List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment

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 10 life sentences
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description
Terry Nichols 1995 162 life sentences plus 93 years without parole  United States Convicted 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]
Michael J. Devlin 2007 74 life sentences, minimum 2,020 years  United States Convicted 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 2004 67 life sentences plus 5,200 years without parole  Palestine Commander 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 U.S.
Brenton Tarrant 2020 52 life sentences plus 480 years without parole  New Zealand Pleaded gulity 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.
Gary Ridgway 2003 49 life sentences (48 of them without parole) plus 480 years  United States Serial killer known as the "Green River Killer", who confessed to have murdered 71 prostitutes between 1982 and 1998. Most prolific serial killer in US history.
Loi Khac Nguyen 1991 49 consecutive life sentences without parole  United States Surviving perpetrator of the 1991 Good Guys siege. Convicted of three murders, 11 attempted murders and 35 counts of kidnapping.
Martin Bryant 1996 35 life sentences plus 1,035 years without parole  Australia 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 28 April 1996.[2] 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.
Billy Joe Godfrey 2015 35 life sentences, minimum 1,050 years  United States Charged 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.[3][4]
Warren Troy Knopp 2017 32 life sentences plus 170 years  South Africa Found guilty of 870 charges of child rape, exploitation, sexual assault and child pornography.[5]
Bobby Joe Long 1985 28 life sentences plus 104 years  United States Serial killer who raped more than 50 women and killed over 25. 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.[6]
Donald Harvey 1987 28 life sentences  United States Hospital orderly who claimed to have murdered 87 people in Toledo, Ohio. Murdered in prison in 2017.
Cedric Maake 2000 27 life sentences plus 1,159 years and 3 months  South Africa Serial 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 1993 26 life sentences  Italy Reputed "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, nicknamed "The Beast". Believed to have ordered over 150 murders in Italy.[7] Served his sentence in solitary confinement[8] until his death in prison in 2017, the day after his 87th birthday.
Andrew Aston 2002 26 life sentences  United Kingdom 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 1973 25 life sentences without parole  United States A Mexican-born labor contractor, Corona murdered 25 non-Hispanic vagrants and occasional farm workers and buried them in orchards of California between 1970 and 1971. Died of natural causes in 2019.[9]
Richard Huckle 2015 22 life sentences, minimum 25 years  United Kingdom Sexually abused 23 children in Malaysia over a ten-year period. Murdered in prison in 2019.[10]
Patrick Kearney 1977 21 life sentences  United States One of three different serial killers with the nickname "The Freeway Killer" that targeted male hitchhikers in California during the 1970s, the others being William Bonin and Randy Steven Kraft.
Chester Stiles 2009 21 life sentences, minimum 140 years  United States Former 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.[11][12]
Bernardo Provenzano 2006 20 life sentences plus 49 years and one month and solitary confinement for 33 years and six months[13]  Italy Member of the Sicilian Mafia, at first Salvatore Riina's right-hand man, then, after Riina's arrest, "boss of bosses". Died in 2016 while imprisoned.
Peter Sutcliffe 1981 20 life sentences without parole for 30 years  United Kingdom Serial killer known as "the Yorkshire Ripper."
Charles Cullen 2006 19 life sentences without parole for 497 years  United States Nurse who confessed to have killed 40 patients in the span of 16 years.
Benjamin Geen 2006 17 life sentences without parole for 30 years  United Kingdom Male nurse who injected 17 patients with muscle relaxants. Seven underwent respiratory arrests as a result and two died.
David Randitsheni 2009 16 life sentences plus 220 years  South Africa Serial killer who abducted, raped and murdered children. Hanged himself three weeks after conviction.
Jeffrey Dahmer 1992 16 life sentences  United States Serial killer known as "the Milwaukee Cannibal", also killed one victim in Ohio in 1978. Murdered in prison in 1994.
Harold Shipman 2000 15 life sentences plus 4 years  United Kingdom Medical doctor believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in the world, with more than 218 victims. Killed himself in prison.
Robert Hanssen 2001 15 life sentences without parole  United States FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for 22 years.
Leoluca Bagarella 1995 13 life sentences plus 106 years and ten months and solitary confinement for 6 years[13]  Italy Member of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Riina's brother-in-law.
Donato Bilancia 2000 13 life sentences without parole  Italy Serial killer active in the Italian Riviera.
