentences plus 183 years without paroleVictorian prison escapee and perpetrator of the Bega Schoolgirl Murders. Also convicted of the 1992 murder of Prue Bird.
John Timothy Earnest20212 life sentences plus 167 years.Perpetrator of the Escondido mosque fire and Poway synagogue shooting. Earnest was first convicted by the State of California to a life sentence without parole, a separate 121 years-to-life sentence, and a further 16 years. [179] A few months later, he was given life without parole plus 30 years in federal court. [180]
Gabe Parker 20202 life sentences without parole for 20 years plus 70 yearsPerpetrator of the Marshall County High School Shooting. [181] [182] [183] [184] [185]
Ronald A. Baker20122 life sentences without parole plus 65 yearsFormer Seminole, FL, police officer who repeatedly sexually assaulted his daughter from age 8 until she was 17. He also photographed his sexual assaults. [186] [187]
Alparslan Arslan 20062 life sentences plus 60 yearsMurderer of Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and one of the bombers of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
Naser Jason Abdo 20122 consecutive life sentences plus 60 years without paroleAttempted to commit a terrorist attack against a restaurant in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2011.
John Albert Gardner 20102 life sentences plus 49+ years (one sentence of 24 years and another of 25 years to life)Serial rapist and murderer of teenage girls in California.
Jake Thomas Patterson20192 life sentences without parole plus 40 yearsPerpetrator of the Kidnapping of Jayme Closs. [188]
Matthew James Harris 20002 life sentences plus 40 years without paroleSerial killer. Tried to overdose twice before his arrest.
Ross Ulbricht 20152 life sentences plus 40 years without paroleConvicted of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise in United States federal court for operating the Silk Road darknet site.
Michael Boatwright 20182 life sentences without parole plus 30 years Murdered 20-year old rapper and singer-songwriter Jahseh Onfroy, a.k.a. XXXTentacion
Richard Lee McNair 19882 life sentences plus 30 yearsKilled a man and attempted to kill another during a botched burglary.
Marlon Legere 20062 life sentences without parole plus 26 yearsMurderer of two NYPD detectives. Evaded the death penalty because it was abolished in the State of New York three months before his trial.
Anders Eklund 20082 life sentences without parole plus 22 yearsMurderer and rapist convicted of killing a 31-year-old woman in 2000 and a 10-year-old girl in 2008.
Adnan Darwiche 20062 life sentences without parole plus 20 yearsConvicted in the Darwiche–Razzak–Fahda family conflict trial.
Sarah Marie Johnson20052 life sentences without parole plus 15 years Murdered her parents Diane and Alan Scott in 2003 when she was 16. Also convicted for enhancing the firearm she used in committing the parricide.
Gerry Kelly 19732 life sentences plus 20 yearsPIRA member, convicted when he was nineteen years old, for his part in a plot to detonate four car bombs in London, two of which exploded successfully and injured 200 people. Became a politician for Sinn Féin following his release in 1989, and was one of the leading Republican negotiators of the Good Friday Agreement.
Beh Meng Chai19842 life sentences plus 20 years (all concurrent)Found guilty of the double manslaughter of Teo Keng Siang and Lee Cheng Tiong in the 1980 Jurong fishing port murders. Also received 24 strokes of the cane. [189] [190]
Myra Hindley 19662 life sentences plus 7 yearsPerpetrator of the Moors Murders along with her boyfriend, Ian Brady. Died in prison in 2002.
Trystan Terrell20192 life sentences without parolePerpetrator of the 2019 University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting. [191]
Wayne Lo 19942 life sentences without parole Taiwanese-born perpetrator of the 1992 Simon's Rock College of Bard shooting, in which one student and one professor died, and four students were wounded.
Johnny Avalos 20192 life sentences without parole.Raped and murdered five people around the San Antonio area between 2012 and 2015. [192]
Mark Valera 20002 life sentences without paroleDouble murderer.
Ward Weaver III 20042 life sentences without paroleDouble murderer and rapist.
Raymond Glen Bassett19932 life sentences without parole for 34 yearsSpree killer captured after the 1993 Cangai Siege. Sentenced in New South Wales for three counts of accessory to murder, and in Queensland for two murders.
John Sharpe 20052 life sentences without parole for 33 yearsMurdered his wife and daughter. Held in solitary due to threats made to him by other prisoners.
Bilal Abdullah 20092 life sentences without parole for 32 yearsPerpetrator of the 2007 London car bombs plot and the Glasgow Airport Attack.
Lloyd Crosbie 20032 life sentences without parole for 30 yearsMurdered his girlfriend and his girlfriend's mother so he could be together with his older brothers in prison.
