Definition of "life imprisonment" []

• A sentence of imprisonment until death (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I say, and I repeat, that you are the real cause of Albert Retailleau's death, and that if the laws created by men were perfect, life imprisonment would not be a harsh-enough punishment for you."
• "Chief of the general Wehr-macht office throughout World War II; responsible for Russian prisoners of war; chief of the National Socialist Guidance Staff (NSFO) from 1943 (the Oberpolitik); sentenced to life imprisonment 28th October, 1948; still in Landsberg."
• "Cleary was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor, the sentence to be served in Goulburn Gaol, this institution being one designed for violently disposed prisoners."