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Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia was the leader of the Jalisco international drug-trafficking organization, who was convicted in 2023 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
His last-minute appeal to Lincoln, seeking life imprisonment instead of the death penalty, went nowhere.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
As supporters of the death penalty, a rare sentence that KSM deserves, we were resigned to a permanent life imprisonment for these fiends.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
Leung, a 78-year-old U.S. citizen, was detained in China in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2023 on espionage charges.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
His last-minute appeal to Lincoln, seeking life imprisonment instead of the death penalty, went nowhere.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
As supporters of the death penalty, a rare sentence that KSM deserves, we were resigned to a permanent life imprisonment for these fiends.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
Leung, a 78-year-old U.S. citizen, was detained in China in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2023 on espionage charges.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Life imprisonment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20imprisonment. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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