Ben William McLean 20052 life sentences without parole for 25 yearsKilled two Thai prostitutes in Darwin and claimed that the Hells Angels had forced them to commit the crimes.
Phu Ngoc Trinh 2 life sentences without parole for 25 years
Gerald Mason 20032 life sentences without parole for 7 years South Carolina gas station owner convicted in a notorious decades-long cold case, the murder of two police officers in El Segundo, California, in 1957. Died in prison in 2017.
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai 19082 life sentences Tamil shipping magnate and political leader imprisoned for sedition against the British colonial government. During his imprisonment he was subjected to harsh labor despite it not being part of his sentence. Though released in 1912, he found that his company had been liquidated the previous year.
Antonio Correa Cotto Before 19502 life sentencesIncarcerated for two murders in Ponce, after which he led a prison riot and escape. After murdering an unknown number of prison guards and ten other people outside the prison over the course of two years, he was located in a farm by police and killed in a shootout.
Frank Wetzel19572 life sentencesConvicted for the murders of two highway patrolmen when he was driving to Mississippi to break his brother out of death row. His brother was executed two months later. Wetzel died of Alzheimer's disease in 2012, still in prison. [193] [194]
J. J. Jameson 19612 life sentencesOriginally arrested in 1960 for the killing of a store clerk, Jameson murdered a prison guard and escaped before trial, but was arrested again when he was robbing a grocery store. One of the life sentences was commuted in 1975 by the state governor, Michael Dukakis. He escaped again in 1985 and wasn't recaptured until 2005.
Ancell E. Hamm19722 life sentencesMember of Bruce Johnston's gang, convicted of murdering two policemen.
Marian Price 19732 life sentences Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade member, sentenced for her part in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing. Released in 1980.
Leonard Peltier 19772 life sentencesConvicted for the murders of two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation standoff. Some consider him a political prisoner.
Steven Benson 19852 life sentencesKilled his mother and brother, and gravely injured his sister with a car bomb. Died in prison in 2015.
Jack Carlton Reed 19872 life sentencesPilot who smuggled cocaine from Norman's Cay in the Bahamas to Florida on behalf of Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder. Sentence shortened to time served and released in 2009, shortly before he died.
Richard Kuklinski 19882 life sentences Contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia.
Dorothea Puente 19882 life sentencesBoarding house director who murdered her elderly and mentally disabled boarders in order to cash on their Social Security checks. Died in prison in 2011.
Jens Söring 19902 life sentencesSon of a West German diplomat convicted of murdering the parents of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Haysom, a Canadian citizen. Söring and Haysom were arrested in the United Kingdom and extradited to the United States on the condition that neither would face the death penalty. Haysom was sentenced to 90 years in prison in return for testifying against Söring, who denies responsibility. Söring has been released and has been deported to Germany in December 2019.
Christopher Scarver 19942 life sentencesConvicted to two life sentences for the prison murders of two other inmates, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson, who had murdered his wife and tried to incriminate two innocent men. Scarver was already serving a life sentence for murder at the time.
Theresa Knorr 19952 life sentencesTortured and murdered two of her six children and used the others to cover up her crimes.
Robert Joseph Silveria Jr. 19962 life sentencesSerial killer and member of the Freight Train Riders of America, nicknamed "the Boxcar Killer". Attributed 9–14 murders, claims 24 himself.
Caleb Fairley 19962 life sentencesClothing store clerk who abducted a mother and her child when they were shopping there, and murdered both after raping the woman.
William Leonard Pickard 19992 life sentencesLargest manufacturer of LSD in the US at the time of his arrest.
Rodney Berget 20032 life sentencesConvicted of kidnapping and attempted murder in 2003. Executed in 2018 for the 2012 murder of a corrections officer during a failed prison escape attempt at South Dakota State Penitentiary.
Amy Hebert 20092 life sentencesMurdered her children, Camille and Braxton, to punish her ex-husband. [195]
V. V. Hamsa20102 life sentencesFound guilty of the abduction and murder of progressive Islamic cleric Chekannur Maulavi in Edappal, Kerala in 1993. 9 other people were also charged in this case but found innocent.
Michael Joe Nordman 20122 consecutive life sentencesReceived one life term for raping a young girl in 1990, and also given a second life term for the 2012 murder of a corrections officer at South Dakota State Penitentiary. [196]
Soh Wee Kian 20132 life sentencesFound guilty of the brutal manslaughter of Hoe Hong Lin and the stabbing of How Poh Ling. [197]
Ahmad Khan Rahimi 20182 life sentences without parolePerpetrator of 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings, in which 35 people were injured.
Alex Murdaugh 20232 consecutive life sentences without paroleKilled his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul Murdaugh in 2021.