Michael Wheatley 2002 13 life sentences plus 65 years without parole for 8 years  United Kingdom Violent robber known as "the Skull-Cracker." Escaped briefly from prison in 2014, but was recaptured.[14]
Beverley Allitt 1993 13 life sentences  United Kingdom Nurse who fatally poisoned four children at a Lincolnshire hospital and attempted to kill nine others.
Timothy Krajcir 2008 13 life sentences  United States Serial killer who murdered nine women in Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Sentence resulting from a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
James Eagan Holmes 2015 12 life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole  United States Mass 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.
Roger Kingsley Dean 2011 11 life sentences plus 12 years without parole  Australia Set fire to Quakers Hill Nursing Home, where he worked as a nurse, to cover up his theft of painkillers. 11 patients died and eight others were injured in the blaze.
Joe O'Connell 1977 12 life sentences without parole (each)  United Kingdom Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Edward Butler
Harry Duggan
Hugh Doherty 11 life sentences without parole
Benjamin Atkins 1992 11 life sentences  United States Serial 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.
John Justin Bunting 2003 11 life sentences without parole  Australia Ringleader and main perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
James Ruppert 1975 11 life sentences  United States Perpetrator of the "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.
George Harold Davis 2004 11 life sentences  United States Opened 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.

Prisoners sentenced up to 10 life sentences
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera 1991 10 life sentences plus 45 years without parole  United States Chief assassin of the Medellin Cartel, responsible of the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 among others.
Robert Joe Wagner 2003 10 life sentences without parole  Australia Perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
Robert Bates 1979 10 life sentences  United Kingdom Member of the Shankill Butchers who tortured and murdered Catholics in Belfast (or people that the gang believed to be Catholic, but weren't).
Jean-Paul Akayesu 1998 9 life sentences, minimum 25 years  United Nations Found guilty of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Serves his sentence in a Mali prison.
Sean Kelly 1995 9 life sentences  United Kingdom Member 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.
Sibusiso Duma 2009 8 life sentences plus 139 years  South Africa Taxi driver and serial killer who used his vehicle to procure new victims and sometimes kill them.
Ted Kaczynski 1998 8 life sentences plus 30 years without parole  United States Anarchistic terrorist who killed three and injured 23 with parcel bombs.
Patrick Magee 1986 8 life sentences without parole for 35 years  United Kingdom IRA 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.
Edmund Kemper 1973 8 life sentences  United States Serial killer nicknamed "The Co-Ed Butcher."
Nairi Hunanyan 1999 8 life sentences  Armenia Perpetrators 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 Hunanyan 8 life sentences
Vram Galstyan 8 life sentences
Derenik Ejanyan 8 life sentences
Eduard Grigoryan 8 life sentences
Scott Evans Dekraai 2011 8 life sentences  United States Perpetrator of 2011 Seal Beach shooting.
Ronald Dominique 2008 8 life sentences  United States Serial killer who raped and murdered over 23 men in Louisiana.
Jeffrey Kollie 1996 7 life sentences plus 265 years  United States Convicted 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.[15][16]
Ryan Brandt 7 life sentences plus 265 years
Torrens Knight 1993 8 life sentences  United Kingdom 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.
Ivan Milat 1996 7 life sentences plus 18 years without parole  Australia Perpetrator of the Backpacker murders.
Walter E. Ellis 2011 7 life sentences without parole  United States Serial killer known as the "Milwaukee North Side Strangler." Died in prison in 2013.
Samuel Sidyno 2000 7 life sentences without parole for 40 years  South Africa Serial killer who raped and murdered two women and five boys near Pretoria Zoo between 1998 and 1999.
Antoni Imiela 2004 7 life sentences without parole for 8 years  United Kingdom Serial rapist active over a large area of southern England.
Stewart Wilken 1998 7 life sentences  South Africa Serial 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.
Ami Popper 1991 7 life sentences  Israel 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.
Chai Vang 2004 6 life sentences plus 70 years without parole  United States California National Guard veteran who killed six hunters and wounded another two during a hunting trip to northern Wisconsin.
Malcolm George Baker 1992 6 life sentences plus 25 years without parole  Australia Perpetrator of the Central Coast massacre.
John Wayne Glover 1990 6 life sentences without parole  Australia Serial killer of elderly women in Sydney. Hanged himself in prison in 2005.
