List of longest prison sentences
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This is a list of longest prison sentences ever given to a single person, worldwide. Listed are instances where people have been sentenced to jail terms in excess of a human lifetime. Note that many national legislations worldwide do not allow for such sentences.
Since the sentence given is not necessarily equivalent to time served, see the list of longest prison sentences served for those who have spent the longest continuous time in prison.
Prisoners sentenced to more than one life imprisonment or to life imprisonment plus additional time
Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
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Terry Nichols | 1995 | 161 life sentences plus 9,300 years without parole | United States | 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. Due to such a large number of life sentences, adding no parole possibility, it can be also declared as the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed in the world. |
Michael J. Devlin | 2007 | 74 life sentences plus 2,020 years | United States | 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 life sentences plus 5,200 years without parole | Israel | 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 life sentences plus 480 years without parole | New Zealand | Pleaded gulity 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 life sentences (48 of them without parole) plus 480 years | United States | Serial killer known as the "Green River Killer", who confessed to having murdered 71 women between 1982 and 1998. |
Loi Khac Nguyen | 1991 | 49 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Surviving perpetrator of the 1991 Good Guys siege. Convicted of three murders, 11 attempted murders and 35 counts of kidnapping. |
Abdulkadir Masharipov | 2020 | 40 life sentences plus 1,368 years | Turkey | Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was handed the equivalent of 40 life sentences plus an additional 1,368 years for perpetrating the 2017 Istanbul nightclub shooting.[1] |
James Kevin Pope | 2008 | 40 life sentences plus 60 years | United States | Received 40 convictions of sexual assault for abusing three teenage girls.[2] |
Martin Bryant | 1996 | 35 life sentences plus 1,035 years without parole[3] | 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.[4] Sentenced to the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for each murder, and an additional 1,652 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. |
Chester Stiles | 2009 | 21 life sentences (with the possibility of parole in 140 years) | United States | Found guilty of 21 counts of rape against a 3-year-old girl. |
Dudley Wayne Kyzer | 1981 | 2 life sentences plus 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.[5] Received 10,000 years for the murder of his wife and 2 life sentences for the other two killings.[6] |
James Alex Fields Jr. | 2019 | 2 life sentences plus 419 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Charlottesville car attack.[7] |
Ariel Castro | 2013 | 1 life sentence without parole plus 1,000 years | United States | Pled guilty to 937 charges of kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder. Committed suicide one month into his sentence.[8][9] |
Prisoners not sentenced to life imprisonment
These sentences differ technically from sentences of life imprisonment in that the designated jail times have specific lengths, although in practical terms they may serve the same purpose.
Prisoners sentenced to 1,000 years or more in prison
Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
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Chamoy Thipyaso | 1989 | 141,078 years | Thailand | World's longest sentence for corporate fraud according to Guinness World Records 2006. Also the longest, non-life, officially confirmed sentence ever handed in the world. She defrauded more than 16,000 Thais in a pyramid scheme worth $204 million at the time.[10] However, the Thai law of the time specified that those convicted of fraud could not serve more than twenty years in prison, and she was released after only eight.[11] |
Othman El Gnaoui | 2007 | 42,924 years | Spain | Sentenced for their roles in the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[12] Under Spanish law, the maximum sentence that any of them can serve is 40 years. The release date is scheduled for March 19, 2044 for all three.[13] It's the longest, non-life, officially confirmed sentence ever handed in European Union. |
