Litigation
Aug. 18, 2015
Federal life sentences lowest in ten years
A recent government report says that federal courts imposed fewer life sentences this year than at any time since 2004. But about the same number received de facto life sentences, sentences long enough to functionally be the same thing.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Federal judges imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without parole on 153 offenders
in 2013, the lowest annual total of the previous decade, according to a report from
the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Additionally, 168 offenders received "de facto" life sentences - sentences so long
that they are funct...
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