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Name	Sentence start	Life sentence(s)	Life sentence details	Additional time	Country	Prison name	Prison city or county	Prison state	Description

Name	Sentence start	Life sentence(s)	Life sentence details	Additional time	Country	Prison name	Prison city or county	Prison state	Description
Terry Nichols	1995	161		9,300 years without parole	United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	Convicted of 161 counts of first degree murder, first degree arson, and conspiracy by the state court of Oklahoma for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995; also sentenced in federal court for terrorism and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter. Record for most consecutive life sentences ever given to a single individual.
Michael J. Devlin	2007	74	Minimum 2,020 years		United States	Western Missouri Correctional Center	Cameron	Missouri	Convicted of multiple counts of kidnapping children in 2002 and 2007, armed criminal action, forcible sodomy, child pornography, transporting minors across state lines to engage in sexual activity, attempted murder, and attempted forcible sodomy.
Abdullah Barghouti	2004	67		5,200 years without parole	Palestine				Commander of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades and one of its chief bomb makers. Sentenced for the death of 66 Israelis, he is held in solitary confinement and denied visits. Also the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed outside U.S.
Brenton Tarrant	2020	52		480 years without parole	New Zealand				Pleaded guilty to the murder of 51 worshippers and seriously injuring 40 others in the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019. Sentenced to life imprisonment for each murder and preparing for a terrorist act, and an additional 480 years for wounding 40 people.
Gary Ridgway	2003	49	48 of them without parole	480 years	United States	Washington State Penitentiary	Walla Walla	Washington	Serial killer known as the "Green River Killer", who confessed to have murdered 71 prostitutes between 1982 and 1998. Most prolific serial killer in US history.
Loi Khac Nguyen	1991	49	Consecutive without parole		United States				Surviving perpetrator of the 1991 Good Guys siege. Convicted of three murders, 11 attempted murders and 35 counts of kidnapping.
Martin Bryant	1996	35		1,035 years without parole	Australia				Mass murderer who pleaded guilty to murdering 35 people and injuring 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia on April 28, 1996. Sentenced to the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for each murder, and an additional 1,035 years for wounding 23 people, shooting at 14 other people with the intention to kill, four counts of theft of a motor vehicle, three counts of arson and one of kidnapping.
Billy Joe Godfrey	2015	35	Minimum 1,050 years		United States				Charged with 35 counts of statutory sodomy in the 1st degree, garnering 35 consecutive life sentences, which is the equivalent of 1,050 years in prison. Godfrey plead guilty to sexually abusing two children between 1995 and 1999. The children were between the ages of eight and 13 at the time of the assaults.
Nikolas Cruz	2022	34	17 without parole	a minimum of 380 years	United States				Perpetrator of the Parkland massacre who plead guilty to killing 17 people and injuring 17 others.
Warren Troy Knoop	2017	32		170 years	South Africa				Found guilty of 870 charges of child rape, exploitation, sexual assault and child pornography.
Bobby Joe Long	1985	28		104 years	United States	Florida State Prison	Raiford	Florida	Serial killer who raped more than 50 women and killed at least 10. The sentence was reduced on appeal from 33 life sentences (26 without parole and 7 with no parole for 25 years). Also sentenced to one death penalty. Executed in 2019.
Donald Harvey	1987	28			United States	Toledo Correctional Institution	Toledo	Ohio	Hospital orderly who claimed to have murdered 87 people in Toledo, Ohio. Murdered in prison in 2017.
Cedric Maake	2000	27		1,159 years and 3 months	South Africa				Serial killer known as the Wemmer Pam Murderer and the Hammer Killer. Convicted of 27 murders, 26 attempted murders, 15 rapes and 46 accounts of aggravated robbery, among other charges.
Salvatore "Totò" Riina	1993	26			Italy				Reputed "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, nicknamed "The Beast". Believed to have ordered over 150 murders in Italy. Served his sentence in solitary confinement until his death in prison in 2017, the day after his 87th birthday.
Andrew Aston	2002	26			United Kingdom				Cocaine addict who attacked and robbed 26 elderly and disabled people in their homes over the course of three months. Two victims died.
Juan Corona	1973	25	Without parole		United States	California State Prison	Corcoran	California	A Mexican-born labor contractor, Corona murdered 25 vagrants and occasional farm workers and buried them in orchards of California between 1970 and 1971. Died of natural causes in 2019.
Richard Huckle	2015	22	Minimum 25 years		United Kingdom				Sexually abused 23 children in Malaysia over a ten-year period. Murdered in prison in 2019.
Patrick Kearney	1977	21			United States	Mule Creek State Prison	Ione	California	One of three different serial killers with the nickname "The Freeway Killer" that targeted male hitchhikers in California during the 1970s, the others being William Bonin and Randy Steven Kraft.