Jamal Zougam | 42,922 years | |||
Emilio Suárez Trashorras | 34,715 years | |||
Charles Scott Robinson | 1994 | 30,000 years | United States | Longest jail term to a single American on multiple counts. Also the longest sentence ever handed in the U.S. Robinson was sentenced to 5,000 years for each of the six counts against him for raping a 3-year-old girl.[14] |
Allan Wayne McLaurin | 1994 | 20,750 years | United States | Accomplice of Darron Bennalford Anderson. Upon appeal, his sentence was reduced by 500 years.[15] |
Darron Bennalford Anderson | 11,250 years | Greatest amount of jail time given as a result of an appeal. Found guilty of crimes ranging from rape of an elderly woman in Tulsa County, to larceny, robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to 2,250 years. He appealed, was reconvicted, re-sentenced and received an additional jail term of 9,500 years, later reduced by 500 years.[16] Release date scheduled to be on August 1, 9746.[15] | ||
Rigoberto Vazquez Hernandez | 2013 | 7,000 years | United States | Perpetrator of a 2013 triple homicide outside of a nightclub in Dallas where he shot three people point blank.[17] |
Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi | 2012 | 7,000 years | United States | Perpetrator of 2012 shooting outside a southwest Houston nightclub that left three people dead and two others injured, including rapper Trae tha Truth.[18][19] |
Carlos Antonio Carias López | 2011 | 6,060 years | Guatemala | Former soldiers sentenced for their roles in the 1982 Dos Erres massacre.[20][21] |
Daniel Martínez Martínez | ||||
Reyes Collin Gualip | ||||
Manuel Pop | ||||
Pedro Pimentel Ríos | 2012 | |||
Franklin Joseph Ransonette | 1973 | 5,005 years | United States | Pair of brothers given 5,005 years each in Dallas, Texas for the kidnapping of Amanda Mayhew Dealey, the daughter-in-law of Joe Dealey, the then-President of the Dallas News. The brothers had kept Dealey in an abandoned duplex for 60 hours and released her after her family paid a ransom of $250,000. The brothers were arrested, and the money recovered, just four hours after her release.[22][23][24] Woodrow Ransonette was released on parol in 1999, and Franklin Ransonette died in prison in 2008.[25] |
Woodrow Holmes Ransonette | ||||
Henri Parot | 1990 | 4,797 years | Spain | ETA member found guilty of 26 murders and 166 attempted murders between 1978 and 1990. |
Inés del Río Prada | 1989 | 3,828 years | Perpetrator of the Plaza República Dominicana bombing and other attacks by ETA. Released in 2013 after an attempt by the Spanish government to delay her release until 2017 was overruled by the European Court of Human Rights. | |
Ronnie Shelton | 1989 | 3,195 years | United States | Serial rapist known as Cleveland's "West Side Rapist", terrorized Ohioans for over 5 years in the 1980s, amassing 49 counts of rape and 230 criminal charges overall. Parole date scheduled in 2094. |
Terry Eugene Culley | 1972 | 3,000 years | United States | Convicted in Dallas of the murder of insurance broker Jean Geron.[26] |
Larry D. Kiel | 1992 | 2,501 years | United States | Kiel sold "a small amount" of cocaine to an undercover policeman. After his arrest, 86 grams of cocaine, 40 grams of marijuana, and $1,800 was seized from his car. Kiel received 1,000 years for drug trafficking, 1,000 for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, 250 years for failure to have a tax stamp on the drugs, 250 years for maintaining a vehicle for illegal drugs, and 1 year for possession of drug paraphernalia, for a total of 2,501 years. Paroled in June 16, 2009.[27] |
Robert Floyd Angle | 1971 | 2,500 years | United States | Convicted of the murder of Jack Katz during the robbery of a car parts store in Dallas, Texas.[28] |
Francisco Mujika Garmendia | 2003 | 2,442 years | Spain | Perpetrator of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing. |
Moses Sithole | 1997 | 2,410 years, minimum 930 years | South Africa | Serial killer responsible for most of the so-called "ABC Murders" in Gauteng province, South Africa. Found guilty of 40 counts of rape, 38 counts of murder and six counts of robbery. Parole date scheduled in 2927. |
José María Arregi Erostarbe | 2003 | 2,354 years | Spain | Perpetrator of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing. |
Antón Troitiño | 1989 | 2,232 years | Perpetrator of the Plaza República Dominicana bombing. Released in 2011. | |
