Example sentences of "[conj] sentence to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard evaded the FBI and managed to escape to Russia but Pelton was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 . |
| 2 | So when Calley was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment , he became a hero overnight . |
| 3 | At his trial for acting with Waddell in the murder of Mrs Chipperfield , Gentle was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 4 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 5 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | Pettersson had been arrested in December 1988 and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1989 [ see pp. 36742 ; 36823 ] , but had been acquitted on appeal in October [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 7 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 8 | Klaus Barbie , 77 , the Gestapo commander in Lyon in 1942-44 , who was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] , died in a prison hospital in Lyon on Sept. 25 ; he was cremated and his ashes were flown to Austria … |
| 9 | Among those killed during the coup was Roger Lafontant , the former leader of the Tontons Macoutes , the private army used by the Duvalier regimes to terrorize the population , and sentenced to life imprisonment in July for his part in the January 1991 abortive coup [ see pp. 37955 ; 38332 ] . |
| 10 | Gardiner was convicted and sentenced to life for the killing … and the armed robbery case was not proceeded with . |