Chester Stiles	2009	21	Minimum 140 years		United States	Ely State Prison	White Pine County	Nevada	Former Siegfried & Roy trainer who made a video of himself raping and sexually abusing a two-year-old girl in 2003. Sentenced to 21 life sentences on 10 counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14, 11 counts of sexual assault with a minor under 14, and one count of attempted sexual assault with a minor under 14. 19 charges were tied directly to what was seen in the tape, and three charges pertained to the assault of the 6-year-old girl, who wasn't recorded.
Bernardo Provenzano	2006	20		49 years, 1 month and solitary confinement for 33 years and six months	Italy				Member of the Sicilian Mafia, at first Salvatore Riina's right-hand man, then, after Riina's arrest, " boss of bosses". Was 40 years in hiding until his arrest in 2006. Died in 2016 while imprisoned.
Peter Sutcliffe	1981	20	Without parole for 30 years		United Kingdom				Serial killer known as "the Yorkshire Ripper." Died in prison in 2020.
Charles Cullen	2006	19	Without parole for 497 years		United States	New Jersey State Prison	Trenton	New Jersey	Nurse who confessed to have killed 40 patients in the span of 16 years.
Benjamin Geen	2006	17	Without parole for 30 years		United Kingdom				Male nurse who injected 17 patients with muscle relaxants. Seven underwent respiratory arrests as a result and two died.
Abd al-Hadi Rafa Ghanim	1989	16			Israel				Perpetrator of the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack.
David Randitsheni	2009	16		220 years	South Africa				Serial killer who abducted, raped and murdered children. Hanged himself three weeks after conviction.
Jeffrey Dahmer	1992	16			United States	Columbia Correctional Institution	Portage	Wisconsin	Serial killer known as "the Milwaukee Cannibal", also killed one victim in Ohio in 1978. Murdered in prison in 1994.
Harold Shipman	2000	15		4 years	United Kingdom				Medical doctor believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in the world, with more than 218 victims. Killed himself in prison.
Robert Hanssen	2001	15	Without parole		United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for 22 years.
Leoluca Bagarella	1995	13		106 years, 10 months and solitary confinement for 6 years	Italy				Member of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Riina's brother-in-law.
Donato Bilancia	2000	13	Without parole		Italy				Serial killer active in the Italian Riviera.
Michael Wheatley	2002	13		65 years without parole for 8 years	United Kingdom				Violent robber known as "the Skull-Cracker." Escaped briefly from prison in 2014, but was recaptured.
Beverley Allitt	1993	13			United Kingdom				Nurse who fatally poisoned four children at a Lincolnshire hospital and attempted to kill nine others.
Timothy Krajcir	2008	13			United States	Pontiac Correctional Center	Pontiac	Illinois	Serial killer who murdered nine women in Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Sentence resulting from a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
James Eagan Holmes	2015	12		3,318 years without parole	United States	USP Allenwood	Union County	Pennsylvania	Mass murderer guilty of perpetrating the 2012 Aurora shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. He killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. He was given 12 life sentences (one for each murder), and an additional 3,318 years in prison for numerous counts of attempted murder, one count of possessing an illegal explosive device, and one sentence enhancement of a crime of violence.
Roger Kingsley Dean	2011	11		12 years without parole	Australia				Set fire to Quakers Hill Nursing Home, where he worked as a nurse, to cover up his theft of painkillers. 11 patients died and eight others were injured in the blaze.
Joe O'Connell	1977	12	Without parole (each)		United Kingdom				Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Edward Butler	1977	12	Without parole (each)		United Kingdom				Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Harry Duggan	1977	12	Without parole (each)		United Kingdom				Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Hugh Doherty	1977	11	Without parole		United Kingdom				Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Charles Juan Proctor	2010	11		433 years	United States				Serial slasher known as "The Box Cutter". He slashed several women in California. He was convicted of five counts of robbery; three counts each of kidnap for robbery, false imprisonment, and burglary; two counts each of attempted murder and mayhem; and one count each of attempted robbery, attempted kidnap for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and assault.
Benjamin Atkins	1992	11			United States	Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center	Jackson	Michigan	Serial Killer known as the Woodward Corridor Killer, who raped and strangled 11 prostitutes in Detroit because of his hate for prostitution. As a child, he was himself raped, and often witnessed his mother while she worked as a prostitute. Died of AIDS-related complications in 1997.
John Justin Bunting	2003	11	Without parole		Australia				Ringleader and main perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
James Ruppert	1975	11			United States	Allen Correctional Institution	Lima	Ohio	Perpetrator of the " Easter Sunday Massacre", during which he murdered 11 people in his mother's home of Hamilton, Ohio. His sentence was reduced to two life sentences after an appeal in 1982.
George Harold Davis	2004	11			United States	Montana State Prison	Powell County	Montana	Opened fire on a group of people outside a bar in downtown Ennis, Montana, then engaged police officers in a high-speed chase and shootout. One man was killed and six others were injured outside the bar. He was given the longest prison sentence in Montana state history.