José Luis González González | 2012 | 2,035 years | Mexico | Businessman convicted of repeated fraud starting in 2000. Longest sentence ever handed in Mexico.[29] |
Billie Glenn Woolsey | 1988 | 2,000 years | United States | Broke out of Alfalfa County jail in Oklahoma; Woolsey was being held on kidnap and rape charges, and Whitlock had been sentenced to 10 years for receiving stolen property. The men overpowered an officer and stole his police car, later abandoning the car but taking with them an AR-15 automatic rifle and an M-1 carbine, which they used to steal a pickup truck from an oil-field worker. When they were located two days later, they led police on a 32-mile high-speed chase through Bryan and Marshall Counties, exchanging gunfire with them. Two officers were shot, later making a full recovery, and one more was treated for injuries from broken glass. A Bryan County judge gave them 2,000 years each: 1,000 years for shooting with intent to kill, 500 years for possession of stolen property, and 500 years for running a roadblock. Tried separately in Marshall County, they additionally each received two life sentences and 20 years.[30][31][32][33] |
Jackie Dean Whitlock | ||||
Thomas Halliday | 2013 | 1,870 years, minimum 935 years | United States | Convicted of 234 counts of sexual abuse, creating and possessing child pornography for abusing a teenage girl for four years, filming and photographing the abuse. Parole date scheduled in 2948.[34] |
Luis Garavito | 1999 | 1,853 years and 9 days | Colombia | Colombian serial killer and rapist convicted of 138 murders. |
Henri Parot | 1994 | 1,802 years | Spain | For his part in the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing. |
Bentura Ruiz Flores | 1971 | 1,800 years | United States | Convicted of selling $20 worth of heroin to an undercover narcotics agent in Odessa, Texas.[35][36] |
Ronald Yarber | 2017 | 1,652 years[37] | United States | Convicted of raping a disabled child over the course of twelve years.[citation needed] |
Rene Lopez | 2016 | 1,503 years | United States | Convicted of repeatedly raping his daughter over a four-year period. Based on a diary in which she recorded the attacks, corroborated by other evidence, he was convicted of 186 separate assaults. He had rejected 13- and 22-year plea bargain deals, as he maintained his innocence.[38] |
Antonio Rodriguez | 1970 | 1,500 years | United States | Convicted in June 1970 of selling three capsules of heroin to an undercover cop in Dallas, Texas.[39] Paroled in 1981.[40] |
Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi | 2007 | 1,243 years | Spain | Perpetrators of the 1995 Vallecas bombing. |
Ainhoa Múgica Goñi | ||||
James Arthur Guye | 1971 | 1,205 years | United States | Sentenced for the rape and robbery of a Dallas woman and the murder of another inmate while in prison. Released after 14 years.[40] |
Richard Speck | 1972 | 1,200 years, minimum 400 years | United States | Mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966. Sentenced originally to death in the electric chair in 1967, sentence commuted in 1972. Died of a heart attack on December 5, 1991. |
Adnan Oktar | 2018 | 1,075 years | Turkey | Sentenced to 1,075 years for crimes including sexual assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud, and attempted political and military espionage.[41] |
Igor Portu | 2010 | 1,040 years | Spain | Perpetrators of the 2006 Madrid-Barajas Airport bombing. |
Mattin Sarasola | ||||
Mikel San Sebastián | ||||
Rayshun Mullins | 2009 | 1,015 years | United States | Convicted of guilty of 26 crimes for the attacks including rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary.[42] |
Paul Edward Acton Bowen | 2019 | 1,008 years | United States | A former youth pastor who plead guilty to multiple child-sex crimes such as sexual abuse, sodomy, enticing a child for sex, and traveling to meet a child for sexual abuse which included 28 counts involving six boys between the ages of 13 and 16.[43] |
Lee Robertson | 1905 | 1,001 years | United States | A black man convicted in Texas of the attempted assault of Ella Robertson, a white woman.[44][45] |
Larry Joe Knox | 1970 | 1,001 years | United States | Sentenced in March 1970 for the assault and rape of a 24-year-old telephone company employee.[46] Paroled in 1983.[40] |
Allen Brown | 1903 | 1,000 years | United States | A black man convicted in Texas of attempted assault. Brown was also given an additional 25 years by a different jury for burglary.[47] |