Lee Boyd Malvo 2006 6 life sentences without parole  United States Accomplice of John Allen Muhammad in the Beltway Sniper killings. Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.
Efren Saldivar 2002 6 life sentences without parole  United States Serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist.
Zacarias Moussaoui 2006 6 life sentences without parole  United States French Moroccan who pleaded guilty to conspiring to take part in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Terry Blair 2008 6 life sentences without parole  United States Serial killer and rapist active in Kansas City, Missouri.
James William Miller 1980 6 life sentences with non-parole period of 35 years  Australia Accomplice of Christopher Worrell in the Truro murders. Worrell died in a car accident before capture, and Miller died in prison of cancer in 2008.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. 1975 6 life sentences without parole for 25 years  United States Perpetrator of the Amityville family massacre.
Elmer Wayne Henley 1974 6 life sentences  United States Teenage accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll in the Houston Mass Murders, whom he also killed in self-defence.
David Berkowitz 1978 6 life sentences  United States Serial killer of couples known as "Son of Sam" and "the .44 Caliber Killer."
John Childs 1979 6 life sentences  United Kingdom Contract killer.
Bruce Johnston 1981 6 life sentences  United States Philadelphia gang leader convicted of six murders and one attempt.
Daniel Gonzalez 2004 6 life sentences  United Kingdom Mentally ill spree killer. Committed suicide in prison.
Donald Neilson 1976 5 life sentences plus 61 years  United Kingdom Robber, kidnapper and murderer nicknamed "the Black Panther" for the balaclava that he wore during his attacks. Died in prison in 2011.
Samir Kuntar 1979 5 life sentences plus 47 years  Israel 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-Abras 5 life sentences plus 47 years
Marwan Barghouti 2004 5 life sentences plus 40 years  Israel Leader of the Second Intifada and alleged founder of Tanzim.
Leonard Fraser 1999 5 life sentences plus 25 years without parole  Australia Serial killer known as "the Rockhampton Rapist." Died in prison in 2007.
Robert Mark Steele 1993 5 life sentences plus 25 years without parole  Australia Spree killer captured after the 1993 Cangai siege. Hanged himself in prison in 1994.

Prisoners sentenced up to 5 life sentences
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description
Christopher Watts 2018 5 life sentences without parole plus 84 years  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.[17]
John List 1990 5 life sentences without parole  United States 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.
Lindsay Robert Rose 1998 5 life sentences without parole  Australia Serial killer and contract killer.
Faye Copeland 1999 5 life sentences without parole  United States Originally 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 1983 5 life sentences without parole for 30 years  Australia Truck driver who deliberately drove his vehicle into a crowded bar in Uluru, killing five.
William MacDonald 1963 5 life sentences  Australia Serial killer known as "the Sydney Mutilator." Died in prison in 2015.
Colin Ireland 1993 5 life sentences  United Kingdom Serial killer of homosexual men nicknamed "the Gay Slayer." Died in prison in 2012.
John Stanfa 1995 5 life sentences  United States Boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family between 1991 and 1995.
Kirby Logan Archer 2008 5 life sentences  United States Pled guilty to hijacking a fishing vessel and murdering its crew. Was found adrift in said vessel in 2007.
Gwendolyn Graham 1989 5 life sentences  United States Serial 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.
Richard Reid 2002 4 life sentences plus 110 years without parole  United States British Muslim convert known as "the Shoe Bomber" who conspired to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with concealed plastic explosives.
Nicolai Bonner 2005 4 life sentences plus 34 years  Israel Homeless 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 1985 4 life sentences plus 25 years without parole  Australia Stabbed a woman in 1982, and on 22 April 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 2001 4 life sentences without parole plus 20 years  United States Serial killer nurse who injected patients at the Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center with epinephrine, inducing heart attacks.
Michael Lupo 1987 4 life sentences plus 14 years  United Kingdom Serial killer known as "The Wolf Man", who murdered homosexual men in London. Died from AIDS-related complications in 1995.
Jeremy Strohmeyer 1998 4 life sentences without parole  United States Molested 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.
Mark Hobson 2005 4 life sentences without parole  United Kingdom 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.
Bandali Debs 2011 4 life sentences plus 27 years without parole  Australia Serial armed robber, perpetrator of the Silk-Miller police murders; also killed two sex workers.