Juan Manuel Álvarez	2008	11			United States	Kern Valley State Prison	Delano	California	Drenched his Jeep Cherokee in gasoline before parking it on the tracks on the border of Atwater and Glendale. He bailed out on his suicide attempt but left the Jeep on the tracks. The ensuing derailment sent rail cars into nearby Union Pacific train, killing 11 and injuring 177.
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera	1991	10		45 years without parole	United States	United States Penitentiary, Lee	Lee County	Virginia	Chief assassin of the Medellin Cartel, responsible of the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 among others.
Robert Joe Wagner	2003	10	Without parole		Australia				Perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
Robert Bates	1979	10			United Kingdom				Member of the Shankill Butchers who tortured and murdered Catholics in Belfast (or people that the gang believed to be Catholic, but weren't).
Jean-Paul Akayesu	1998	9	Minimum 25 years		Rwanda				Found guilty of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Serves his sentence in a Mali prison.
Sean Kelly	1995	9			United Kingdom				Member of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade who perpetrated the Shankill Road bombing in 1993. The bomb - intended for Johnny Adair and senior members of the Ulster Defence Association - exploded earlier, killing fellow IRA member Thomas Begley and nine unrelated people, and injuring Kelly himself, who lost an eye and the use of his left arm. Released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Dylann Roof	2017	9	Without parole	95 years	United States	USP Terre Haute	Terre Haute	Indiana	Dylann Roof was the perpetrator of the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Currently at USP Terre Haute on death row awaiting execution.
Sibusiso Duma	2009	8		139 years	South Africa				Taxi driver and serial killer who used his vehicle to procure new victims and sometimes kill them.
Ted Kaczynski	1998	8		30 years without parole	United States	FMC Butner	Durham County	North Carolina	Anarchistic terrorist who killed three and injured 23 with parcel bombs.
Patrick Magee	1986	8	Without parole for 35 years		United Kingdom				IRA member and perpetrator of the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing, which unsuccessfully tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement.
Edmund Kemper	1973	8			United States	California Medical Facility	Vacaville	California	Serial killer nicknamed "The Co-Ed Butcher."
Nairi Hunanyan	1999	8			Armenia				Perpetrators of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting in which eight officials were killed, including sitting Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Karen Demirchyan , and Minister of Urgent Affairs Leonard Petrosyan.
Karen Hunanyan	1999	8			Armenia				Perpetrators of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting in which eight officials were killed, including sitting Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Karen Demirchyan , and Minister of Urgent Affairs Leonard Petrosyan.
Vram Galstyan	1999	8			Armenia				Perpetrators of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting in which eight officials were killed, including sitting Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Karen Demirchyan , and Minister of Urgent Affairs Leonard Petrosyan.
Derenik Ejanyan	1999	8			Armenia				Perpetrators of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting in which eight officials were killed, including sitting Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Karen Demirchyan , and Minister of Urgent Affairs Leonard Petrosyan.
Eduard Grigoryan	1999	8			Armenia				Perpetrators of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting in which eight officials were killed, including sitting Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly Speaker Karen Demirchyan , and Minister of Urgent Affairs Leonard Petrosyan.
Scott Evans Dekraai	2011	8			United States				Perpetrator of 2011 Seal Beach shooting.
Ronald Dominique	2008	8			United States				Serial killer who raped and murdered over 23 men in Louisiana.
Jeffrey Kollie	1996	7		265 years	United States				Convicted of armed robbery. The sentence was the longest in the US state of Georgia. They rejected an offer to plead guilty for a 40-year prison sentence.
Ryan Brandt	1996	7		265 years	United States				Convicted of armed robbery. The sentence was the longest in the US state of Georgia. They rejected an offer to plead guilty for a 40-year prison sentence.
Torrens Knight	1993	8			United Kingdom				Ulster Defence Association member involved in the Greysteel massacre and the Castlerock killings. Released under the Good Friday Agreement, but his license was suspended after he was convicted of assaulting two women in 2009, and was returned to jail.
Ivan Milat	1996	7		18 years without parole	Australia				Perpetrator of the Backpacker murders.
Walter E. Ellis	2011	7	Without parole		United States	South Dakota State Penitentiary	Sioux Falls	South Dakota	Serial killer known as the "Milwaukee North Side Strangler." Died in prison in 2013.
Samuel Sidyno	2000	7	Without parole for 40 years		South Africa				Serial killer who raped and murdered two women and five boys near Pretoria Zoo between 1998 and 1999.
Antoni Imiela	2004	7	Without parole for 8 years		United Kingdom				Serial rapist active over a large area of southern England.
Stewart Wilken	1998	7			South Africa				Serial killer and necrophiliac known as the "Boetie Boer ". Murdered and sodomized ten women and young boys, including his ex-wife's son. Also killed his daughter.
Nikos Metaxas	2018	7			Greece				Greek Cypriot former army officer who confessed to the Mitsero murders.