Joseph Franklin Sills | 1970 | 1,000 years | United States | Sentenced in February 1970 for the armed robbery of a dry cleaners in Dallas, which netted $73.10.[48][49] Although at the time reported to be "probably the longest" sentence ever handed down in Texas,[50] Lee Robertson's 1905 sentence of 1,001 years was longer. Sills' conviction was upheld on appeal.[51] However, he was released in 1983 after serving 13 years.[40] |
Harold Eugene Hill | 1970 | 1,000 years | United States | Sentenced in June 1970 in Dallas for rape. The Assistant District Attorney had asked for a sentence of 5,000 years.[52] Ronald Lewis Jones, an accomplice to the crime, was given a life sentence.[53] Hill was paroled in 1983.[40] |
Jerry Lee Duffey | 1970 | 1,000 years | United States | Convicted of raping an eight-months-pregnant woman and stealing $3 from her purse. Given 500 years for rape and 500 for robbery with a dangerous weapon.[54][55] In 1973, Duffey's sentence was reduced to two life terms.[56] |
Herbert Fields | 1970 | 1,000 years | United States | Sentenced to 1,000 years each in Oklahoma for first degree rape; sentences upheld in 1972.[57][58] A key witness in the case, Jesse Stewart, died at the time of the sentencing after suffering a broken leg in a motorcycle accident. Stewart had previously told assistant prosecutors that if he testified, he was "a dead man." However, prosecutors believed his death to be a "weird coincidence."[59] |
Jimmy Phillips | ||||
Eddie Ray Byrd | 1971 | 1,000 years | United States | Sentenced for beating a grocery store clerk with an iron bar before robbing the store. Byrd was already serving a different 101 year sentence for robbery, and shortly after a separate jury gave him an additional 10 years for assault with intent to rob.[60] |
Carl Junior Hackathorn | 1971 | 1,000 years | United States | Sentenced for the 1963 murder of Bobbie Jewell Nuttycomb Smith.[61] Hackathorn was originally given the death penalty in 1963, but this was overturned several years later and he was given a new trial, where he was given a term of 1,000 years. The names of the jury members were kept secret after an anonymous telephone caller to the Associated Press threatened to kill the jury members if Hackathorn were not found guilty.[62][63] Hackathorn was paroled in 1976.[64] |
Henry J. Bell | 1972 | 1,000 years | United States | A 19-year old convicted in Dallas, Texas of the rape of a 12-year-old girl. Prosecutors had asked for 3,000 years.[65] |
Solomon James Henry | 1972 | 1,000 years | United States | A 19-year-old convicted in Houston, Texas of the rape of an 18-year old university student.[66][67] |
William Curtis Griffin | 1973 | 1,000 years | United States | Convicted of stealing two credit cards and a penny, which occurred while he was paroled from seven life sentences.[68][69] |
Eugene Spencer Jr. | 1973 | 1,000 years | United States | For the murder of San Antonio policeman Antonio Canales. Spencer was initially assessed a term of 10,000 years,[70][71] and the New York Times reported him as receiving such a sentence.[72] However, under state law, the judge's assessment was not equivalent to a final sentencing,[73] and the amount of time was lowered to 1,000 years shortly after.[74] |
Arthur Franklin | 1984 | 1,000 years | United States | Serial rapist convicted alongside Frankie Owens, who got 500 years.[75] |
Charles DeWayne Butler | 1990 | 1,000 years | United States | Sentenced for the kidnapping, rape, assault, and robbery of a 30-year-old woman in Hugo, Texas.[76] |
Tommie Dean Henson | 1991 | 1,000 years | United States | For raping a 6-year-old girl. Convicted on two counts of rape, two counts of rape by instrumentation, and three counts of forcible sodomy.[77] |
Christopher Campano | 1994 | 1,000 years | United States | Found guilty of first-degree manslaughter of his wife, Caren Campano, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1992.[78] |
William Walter Schermerhorn | 1997 | 1,000 years | United States | Convicted of raping a 3-year-old girl. Given 500 years for lewd molestation and 500 years for producing child pornography.[79] |
Prisoners sentenced to between 500 and 999 years in prison
Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
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Raymond Rodriguez | 1972 | 999 years | United States | Convicted of the murder of Lonnie B. Warren. The prosecution had asked the jury for a sentence of 1,000 years, but they returned with one fewer.[80] |
