Committing serious crimes and being convicted of them will usually result in life imprisonment. As the name suggests, that meant the offenders will stay in prison for the rest of their lives until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term.
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But there are times when judges deem the crimes to be deserving of even greater punishment, excluding the death sentence. So, the convicts are given prison sentences longer than life imprisonment.
The longest non-life prison sentence recorded was given to Chamoy Thipyaso who had been sentenced to 141,078 years in jail in 1989. Thipyaso had been the mastermind of a pyramid scheme on a national scale in Thailand, defrauding more than 16,000 Thai people including some members of the military and the Royal family. At the time, Thai law allowed only a maximum of 20 years for fraud. She ended up being released in 1993.
In the US, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people during the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which got him the death sentence. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, who helped him construct the bomb, received 161 life sentences plus 9,300 years without parole.
Another man, Charles Scott Robinson, also from Oklahoma, was found guilty on six charges of child sexual abuse, and received a 30,000-year sentence in 1994.
Check out the rest of the longest prison sentences in the world on NDTV.
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Source: neatorama