Prisoners sentenced to one life sentence plus additional time

NameSentence startSentence termCountryDescription
Devon Erickson 2021Life without parole plus 1,282 yearsCo-perpetrator of the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, during which 18-year-old student Kendrick Castillo was killed as he and other classmates tackled Erickson to the ground. He was convicted on 46 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and supplying a juvenile with a handgun. [198]
Bryan Cage2021Life without parole plus 1,248 yearsConvicted in May 2021 of attempted capital murder of a police officer and numerous child pornography, weapon, and drug offenses. [199]
Ariel Castro 2013Life without parole plus 1,000 yearsSerial rapist who abducted and held three young women captive in his Cleveland, Ohio, home for over a decade. Pled guilty to 900 counts of kidnapping and rape in order to avoid a possible death sentence for inducing five miscarriages on one of his victims through violence, poisoning and starvation. Hanged himself in prison, only one month into his sentence. He could have got death penalty plus 9846 years and 6 months if convicted.
Bruce Rykeisedagiquan Chambers2017Life without parole plus 245 yearsMembers of the 64 Brims gang. Chambers shot and seriously injured a 20-year-old man in 2017 during a gang-related armed robbery, which Salaam oversaw and approved, the release said. Chambers was convicted of 14 felonies, while Salaam was found guilty of six. [200]
Ishmael Abdultaliv SalaamLife without parole plus 100 years
Ramzi Yousef 1998Life without parole plus 240 yearsPerpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 and co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot.
Carlos Lehder 1987Life plus 135 years Colombian drug lord who co-founded the Medellín Cartel and the paramilitary group Muerte a Secuestradores. Sentence reduced to 55 years in 1992 in exchange for testifying against Manuel Noriega.
Peter Scully 2018Life plus 129 years Australian sex offender charged in 2015 with rape, human trafficking, production and dissemination of child pornography, and torture of 75 children, as well as the alleged murder of an 11-year-old girl. Sentenced to life in prison in 2018, and received an additional 129 years for a second conviction in 2022.
Sante Kimes 1998Life plus 125 years without parole Con artist convicted of murdering two people. Died in prison in 2014.
Naveed Afzal Haq2009Life plus 120 yearsPerpetrator of the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting.
Nathan Dunlap 2020Life without parole plus 108 yearsPerpetrator of the 1993 Aurora, Colorado, shooting. Originally sentenced to death later commuted to life. [201] [202]
Hamdi Quran 2007Life plus 100 years PFLP member convicted for the murder of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi.
Ralph "Bucky" Phillips 2006Life without parole plus 80 yearsFugitive from Erie County jail who shot three New York State Troopers, killing one.
Allan Baker 1973Life plus 55 yearsBurglars who became friends in prison and killed a man and a woman after being paroled, and shot at police, wounding an officer before surrendering after a siege. The woman was also abducted, repeatedly raped and tortured by both.
Kevin Crump Life plus 55 years
John Travers1987Life plus 65 yearsMurderers of Anita Cobby. All except Gary Murphy (life plus 48 years) were originally sentenced to life plus 50 years: Michael Murphy's sentence was ordered to commence on the expiration of a 25-year sentence previously imposed. Travers, Gary Murphy, and Les Murphy have since been sentenced to additional time for other offending prior to the murder and in prison. Michael Murphy died in prison in February 2019.
Michael Murdoch1987Life plus 50 years
Michael Murphy1987Life plus 75 years
Gary Murphy1987Life plus 50 years
Les Murphy1987Life plus 66 years
Attina Marie Cannaday 1984Life plus 50 yearsOriginally sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of a man; the sentence was changed because she was only sixteen at the time. Paroled in 2008.
Luis Felipe 1997 [203] Life plus 45 yearsFounder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings, convicted of ordering several murders while he was already in prison. Serves his sentence in solitary confinement.
Bruce Burrell 2006Life plus 44 yearsConvicted of murdering two women though their bodies were never found. Died in prison in 2016.
Granville Ritchie2020Life without parole plus 40 yearsRitchie, a Jamaican man, has been arrested first for possessing MDMA, then after he killed 9 year old Felicia Williams, he had possessed 20+ grams of marijuana. He was sentenced to death for her murder. Then, Judge Sisco gave Life without parole for the rape, and then 30 years were added to the aggravated child abuse, and 5 years for each drug possession. [204] [205]
Eric Hainstock2007Life without parole for 30 yearsPerpetrator of the 2006 Weston High School shooting. [206]
Bernadette McNeilly1993Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 yearsMurderers of Suzanne Capper.