Gregory Aaron Gadlin | 2013 | 967 years | United States | Convicted on 16 counts of robbery, plus being a felon in possession of a weapon and ammunition.[81] |
Shawn Ryan Thomas | 2015 | 915 years | United States | Convicted on 59 counts of possession of child pornography.[82] Later sentenced to an additional 30 years after pleading guilty to planning to sexually abuse and murder a 9-year-old girl on camera. |
Roy Charles Waller | 2020 | 897 years | United States | Convicted of raping nine women.[83] |
Joseph Dyre Morse | 1966 | 888 years | United States | Janitor imprisoned for the rape and murder of a coed in Colorado University. He proclaimed his innocence until he confessed to the crime in 1980. Died in prison in 2005.[84] |
Sholam Weiss | 2000 | 845 years | United States | Found guilty of participation in the bankruptcy of the National Heritage Life Insurance Corporation in New York. One time featured in the FBI most wanted list. He appealed for a lesser sentence but was denied.[85][86] On January 20, 2021, his sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump.[87] |
David Hall | 2015 | 825 years | United States | Convicted of 10 counts of promoting child pornography and 45 counts of possession of child pornography after creating an online blog that traded child pornography. A registered sex offender, he had previously been convicted in 1996 of attempted sexual assault on a 7-year-old child.[88][89] |
Samuel Hemphill | 1970 | 800 years | United States | A 19-year-old sentenced in Texas for the repeated rape of an 18-year-old girl over the course of several hours.[90] |
Domingo Troitiño | 1989 | 794 years | Spain | Perpetrators and instigator (Santi Potros) of the 1987 Hipercor bombing. |
Josefa Ernaga | ||||
Rafael Caride Simón | 2003 | 790 years | ||
Santiago Arróspide Sarasola a.k.a. "Santi Potros" | ||||
Richard Smith II | 2020 | 775 years, minimum 205 years | United States | West Virginia man convicted of sexually assaulting his infant along with his girlfriend. Found guilty of 11 counts of first-degree sexual abuse, 4 counts of sexual assault and 5 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in position of trust. Given 25 years for first-degree sexual abuse, 25 years for sexual assault, and 100 years for sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in position of trust. A total of a maximum 775 years as a result.[91] |
Juana Barraza | 2008 | 759 years | Mexico | Female serial killer dubbed La Mataviejitas ("The Old Lady Killer"). Sentenced to 759 years in jail for killing and robbing sixteen elderly women in Mexico City, although some believe that she might have over 40 fatal victims. She beat and strangled her victims using moves that she had learnt as a professional wrestler (ring name La Dama del Silencio, "The Lady of Silence"). The sentence specifies that she will be paroled in 2058, at age 100. |
Darrell Wayne Delp | 2014 | 755 years | United States | Found guilty on 50 counts of producing child pornography and 10 counts of aggravated sexual battery.[92][93] |
Mark Anthony Beecham | 2012 | 744 years | United States | Given 99 years each for six counts (one of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sodomy), 20 years for felony first-degree theft of property, and 10 more for felony first-degree bail jumping. Previously sentenced to 120 years for other rapes.[94][95] |
Lonnie James Pebley | 2012 | 736 years | United States | Sentenced for shooting at police officers with an AK-47 during a standoff.[96] |
Lisa Marie Lesher | 2020 | 723 years[97] | United States | Lisa was a mother who raped her daughter and step-daughter. She was found guilty of two counts of first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of first-degree sodomy, one count of sexual torture, and one count of first-degree sexual abuse. Her husband Michael was sentenced 285 years shorter than his wife. |
Antonio Izquierdo | 1994 | 684 years | Spain | Perpetrators of the Puerto Hurraco massacre. Died in prison. |
Emilio Izquierdo | ||||
Alán Nelson Lozada Garay | 2012 | 617 years, 6 months and 17 days | Mexico | Business associate and criminal accomplice of José Luis González González.[29] |
Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito | 2003 | 580 years | Brazil | Brazilian serial killer sentenced for homicide, abuse against dead bodies, and concealment of corpses. Suspected of being responsible for the murder of 42 children.[98] |
