All news on the topic: Life sentence

The aunt of a toddler who was murdered by her mother's new boyfriend has called on MPs to stand up and "make change happen" when they debate a new law aimed at saving other children from abusive partners.

A woman from the United States, who attempted to disguise herself with a niqab and tried to shoot a random person in the street, only for the firearm to fail, is now looking at a potential life imprisonment

A man has been sentenced to prison for raping and murdering his ex-fiancée, who had agreed to celebrate his 60th birthday as a 'last act of kindness' before proceeding with her life

Evil triple shotgun murderer Nicholas Prosper has been spared a whole life sentence for a second time after senior judges agreed his 49-year term was not ‘unduly lenient’.

A killer has been jailed for life after stabbing a man to death in an "unprovoked and senseless" attack in a south London car park.

Anthony Martinez has been sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder in the starvation death of his six-year-old son Deshaun in 2020 with his wife also receiving a similar sentence

Montreanna has no regrets over rekindling her romance with her childhood sweetheart after learning that he had been sentenced to life in prison without parole

Texas has executed death row inmate Ramiro Gonzales for the kidnapping, sexual assault, and fatal shooting of the 18-year-old girlfriend of his drug dealer, Bridget Townsend after Gonzales himself led police to her remains while serving life sentence for another murder

Shocked by the tragic murder Brianna Ghey, Emma Mills, 43, has mounted a quest to educate parents on how to keep kids away from social media and monitor their behaviour online

Bardia Shojaeifard was found guilty of stabbing teenager Alfie Lewis through the heart on the way home from school in the Horsforth area of Leeds last November

Psychopath Joanna Dennehy is serving a life sentence for murdering three men 'just for fun' and planned an horrific attack on a prison guard in an attempt to escape jail

Paul McNaughton killed 75-year-old Peter Coshan in a flat in Leith, Scotland, after using a fake profile on a gay dating app to lure him to the address. He had hatched a plot to kill the retired biology teacher

Olivia Pratt-Korbel, aged nine, was killed in her home when she was caught in the crossfire of a shooting in 2022. Last week the youngster, described as beautiful and sassy, should have celebrated her 11th birthday

Justina Bobmanuel was taking a bath when she suddenly heard a ‘pop’ drift in from her window - and made horrifying discovery when she followed the sound outside

Andrew McVicar was 15 when he murdered Tony Harrington, 20, by slashing his throat with a broken bottle. Nineteen years later the thug got life again for shoving Tim Smith during a burglary

Pamela Smart, the inspiration behind Nicole Kidman's role in 'To Die For', was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a student, 15, who later fatally shot her husband Gregory Smart

Rebecca Grossman, the wife of a prominent Los Angeles burn doctor, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the death of two young boys

Alabama is seeking to carry out another nitrogen gas execution, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method in the execution of Kenneth Smith

Rebecca Grossman, the former girlfriend of a Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, was convicted of a horrific hit-and-run crash after a boozy lunch that killed two young boys

The Mirror's Justice for Our Daughter's campaign called for longer prison sentences for those who kill partners inside the home, and one grieving mum has now revealed how important it is

The Mirror's Justice for Our Daughter's campaign called for longer prison sentences for those who kill partners inside the home - and now the Conservatives have pledged to conduct a review into homicide laws

Zoe Rider, 36, and Nicola Lethbridge, 45, attacked 60-year-old Stephen Koszyczarski subjecting their neighbour, who was assessed as having learning difficulties, to a horrific ordeal while filming it

Rashane Douglas, 19, stabbed Haidar Shah, 19, Joshua Clark, 21, and Brandon Coupe, 18, in the chest within seconds of each other following a row outside a nightclub in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of October 1 last year