James Spyridon Vlassakis 2003 4 life sentences without parole for 26 years  Australia Perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
David Birnie 1996 4 life sentences without parole for 20 years  Australia Perpetrators 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 2005 4 life sentences (two of them without parole)  United States Perpetrator of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
Denis Goldberg 1964 4 life sentences  South Africa Technical advisor to uMkhonto we Sizwe, convicted at the Rivonia Trial. Released in 1985.
David Johnston 1981 4 life sentences  United States Brothers of Bruce Johnston and members of his gang.
Norman Johnston 4 life sentences
Barry Mills 2006 4 life sentences  United States Leader of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Dudley Wayne Kyzer 1981 3 life sentences plus 10,000 years  United States Convicted 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.[18]
Sylvia Seegrist 1986 3 life sentences plus 70 years  United States Paranoid schizophrenic who opened fire in a shopping mall outside Philadelphia, killing three and injuring seven before being disarmed by another shopper.
Michael Kanaan 2001 3 life sentences plus 50 years and 4 months  Australia Serial killer.
John Cribb 1978 3 life sentences plus 45 years  Australia While 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 1985 3 life sentences plus 40 years  United States Brother 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 2017 3 life sentences plus 40 years  United States Two 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.
Peter Odighizuwa 2005 3 life sentences plus 28 years without parole  United States Perpetrator of the Appalachian School of Law shooting.
Natasha Wallen Cornett 1998 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole  United States Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Edward Dean Mullins 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Joseph Lance Risner 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Crystal R. Sturgill 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Jason Blake Bryant 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Karen R. Howell 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole
Ashley Coulston 1992 3 life sentences plus 7 years without parole  Australia Triple murderer and abductor. Also a suspect in the Balaclava Killings of 1979-1980.

Prisoners sentenced up to 3 life sentences
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description
Patrick Nogueira 2018 3 life sentences plus 25 years  Spain Brazilian 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.[19]
Martin Leach 1984 3 life sentences without parole  Australia Stabbed two teenage girls in Berry Springs, Northern Territory in a sexually motivated attack.
Dana Ewell 1992 3 life sentences without parole  United States Arranged the killings of his father, mother and sister with the intention to inherit the family fortune.
Michael Swango 2000 3 life sentences without parole  United States Physician who admitted to causing four deaths and suspected of sixty poisonings of patients.
Richard Timmons 2004 3 life sentences without parole  United States Fatally stabbed his stepson and decapitated his wife and son with an ax in Queens, New York.
Ramzi Aouad 2006 3 life sentences without parole  Australia Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial.
Naseam El-Zeyat 3 life sentences without parole
Alec Devon Kreider 2008 3 life sentences without parole  United States 16-year-old student who murdered a classmate and his classmate's parents in their family home. Committed suicide in prison in 2017.
Scott Williams 2008 3 life sentences without parole  United States Serial killer active in North Carolina.
Aaron Schaffhausen 2013 3 life sentences without parole  United States Killed his three daughters to spite his ex-wife.
David Brom 1989 3 life sentences without parole for 56 years  United States Killed his parents, brother and sister with an axe near Rochester, Minnesota.
Pierre Williams 2008 3 life sentences without parole for 38 years  United Kingdom Beat 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 2004 3 life sentences without parole for 37 years  United Kingdom American fugitive who murdered a police constable and attempted to murder two others in Leeds.
Paul Denyer 1993 3 life sentences without parole for 30 years  Australia Serial killer known as "the Frankston Killer."
Gregory Brazel 2005 3 life sentences without parole for 30 years  Australia Confessed the murders of two prostitutes in 1990 and of a store employee during a robbery in 1982.
Phillip Austin 2001 3 life sentences without parole for 20 years  United Kingdom Killed his wife and two children.
Ian Brady 1966 3 life sentences  United Kingdom Serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Died in prison in 2017.
Jerry Brudos 1969 3 life sentences  United States Serial 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 in prison, in 2006.[20]
W. A. Boyle 1974 3 life sentences  United States President 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.
Jeffrey R. MacDonald 1979 3 life sentences  United States Medical doctor who murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
Reggie Gross 1989 3 life sentences  United States Heavyweight boxer incarcerated in South Carolina for murdering three people over a card game.
Keith Hunter Jesperson 1995 3 life sentences  United States Serial killer known as "The Happy Face Killer."
Chevie Kehoe 1999 3 life sentences  United States White supremacist convicted of the murder of a family of three. An accomplice was sentenced to death for the same crime.