Joseph Baldino | 2014 | 525 years | United States | Convicted of one count of soliciting for sex over the internet, four counts of transmitting child pornography and 100 counts of possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to five years in prison for each of the 105 counts to run consecutively.[99] |
Sipho Thwala | 1999 | 506 years | South Africa | Serial killer known as "The Phoenix Strangler" or "Canefield Killer". |
Juan Carlos Seresi | 1991 | 505 years | United States | Convicted of 20 counts of money laundering and 1 count of conspiracy.[100] Release date scheduled to be on July 8, 2419. |
Nazareth Andonian | ||||
Vahe Andonian | ||||
Raul Silvio Vivas | ||||
Shane Michael Emory | 2014 | 500 years | United States | Filmed himself molesting two young children. Pled guilty to 46 charges, including 24 counts of using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct and 10 counts of first degree sexual abuse.[101] |
Frankie Owens | 1984 | 500 years | United States | Serial rapist convicted alongside Arthur Franklin, who got 1,000 years.[75] |
Prisoners sentenced to between 120 and 499 years in prison
Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
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Charles Hoyt McDonnell | 2017 | 495 years | United States | Found guilty on all 11 counts of sexual assault, promoting sexual performance by a child and more than two dozen counts of possession of child pornography.[102] |
Bernard Henry McGinn | 1999 | 490 years | Ireland | Provisional IRA member specialized in explosives. Released in 2000 as per the Good Friday Agreement. |
Guillermo Ocampo | 2009 | 480 years | United States | Convicted of 13 felony counts including four counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and five counts of lewd acts on a child.[103] |
Marc P O'Leary | 2011 | 468 years 6 months | United States | Serial rapist, shown as "Chris McCarthy" in Netflix limited series "Unbelievable";[when?] incorrectly listed in the show as being sentenced to 327.5 years in jail. According to the records of the Colorado Department of Corrections he received three sentences of 48 years to life, one sentence of 32 years to life, eight sentences of 32 years, one sentence of 12 years, two sentences of 4 years, five sentences of 3 years, and one sentence of 18 months all related to case 11CR430. |
Robert Hansen | 1983 | 461 years | United States | Serial killer who abducted women and hunted them for sport in the forests of Alaska. Died in 2014, aged 75. |
Donald Duane King | 1990 | 450 years | United States | Convicted on eight felonies related to child molestation.[104] |
José Antonio Rodríguez Vega | 1991 | 440 years | Spain | Serial killer who raped and murdered at least 16 elderly women in Santander, Spain. Murdered by two other inmates in 2002.[105] |
Dwayne Whitaker | 2014 | 439 years | United States | Convicted in San Francisco on two counts of first-degree burglary, one count of first-degree robbery, one count of attempted robbery, two counts of assault and elder abuse.[106][107] |
Michael William Lesher | 2020 | 438 years | United States | Michael participated in his wife's raping their daughter and step-daughter. A jury found him guilty of 2 counts of first-degree rape, 2 counts of first-degree sodomy, 2 counts of first-degree sexual abuse and 1 count of incest. |
Mark Goudeau | 2011 | 438 years | United States | Serial killer and rapist known as the Baseline Killer, who was active in Phoenix, Arizona. Sentenced to 438 years in prison for the sexual charges alone, and to nine death sentences for his murders. |
Robert Lee Yates | 2000 | 408 years | United States | Serial killer who pled guilty to 13 murders in order to avoid the death penalty. Was sentenced to two death penalties the following year for other murders, but they will not be carried out until the earlier sentence is completed. |
Harvey Carignan | 1975 | 400 years | United States | Serial killer known as "The Want-Ad Killer". |
Antonio Sanchez | 1999 | 360 years | Philippines | Former Mayor of Calauan who masterminded the rape and murder of Eileen Sarmenta and the murder of her boyfriend, Allan Gomez. |
Larry Nassar | 2018 | 360 years, minimum 131 years | United States | Sex offender who abused at least 150 women during his tenure as Team Doctor for USA Gymnastics. |
Kirby Anthoney | 1987 | 357 years | United States | Raped and murdered a mother and her two underage daughters in Anchorage, Alaska. The victims were relatives of Anthoney.[108] |
Onur Kopçak | 2013 | 334 years, 7 months and 10 days | Turkey | Hacker convicted of several charges related to bank and identity fraud.[109] |
