life sentence
Noun

life sentence (plural life sentences)

  1. (legal) A sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life.
Translations
  • French: condamnation à perpétuité, emprisonnement à perpétuité
  • German: lebenslange Haftstrafe, lebenslänglich
  • Italian: ergastolo
  • Portuguese: prisão perpétua
  • Russian: пожи́зненное заключе́ние
  • Spanish: cadena perpetua, cadena perpetual, presidio perpetuo, prisión perpetua



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