Ami Popper	1991	7			Israel				Dishonorably discharged IDF soldier who murdered seven Palestinian workers at a bus stop in Rishon Lezion in 1990. His sentence was later reduced to 40 years and he was granted temporary leaves.
Darrell E. Brooks	2022	6		1,067 years without the possibility of parole	United States	Dodge Correctional Institution	Waupun	Wisconsin	Darrell E. Brooks drove an SUV through the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha murdering six people and injuring 62 others.
Chai Vang	2004	6		70 years without parole	United States	Anamosa State Penitentiary	Fort Madison	Iowa	California National Guard veteran who killed six hunters and wounded another two during a hunting trip to northern Wisconsin.
Malcolm George Baker	1992	6		25 years without parole	Australia				Perpetrator of the Central Coast massacre.
John Wayne Glover	1990	6	Without parole		Australia				Serial killer of elderly women in Sydney. Hanged himself in prison in 2005.
Lee Boyd Malvo	2006	6	Without parole		United States	Red Onion State Prison	Wise County	Virginia	Accomplice of John Allen Muhammad in the Beltway Sniper killings. Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.
Efren Saldivar	2002	6	Without parole		United States	Salinas Valley State Prison	Soledad	California	Serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist.
Zacarias Moussaoui	2006	6	Without parole		United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	French Moroccan who pleaded guilty to conspiring to take part in the 9/11 terrorist attacks
Terry Blair	2008	6	Without parole		United States	Potosi Correctional Center	Mineral Point	Missouri	Serial killer and rapist active in Kansas City, Missouri.
James William Miller	1980	6	With non-parole period of 35 years		Australia				Accomplice of Christopher Worrell in the Truro murders. Worrell died in a car accident before capture, and Miller died in prison of cancer in 2008.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.	1975	6	Without parole for 25 years		United States	Sullivan Correctional Facility	Fallsburg	New York	Perpetrator of the Amityville family massacre.
Elmer Wayne Henley	1974	6			United States	Mark Stiles Unit	Beaumont	Texas	Teenage accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll in the Houston Mass Murders, whom he also killed in self-defence.
David Berkowitz	1978	6			United States	Shawangunk Correctional Facility	Wallkill	New York	Serial killer of couples known as "Son of Sam" and "the .44 Caliber Killer."
John Childs	1979	6			United Kingdom				Contract killer.
Bruce Johnston	1981	6			United States	Graterford Prison	Graterford	Pennsylvania	Philadelphia gang leader convicted of six murders and one attempt.
Daniel Gonzalez	2004	6			United Kingdom				Mentally ill spree killer. Committed suicide in prison.
Paul Steven Haigh	1991	6			Australia				Responsible for the murder of 7 people.
Robert Bever	2016	6	One with parole, and the rest without parole		United States	Joseph Harp Correctional Center	Lexington	Oklahoma	Perpetrator of the Broken Arrow killings. He was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He was given life without parole for the murder and one with parole for the assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
Donald Neilson	1976	5		61 years	United Kingdom				Robber, kidnapper and murderer nicknamed "the Black Panther" for the balaclava that he wore during his attacks. Died in prison in 2011.
Samir Kuntar	1979	5		47 years	Israel				Lebanese members of a PLF commando who attempted to abduct an Israeli citizen, Danny Haran, in the 1979 Nahariya attack. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured after sustaining a shootout with Israeli police and soldiers, and subsequently convicted of the murders of two Israeli policemen, Haran and Haran's two daughters, Einat and Yael Haran, who were 4 and 2 years old, respectively. Yael Haran was accidentally suffocated by her mother while hiding in a crawlspace, and Einat Haran died in the shootout with her father. Kuntar and al-Abras always denied to have killed Haran and his daughter and claimed that it was the Israeli forces who had actually killed them when they fired on the abductors as they tried to leave. al-Abras was released in the 1985 Jibril agreement, and Kuntar in the 2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap. Kuntar was killed in 2015 by an Israeli drone strike in Syria.
Ahmad al-Abras	1979	5		47 years	Israel				Lebanese members of a PLF commando who attempted to abduct an Israeli citizen, Danny Haran, in the 1979 Nahariya attack. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured after sustaining a shootout with Israeli police and soldiers, and subsequently convicted of the murders of two Israeli policemen, Haran and Haran's two daughters, Einat and Yael Haran, who were 4 and 2 years old, respectively. Yael Haran was accidentally suffocated by her mother while hiding in a crawlspace, and Einat Haran died in the shootout with her father. Kuntar and al-Abras always denied to have killed Haran and his daughter and claimed that it was the Israeli forces who had actually killed them when they fired on the abductors as they tried to leave. al-Abras was released in the 1985 Jibril agreement, and Kuntar in the 2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap. Kuntar was killed in 2015 by an Israeli drone strike in Syria.
Marwan Barghouti	2004	5		40 years	Israel				Leader of the Second Intifada and alleged founder of Tanzim.