Jean PowellLife without parole 25 years, plus 40 years
Glyn PowellLife without parole 25 years, plus 40 years
Somchai Wisetsingh2004Life plus 33 years and 4 monthsPolice officer convicted of murdering two British backpackers after an argument.
Yishai Schlissel 2015Life plus 31 yearsReligious extremist convicted of stabbing six people during a pride parade, killing one of them. Had gone on a previous stabbing rampage in 2005.
Sundiata Acoli 1974Life plus 30 yearsMember of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Convicted for the death of a New Jersey state trooper during a shooting in which Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed and Assata Shakur was wounded.
Joaquin Guzman 2019Life plus 30 yearsDrug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel
Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik 2007Life without parole plus 30 yearsMurdered classmate Cassie Jo Stoddart in her aunt and uncle's home on September 22, 2006. [207]
Arthur Hosein1970Life plus 25 yearsKidnapper and presumed murderer of Muriel McKay.
Antonis Daglis 1997Life plus 25 yearsSerial killer known as "the Athens Ripper." Killed himself seven months after his conviction.
Étienne Dedroog 2014Life plus 25 yearsSerial killer known as "The Lodgers' Killer" and "B&B Murderer". Sentenced to Life by Belgium but 25 years by France.
Juri Sulimov 1994Life plus 25 yearsSerial killer who killed 2 prisoners and 1 civilian. Previously sentenced to death but his sentence for the murder of the last victim had been commuted to Life. He was also given 15 years for the second murder, 5 years for the first murder, and 5 years for the attempted murder.
Patrick Soultana 2013Life plus 25 yearsSerial killer convicted of 2 murders and 1 attempted murder.
Esa Åkerlund 2010Life plus 23 years and 6 monthsSerial killer responsible for the Porvoo triple murder.
John Leonard Orr 1998Life plus 20 years without paroleSerial arsonist who worked as a fire captain in Glendale, California. Four people died in fires that he caused.
Gregory and Travis McMichael 2021Life plus 20 yearsPerpetrators of the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
Junior Kabunda 2009Life plus 25 yearsSerial killer known as "The Monster of Brussels"
Allan Legere 1990Life without parole for 25 yearsRapist, Arsonist, and Serial killer known as "The Monster of the Miramichi"
Garrett Brock Trapnell 1972Life plus 20 years Con man, bank robber and aircraft hijacker skilled at faking insanity to get off previous charges. Died in prison in 1993.
Audrey Marie Hilley 1983Life plus 20 yearsCon woman who poisoned her relatives to cash on their life insurance policies. Convicted of murdering her last husband and attempting to murder their daughter. Died in 1987 from hypothermia suffered during an escape attempt.
Rémy Roy 1996Life plus 20 yearsSerial killer known as "The Minitel Killer".
Wayne DuMond 1985Life plus 20 yearsEx-Marine who raped 17 year-old cheerleader Ashley Stevens in Arkansas, a third cousin of then governor Bill Clinton. Before trial, DuMond was castrated in his own home and his testicles were subsequently flushed down a toilet by a local sheriff. The sentence was reduced to 39 years in 1992, and DuMond was later paroled in 1999.
Erika Sifrit 2003Life plus 20 yearsMurdered two tourists from Virginia in Maryland. Her husband and accomplice was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
Warren Jeffs 2011Life plus 20 years Polygamous cult leader found guilty of raping two child brides aged 15 and 12.
Abdul Nasir Amer Hamsah1996–1997Life plus 18 yearsFound guilty of the kidnapping of two policemen and causing the death of a Japanese tourist during a robbery. Also received 30 strokes of the cane
Nizamodeen Hosein1970Life plus 15 yearsKidnapper and presumed murderer of Muriel McKay.
El Sayyid Nosair 1994Life plus 15 yearsConvicted for his part in the New York City landmark bomb plot. Also tried for the assassination of Meir Kahane but acquitted.
Omar Abdel-Rahman 1996Life plus 15 yearsKnown as "the Blind Sheikh." Alleged leader of al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya convicted of seditious conspiracy for his part in the foiled New York City landmark bomb plot. Died at Federal Medical Center, Butner in 2017.
Yigal Amir 1996Life plus 14 yearsMurderer of Yitzhak Rabin.
Per Kristian Liland 1970Life plus 10 yearsKnown substance abuser in Fredrikstad.
James Charles Kopp 2007Life plus 10 yearsMember of The Lambs of Christ who sniped a physician providing abortions, Barnett Slepian.
Tom Menheniott 1977Life plus 5 yearsPhysically abused and murdered his eighteen-year-old son, who had learning difficulties, in the Isles of Scilly. The case called into question the way the victim was dealt with by social services and led to questions in the British Parliament and an inquiry.

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