Sentence examples for lwop in from inspiring English sources

Indeed, thousands of drug offenders served sentences of LWOP in federal prison despite their not having had histories of violence or weapons.

It also quotes the Attorney General of Rhode Island as saying the HRW folks got it wrong when they listed 2 LWOP juveniles in his state.

The thousands of nonviolent crimes that have resulted in LWOP sentences include possession of a crack pipe, a smudge of heroin in a bottle cap, and "a trace amount of cocaine in clothes pockets that was so minute it was invisible to the naked eye and detected only in lab tests," according to the report.

The Oklahoma Legislature's original intent in enacting LWOP was to create an alternative between life imprisonment and the death sentence in capital cases.

Further, in states that offered punishment options of death or LWOP, there wasn't a decline in death penalty cases, just a massive increase in the number of prisoners serving sentence of LWOP.

LWOP sentences for drug crimes have not resulted in decreased drug trafficking.

Since 2005, jurors in capital cases in Texas have been given the option of imposing a sentence of life without the possibility of parole (known as LWOP), which appears to be viewed by many jurors as a satisfactory alternative.

The watch commander had this idea that, since he was a level-four LWOP and validated gang member with such an unusually high I.Q., he was definitely a shot caller.

"Come in, come in!

"You in?

However, unlike death penalty cases where in order to impose such a sentence the jury is required to find aggravating circumstances, a jury recommending LWOP needs no reason whatsoever.