Michael Bever	2018	5		28 years	United States	Lexington Correctional Center	Lexington	Oklahoma	Michael Bever was involved in his brother's crimes.
Leonard Fraser	1999	5		25 years without parole	Australia				Serial killer known as "the Rockhampton Rapist." Died in prison in 2007.
Robert Mark Steele	1993	5		25 years without parole	Australia				Spree killer captured after the 1993 Cangai siege. Hanged himself in prison in 1994.
Christopher Watts	2018	5	Without parole	84 years	United States	Dodge Correctional Institution	Waupun	Wisconsin	Killed his wife and children, including his unborn son in August 2018. Pleaded guilty on November 6, 2018, and was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole. In addition to the life terms, Watts was sentenced to 48 years for unlawful termination of a pregnancy and 36 years in prison for three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.
John List	1990	5	Without parole		United States	St. Francis Medical Center	Trenton	New Jersey	Killed his wife, mother and childre in 1971 and became one of the most notorious fugitives in the US until his arrest in Virginia in 1989, after he was featured in America's Most Wanted. Died in prison in 2008.
Lindsay Robert Rose	1998	5	Without parole		Australia				Serial killer and contract killer.
Faye Copeland	1999	5	Without parole		United States	Potosi Correctional Center	Potosi	Missouri	Originally sentenced to death along with her husband Ray for the murder of five itinerant workers in their farm, between 1986 and 1989. With ages of 76 and 69 at the time of sentencing, the couple were the oldest prisoners in death rowin the United States. After Ray died from natural causes while in death row in 1993, there was growing pressure to pardon or reduce Faye's sentence, as some argued that she had been abused and pressured into helping with the murders by her husband. The death sentence was commuted in 1999, and in 2002 Governor Bob Holden authorized her release on medical grounds. She died in a nursing home in 2003 from natural causes.
Douglas Crabbe	1983	5	Without parole for 30 years		Australia				Truck driver who deliberately drove his vehicle into a crowded bar in Uluru, killing five.
William MacDonald	1963	5			Australia				Serial killer known as "the Sydney Mutilator." Died in prison in 2015.
Colin Ireland	1993	5			United Kingdom				Serial killer of homosexual men nicknamed "the Gay Slayer." Died in prison in 2012.
John Stanfa	1995	5			United States	Federal Medical Center	Ayer	Massachusetts	Boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family between 1991 and 1995.
Kirby Logan Archer	2008	5			United States	USP Lewisburg	Lewisburg	Pennsylvania	Pled guilty to hijacking a fishing vessel and murdering its crew. Was found adrift in said vessel in 2007.
Gwendolyn Graham	1989	5			United States	Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee	Tallahassee	Florida	Serial killer who murdered five elderly women in a retirement home of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she worked as an unlicensed nurse's aide. Her accomplice Cathy Wood, also a worker with the same rank, was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Richard Reid	2002	4		110 years without parole	United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	British Muslim convert known as "the Shoe Bomber" who conspired to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with concealed plastic explosives.
Nicolai Bonner	2005	4		34 years	Israel				Homeless serial killer, born in Moldova, who killed four other homeless people, all also originally from the former Soviet Union and who had been drinking partners of Bonner.
Samuel Leonard Boyd	1985	4		25 years without parole	Australia				Stabbed a woman in 1982, and on April 22, 1983, bashed his flatmate to death with a hammer before driving to a school, taking three teachers hostage and forcing them to abuse each other before killing two of them. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without parole, redetermined in 1995 under new laws.
Kristen Gilbert	2001	4	Without parole	20 years	United States	FMC Carswell	Fort Worth	Texas	Serial killer nurse who injected patients at the Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center with epinephrine, inducing heart attacks.
Michael Lupo	1987	4		14 years	United Kingdom				Serial killer known as "The Wolf Man", who murdered homosexual men in London. Died from AIDS-related complications in 1995.
Jeremy Strohmeyer	1998	4	Without parole		United States	High Desert State Prison	Clark County	Nevada	Molested and killed an unsupervised seven-year-old girl in a Nevada casino's restroom when he was eighteen. Took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
Mark Hobson	2005	4			United Kingdom				Spree killer who murdered his girlfriend, her twin sister and an elderly couple during an eight-day manhunt. Documents found at his home revealed that the first two killings were premeditated and that he intended to murder more of his girlfriend's relatives.
Bandali Debs	2011	4		27 years without parole	Australia				Serial armed robber, perpetrator of the Silk-Miller police murders; also killed two sex workers.
James Spyridon Vlassakis	2003	4	Without parole for 26 years		Australia				Perpetrator of the Snowtown murders.
David Birnie	1996	4	Without parole for 20 years		Australia				Perpetrators of the Moorhouse murders. David Birnie hanged himself in prison in 2005, the day before his trial for the rape of another inmate. Catherine Birnie was declared "never to be released" in 2009, but this decision might be subject to change in 2019.