Sef Gonzales 2004 3 life sentences  Australia 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 2005 3 life sentences  United States Serial killer active in Philadelphia.
James Ford Seale 2007 3 life sentences  United States 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 2007 3 life sentences  United States Micronesian national who opened fire on a church congregation in Neosho, Missouri, two days after raping a fourteen-year-old girl.
Eugene de Kock 1996[21] 2 life sentences plus 212 years  South Africa 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.[21] Was granted parole in 2015.[22]
Leslie Alfred Camilleri 1997 2 life sentences plus 183 years without parole  Australia Victorian prison escapee and perpetrator of the Bega Schoolgirl Murders. Also convicted of the 1992 murder of Prue Bird.
Ronald A. Baker 2012 2 life sentences without parole plus 65 years  United States Former Seminole, FL, police officer who repeatedly sexually assaulted his daughter from age 8 until she was 17. He also photographed his sexual assaults.[23][24]
Alparslan Arslan 2006 2 life sentences plus 60 years  Turkey Murderer of Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and one of the bombers of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
John Albert Gardner 2010 2 life sentences plus 49+ years (one sentence of 24 years and another of 25 years to life)  United States Serial rapist and murderer of teenage girls in California.
Matthew James Harris 2000 2 life sentences plus 40 years without parole  Australia Serial killer. Tried to overdose twice before his arrest.
Ross Ulbricht 2015 2 life sentences plus 40 years without parole  United States Convicted of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise in United States federal court for operating the Silk Road darknet site.
Richard Lee McNair 1988 2 life sentences plus 30 years  United States Killed a man and attempted to kill another during a botched burglary.
Marlon Legere 2006 2 life sentences without parole plus 26 years  United States Murderer of two NYPD detectives. Evaded the death penalty because it was abolished in the State of New York three months before his trial.
Adnan Darwiche 2006 2 life sentences plus 20 years without parole  Australia Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial.
Gerry Kelly 1973 2 life sentences plus 20 years  United Kingdom PIRA 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.
Myra Hindley 1966 2 life sentences plus 7 years  United Kingdom Perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with her boyfriend, Ian Brady. Died in prison in 2002.
Wayne Lo 1994 2 life sentences without parole  United States 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.
Mark Valera 2000 2 life sentences without parole  Australia Double murderer.
Ward Weaver III 2004 2 life sentences without parole  United States Double murderer and rapist.
Raymond Glen Bassett 1993 2 life sentences without parole for 34 years  Australia Spree 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 2005 2 life sentences without parole for 33 years  Australia Murdered his wife and daughter. Held in solitary due to threats made to him by other prisoners.
Bilal Abdullah 2009 2 life sentences without parole for 32 years  United Kingdom Perpetrator of the 2007 London car bombs plot and the Glasgow Airport Attack.
Lloyd Crosbie 2003 2 life sentences without parole for 30 years  Australia Murdered his girlfriend and his girlfriend's mother so he could be together with his older brothers in prison.
Ben William McLean 2005 2 life sentences without parole for 25 years  Australia Killed 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 2003 2 life sentences without parole for 7 years  United States 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 1908 2 life sentences  India 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 1950 2 life sentences Puerto Rico Incarcerated 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 Wetzel 1957 2 life sentences  United States Convicted 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.[25][26]
J. J. Jameson 1961 2 life sentences  United States Originally 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. Hamm 1972 2 life sentences  United States Member of Bruce Johnston's gang, convicted of murdering two policemen.
Marian Price 1973 2 life sentences  United Kingdom Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade member, sentenced for her part in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing. Released in 1980.
Leonard Peltier 1977 2 life sentences  United States Convicted for the murders of two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation standoff. Some consider him a political prisoner.
Steven Benson 1985 2 life sentences  United States Killed his mother and brother, and gravely injured his sister with a car bomb. Died in prison in 2015.
Jack Carlton Reed 1987 2 life sentences  United States Pilot 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 1988 2 life sentences  United States Contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia.
Dorothea Puente 1988 2 life sentences  United States Boarding 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 1990 2 life sentences  United States Son 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 1994 2 life sentences  United States Convicted to two life sentences for the prison murders of two other immates, 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 1995 2 life sentences  United States Tortured and murdered two of her six children and used the others to cover up her crimes.