Catherine Birnie	1996	4	Without parole for 20 years		Australia				Perpetrators of the Moorhouse murders. David Birnie hanged himself in prison in 2005, the day before his trial for the rape of another inmate. Catherine Birnie was declared "never to be released" in 2009, but this decision might be subject to change in 2019.
Eric Rudolph	2005	4	Two of them without parole		United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	Perpetrator of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
Denis Goldberg	1964	4			South Africa				Technical advisor to uMkhonto we Sizwe, convicted at the Rivonia Trial. Released in 1985.
David Johnston	1981	4			United States				Brothers of Bruce Johnston and members of his gang.
Norman Johnston	1981	4			United States				Brothers of Bruce Johnston and members of his gang.
Barry Mills	2006	4			United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	Leader of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Waldo Grant	1978	4			United States				Serial killer active in New York.
Wayne Boden	1971	4			Canada				Serial killer and rapist known as "The Vampire Rapist and Strangler Bill".
Dudley Wayne Kyzer	1981	3		10,000 years	United States				Convicted of killing his estranged wife, Diane Kyzer, his mother-in-law, Eunice Barringer, and college student Rick Pyron who just happened to be at the Barringer home on Halloween in 1976. Denied parole 10 times, the most recent being in 2016.
Sylvia Seegrist	1986	3		70 years	United States	State Correctional Institution	Muncy	Pennsylvania	Paranoid schizophrenic who opened fire in a shopping mall outside Philadelphia, killing three and injuring seven before being disarmed by another shopper.
Michael Kanaan	2001	3		50 years and 4 months	Australia				Serial killer.
John Cribb	1978	3		45 years	Australia				While under parole for a previous sentence for armed robbery, Cribb broke into a family home of Swansea, New South Wales, and abducted a woman and her two children. Cribb phoned the woman's husband to tell him that he was the woman's long-time lover and that they had run away together. Afterward, Cribb raped the woman and fatally stabbed all captives with a knife, before being arrested after a ten-hour siege. While in awaiting trial, he escaped with another inmate and went on a robbery and raping spree until they were re-captured. Cribb's sentence was increased by thirty years because of crimes committed during this escape.
Arthur Walker	1985	3		40 years	United States	Federal Correctional Institution, Butner Low	Butner	North Carolina	Brother of US Navy officer John Anthony Walker, convicted of spying for the Soviet Union along with him. Both died in prison in 2014.
Will Hayden	2017	3		40 years	United States	Louisiana State Penitentiary	West Feliciana	Louisiana	Two counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape, of two girls over the course of two decades, one of which was his daughter.
Peter Odighizuwa	2005	3		28 years without parole	United States	Red Onion State Prison	Wise County	Virginia	Perpetrator of the Appalachian School of Law shooting.
Natasha Wallen Cornett	1998	3		25 years without parole	United States	Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center	Nashville	Tennessee	Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Edward Dean Mullins	1998	3		25 years without parole	United States				Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Joseph Lance Risner	1998	3		25 years without parole	United States				Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Crystal R. Sturgill	1998	3		25 years without parole	United States				Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Jason Blake Bryant	1998	3		25 years without parole	United States				Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Karen R. Howell	1998	3		25 years without parole	United States				Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders.
Ashley Coulston	1992	3		7 years without parole	Australia				Triple murderer and abductor. Also a suspect in the Balaclava Killings of 1979–1980.
Chester William Fewins	2020	5		59 years	United States				3 counts of 1st degree child molestation, attempted 1st degree statutory rape, abuse or neglect of a child under 14, 1st degree statutory rape person under 14, 1st degree statutory sodomy person under 14, tampering with a victim or attempt to tamper with a victim.
Patrick Nogueira	2018	3		25 years	Spain				Brazilian 19-year-old who murdered his aunt, uncle and two infant cousins in Pioz, Castilla–La Mancha. The three life sentences were for the murders of the children due to their age, and the premeditation of the uncle's murder hours after the others.
Martin Leach	1984	3	Without parole		Australia				Stabbed two teenage girls in Berry Springs, Northern Territory in a sexually motivated attack.
Dana Ewell	1992	3	Without parole		United States	Corcoran State Prison	Corcoran	California	Arranged the killings of his father, mother and sister with the intention to inherit the family fortune.
Michael Swango	2000	3	Without parole		United States	ADX Florence	Florence	Colorado	Physician who admitted to causing four deaths and suspected of sixty poisonings of patients.
Richard Timmons	2004	3	Without parole		United States	Auburn Correctional Facility.	Auburn	New York	Fatally stabbed his stepson and decapitated his wife and son with an ax in Queens, New York.
Ramzi Aouad	2006	3	Without parole		Australia				Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial.
Naseam El-Zeyat	2006	3	Without parole		Australia				Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial.
Alec Devon Kreider	2008	3	Without parole		United States	SCI Camp Hill	Cumberland County	Pennsylvania	16-year-old student who murdered a classmate and his classmate's parents in their family home. Committed suicide in prison in 2017.
Scott Williams	2008	3	Without parole		United States	Alexander Correctional Institution	Taylorsville	North Carolina	Serial killer active in North Carolina.
Peter Dupas	2010	3	Without parole		Australia				Convicted of murder and primarily for being a serious habitual offender.
Aaron Schaffhausen	2013	3	Without parole		United States	Waupun Correctional Institution	Waupun	Wisconsin	Killed his three daughters to spite his ex-wife.
David Brom	1989	3	Without parole for 56 years		United States	Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater	Bayport	Minnesota	Killed his parents, brother and sister with an axe near Rochester, Minnesota.
Pierre Williams	2008	3	Without parole for 38 years		United Kingdom				Beat his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend's two children to death with a ball-peen hammer in the victims' own home. After the crimes, he made a paste with their blood and coconut oil, apparently inspired by Biblical sacrifices.
David Bieber	2004	3	Without parole for 37 years		United Kingdom				American fugitive who murdered a police constable and attempted to murder two others in Leeds.
Paul Denyer	1993	3	Without parole for 30 years		Australia				Serial killer known as "the Frankston Killer."
Gregory Brazel	2005	3	Without parole for 30 years		Australia				Confessed the murders of two prostitutes in 1990 and of a store employee during a robbery in 1982.
Phillip Austin	2001	3	Without parole for 20 years		United Kingdom				Killed his wife and two children.
Ian Brady	1966	3			United Kingdom				Serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Died in prison in 2017.
Javier Hernán Pino	2015	3			Argentina				Serial killer who befriended and deceived five people into trusting him, before shooting them in the head with a silenced pistol and robbing them of their belongings.
Jerry Brudos	1969	3			United States	Oregon State Penitentiary	Salem	Oregon	Serial killer known as "the Shoe Fetish Slayer" because of his compulsive attraction to women's shoes. Confessed to four murders but was convicted of only three because the first body was never found. Died of cancer in prison, in 2006.
Bernard Pesquet	1982	3			France				Serial killer known as "The Landru of Val-d'Oise".
Bernhard Prigan	1953	3			Germany				Serial killer known as "The Highway Killer" who killed at least three women between the end of the 1940s and the early 1950s. Unlike today, a total sentence of several life imprisonments was not yet formed.
W. A. Boyle	1974	3			United States	State Correctional Institution – Dallas	Luzerne County	Pennsylvania	President of the United Mine Workers of America, found guilty of hiring hitmen to kill a challenger for his position, Joseph Yablonski, in 1969; Yablonski's wife and daughter were also killed. Died in prison in 1985.
Jacques Plumain	2006	3			France				Serial killer known as "The Ghost of Kehl"
Jeffrey R. MacDonald	1979	3			United States	FCI Cumberland	Cumberland	Maryland	Medical doctor who murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
Reggie Gross	1989	3			United States	Terre Haute FCI	Terre Haute	Indiana	Heavyweight boxer incarcerated in South Carolina for murdering three people over a card game.
Keith Hunter Jesperson	1995	3			United States	Oregon State Penitentiary	Salem	Oregon	Serial killer known as "The Happy Face Killer."
Chevie Kehoe	1999	3			United States	USP Terre Haute	Terre Haute	Indiana	White supremacist convicted of the murder of a family of three. An accomplice was sentenced to death for the same crime.
Sef Gonzales	2004	3			Australia				Filipino immigrant who killed his father, mother and sister in North Ryde, New South Wales, and tried to disguise the murders as hate crimes.
Juan Covington	2005	3			United States	State Correctional Institution – Rockview	Benner Township	Pennsylvania	Serial killer active in Philadelphia.
James Ford Seale	2007	3			United States	USP Terre Haute	Terre Haute	Indiana	Ku Klux Klan member convicted for the 1964 kidnapping of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in Meadville, Mississippi, who were subsequently murdered. The sentence was overturned in 2008, arguing that the statute of limitations had run out, but was later reinstated in 2009. Died in prison in 2011.
Eiken Elam Saimon	2007	3			United States	Crossroads Correctional Center	Cameron	Missouri	Micronesian national who opened fire on a church congregation in Neosho, Missouri, two days after raping a fourteen-year-old girl.
Manfred Wittmann	1971	3			Germany				Serial killer known as "The Staffelstein Killer".
Eugene de Kock	1996	2		212 years	South Africa				South African Police SAP) colonel during apartheid era who was the leader of the secret Counterinsurgence Unit 10, also known as C10 or " Vlakplaas ", which abducted, tortured and murdered hundreds of anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s. Personally found guilty of 89 charges, including six murders. Was granted parole in 2015.
Leslie Alfred Camilleri	1997	2		183 years without parole	Australia				Victorian prison escapee and perpetrator of the Bega Schoolgirl Murders. Also convicted of the 1992 murder of Prue Bird.