Robert Joseph Silveria Jr. 1996 2 life sentences  United States Serial killer and member of the Freight Train Riders of America, nicknamed "the Boxcar Killer". Attributed 9-14 murders, claims 24 himself.
Caleb Fairley 1996 2 life sentences  United States Clothing store clerk who abducted a mother and her child when they were shopping there, and murdered both after raping the woman.
William Leonard Pickard 1999 2 life sentences  United States Largest manufacturer of LSD in the US at the time of his arrest.
Amy Hebert 2009 2 life sentences  United States Murdered her children, Camille and Braxton, to punish her ex-husband.[27]
V. V. Hamsa 2010 2 life sentences  India Found guilty of the abduction and murder of progressive Islamic cleric Chekannur Maulavi in Edappal, Kerala in 1993. Nine other people were also charged in this case but found innocent.

Prisoners sentenced to one life sentence plus additional time
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description
Ariel Castro 2013 Life without parole plus 1,000 years  United States Serial 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.
Ramzi Yousef 1998 Life without parole plus 240 years  United States Perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 and co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot.
Dennis Rader 2005 Life without parole for 175 years  United States Serial killer known as BTK (for "Bound, Torture, Kill").
Carlos Lehder 1987 Life plus 135 years  United States 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.
Sante Kimes 1998 Life plus 125 years without parole  United States Con artist convicted of murdering two people. Died in prison in 2014.
Naveed Afzal Haq 2009 Life plus 120 years  United States Perpetrator of the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting.
Hamdi Quran 2007 Life plus 100 years  Israel PFLP member convicted for the murder of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi.
Ralph "Bucky" Phillips 2006 Life without parole plus 80 years  United States Fugitive from Erie County jail who shot three New York State Troopers, killing one.
Allan Baker 1973 Life plus 55 years  Australia Burglars 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 Travers 1987 Life plus 65 years  Australia Murderers 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 Murdoch 1987 Life plus 50 years
Michael Murphy 1987 Life plus 75 years
Gary Murphy 1987 Life plus 50 years
Les Murphy 1987 Life plus 66 years
Attina Marie Cannaday 1984 Life plus 50 years  United States Originally 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[28] Life plus 45 years  United States Founder 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 2006 Life plus 44 years  Australia Convicted of murdering two women though their bodies were never found. Died in prison in 2016.
Bernadette McNeilly 1993 Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 years  United Kingdom Murderers of Suzanne Capper.
Jean Powell Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 years
Glyn Powell Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 years
Somchai Wisetsingh 2004 Life plus 33 years and 4 months  Thailand Police officer convicted of murdering two British backpackers after an argument.
Sundiata Acoli 1974 Life plus 30 years  United States Member 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 2019 Life plus 30 years  United States Drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel
Arthur Hosein 1970 Life plus 25 years  United Kingdom Kidnapper and presumed murderer of Muriel McKay.
Antonis Daglis 1997 Life plus 25 years  Greece Serial killer known as "the Athens Ripper." Killed himself seven months after his conviction.
John Leonard Orr 1998 Life plus 20 years without parole  United States Serial arsonist who worked as a fire captain in Glendale, California. Four people died in fires that he caused.
Garrett Brock Trapnell 1972 Life plus 20 years  United States Con man, bank robber and aircraft hijacker skilled at faking insanity to get off previous charges. Died in prison in 1993.
Audrey Marie Hilley 1983 Life plus 20 years  United States Con 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.
Wayne DuMond 1985 Life plus 20 years  United States Ex-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 2003 Life plus 20 years  United States Murdered two tourists from Virginia in Maryland. Her husband and accomplice was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
Nizamodeen Hosein 1970 Life plus 15 years  United Kingdom Kidnapper and presumed murderer of Muriel McKay.
El Sayyid Nosair 1994 Life plus 15 years  United States Convicted for his part in the New York City landmark bomb plot. Also tried for the assassination of Meir Kahane but acquitted.
Omar Abdel-Rahman 1996 Life plus 15 years  United States Known 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 in prison in 2017.
Yigal Amir 1996 Life plus 14 years  Israel Murderer of Yitzhak Rabin.
James Charles Kopp 2007 Life plus 10 years  United States Member of The Lambs of Christ who sniped a physician providing abortions, Barnett Slepian.
Tom Menheniott 1977 Life plus 5 years  United Kingdom Physically 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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