Gabe Parker	2020	2	Without parole for 20 years	70 years	United States				Perpetrator of the Marshall County High School Shooting.
Ronald A. Baker	2012	2	Without parole	65 years	United States				Former Seminole, FL, police officer who repeatedly sexually assaulted his daughter from age 8 until she was 17. He also photographed his sexual assaults.
Alparslan Arslan	2006	2		60 years	Turkey				Murderer of Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and one of the bombers of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
John Albert Gardner	2010	2		49 years (one sentence of 24 years and another of 25 years to life)	United States	Mule Creek State Prison	Ione	California	Serial rapist and murderer of teenage girls in California.
Matthew James Harris	2000	2		40 years without parole	Australia				Serial killer. Tried to overdose twice before his arrest.
Ross Ulbricht	2015	2		40 years without parole	United States	United States Penitentiary in Tucson	Tucson	Arizona	Convicted of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise in United States federal court for operating the Silk Road darknet site.
Richard Lee McNair	1988	2		30 years	United States	USP Florence High	Florence	Colorado	Killed a man and attempted to kill another during a botched burglary.
Marlon Legere	2006	2	Without parole	26 years	United States	Clinton Correctional Facility	Dannemora	New York	Murderer of two NYPD detectives. Evaded the death penalty because it was abolished in the State of New York three months before his trial.
Anders Eklund	2008	2	Without parole	22 years	Sweden				Murderer and rapist convicted of killing a 31-year-old woman in 2000 and a 10-year-old girl in 2008.
Adnan Darwiche	2006	2		20 years without parole	Australia				Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial.
Gerry Kelly	1973	2		20 years	United Kingdom				PIRA member, convicted when he was nineteen years old, for his part in a plot to detonate four car bombs in London, two of which exploded successfully and injured 200 people. Became a politician for Sinn Féin following his release in 1989, and was one of the leading Republican negotiators of the Good Friday Agreement.
Myra Hindley	1966	2		7 years	United Kingdom				Perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with her boyfriend, Ian Brady. Died in prison in 2002.
Wayne Lo	1994	2	Without parole		United States	MCI-Norfolk	Norfolk	Massachusetts	Taiwanese-born perpetrator of the 1992 Simon's Rock College of Bard shooting, in which one student and one professor died, and four students were wounded.
Mark Valera	2000	2	Without parole		Australia				Double murderer.
Ward Weaver III	2004	2	Without parole		United States	Snake River Correctional Institution	Malheur County	Oregon	Double murderer and rapist.
Raymond Glen Bassett	1993	2	Without parole for 34 years		Australia				Spree killer captured after the 1993 Cangai Siege. Sentenced in New South Wales for three counts of accessory to murder, and in Queensland for two murders.
John Sharpe	2005	2	Without parole for 33 years		Australia				Murdered his wife and daughter. Held in solitary due to threats made to him by other prisoners.
Bilal Abdullah	2009	2	Without parole for 32 years		United Kingdom				Perpetrator of the 2007 London car bombs plot and the Glasgow Airport Attack.
Lloyd Crosbie	2003	2	Without parole for 30 years		Australia				Murdered his girlfriend and his girlfriend's mother so he could be together with his older brothers in prison.
Ben William McLean	2005	2	Without parole for 25 years		Australia				Killed two Thai prostitutes in Darwin and claimed that the Hells Angels had forced them to commit the crimes.
Phu Ngoc Trinh	2005	2	Without parole for 25 years		Australia				Killed two Thai prostitutes in Darwin and claimed that the Hells Angels had forced them to commit the crimes.
Gerald Mason	2003	2	Without parole for 7 years		United States				South Carolina gas station owner convicted in a notorious decades-long cold case, the murder of two police officers in El Segundo, California, in 1957. Died in prison in 2017.
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai	1908	2			India				Tamil shipping magnate and political leader imprisoned for sedition against the British colonial government. During his imprisonment he was subjected to harsh labor despite it not being part of his sentence. Though released in 1912, he found that his company had been liquidated the previous year.
Antonio Correa Cotto	1950	2			Puerto Rico				Incarcerated for two murders in Ponce, after which he led a prison riot and escape. After murdering an unknown number of prison guards and ten other people outside the prison over the course of two years, he was located in a farm by police and killed in a shootout.
Frank Wetzel	1957	2			United States				Convicted for the murders of two highway patrolmen when he was driving to Mississippi to break his brother out of death row. His brother was executed two months later. Wetzel died of Alzheimer's disease in 2012, still in prison.
J. J. Jameson	1961	2			United States				Originally arrested in 1960 for the killing of a store clerk, Jameson murdered a prison guard and escaped before trial, but was arrested again when he was robbing a grocery store. One of the life sentences was commuted in 1975 by the state governor, Michael Dukakis. He escaped again in 1985 and wasn't recaptured until 2005.

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