Norman Schmidt | 2008 | 330 years | United States | Promised attractive high rates to hundreds of investors, but used the money to cover personal expenses instead of investing it.[85] Found guilty of fraud and money laundering.[110] |
Adrian Anthony | 2015 | 318 years | United States | Found guilty of two counts of rape, three counts of criminal deviate conduct, attempted criminal deviate conduct, robbery, burglary, three counts of carjacking, and robbery. Charges resulting from a 2013 home invasion in Indiana.[111] |
Colin Ferguson | 1995 | 315 years and 8 months+ | United States | Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting. |
Jesús María Zabarte Arregui | 1984 | 300 years | Spain | ETA gunman involved in the September 1982 Rentería attack and other shootings. |
Francisco de Assis Pereira | 1998 | 268 years | Brazil | Serial killer known as "The Park Maniac" who raped and murdered 11 women in São Paulo. |
Daniel Holtzclaw | 2016 | 263 years | United States | Police officer sentenced for his role in abusing women while on patrol duty.[112] |
Thomas Goodman | 2019 | 260 years | United States | Rhode Island man sentenced to 260 years in prison for producing child pornography involving multiple prepubescent children.[113] |
Michael Pugh | 2015 | 248 years | United States | Sentenced for their roles in a 2013 home invasion in Indiana, alongside Adrian Anthony, who received 318 years.[111] |
Demetre Brown | ||||
Alexander Dupree | ||||
Mark Santa Anna | 2010 | 243 years and 8 months | United States | Found guilty of one count of murder, two counts of attempted murders, one count of attempted robbery, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a firearm, two counts of robbery, one count of home invasion robbery, one count of burglary, and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon with two prior convictions.[114] |
Jorge Iniestra Salas | 2015 | 241 years | Mexico | Kept two teenage girls captive as sex slaves for five years, ultimately murdering one of them.[115] |
Bobby Bostic | 1997 | 241 years | United States | Sentenced for two armed robberies and a brief kidnapping on the same day. Bostic was 16 years old at the time, and has the longest juvenile sentence in Missouri for non-homicide offences.[116] |
Eyad Ismoil | 1995 | 240 years | United States | Sentenced for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[117][118] |
Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho | 1999 | 234 years | Brazil | Sentenced for his role in the 2006 São Paulo violence outbreak and for the leadership of the Primeiro Comando da Capital, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Brazil.[119] |
Heriberto Seda | 1998 | 232 years | United States | Copycat of the Zodiac Killer. |
Tandy Tomlin | 2021 | 225 years | United States | Found guilty of 8 counts of rape of a child, 2 counts of aggravated sexual battery, one count of solicitation to commit rape of a child, and one count of solicitation to commit aggravated sexual battery. Originally given 245 years, but appealed one of the eight counts of rape of a child, reducing sentence to 225 years. Reportedly eligible for release on September 22, 2245.[120] |
David Parker Ray | 2001 | 224 years | United States | Serial abductor, rapist and torturer of women active in New Mexico for over forty years. Nicknamed the "Toy-Box Killer" after the name he gave to the homemade torture chamber in his mobile home, but he released all the victims that were proven beyond doubt to be his, after erasing their memory of the attacks with drugs. He was also a suspected serial killer with up to 60 victims. Died in prison in 2002. |
Ali F. Elmezayen | 2019 | 212 years | United States | Father who drowned his sons for insurance money in California. He was found guilty of four counts of mail fraud, four counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and five counts of money laundering.[121] |
Tarkan Yavas | 2018 | 211 years | Turkey | Executive in the organization of Adnan Oktar, who received 1,075 years for various crimes.[41] |
Joel Rifkin | 1994 | 203 years | United States | Serial killer known as "Joel the Ripper." |
Hélio José Muniz Filho | 1997 | 201 years | Brazil | Vigilante who admitted to killing 60 to 65 people. |
Mikeal Shane Pruett | 2015 | 200 years, minimum 50 years | United States | Raped and impregnated his own granddaughter.[122] |
Morton Berger | 2003 | 200 years | United States | He was convicted in 2003 of 20 counts of second-degree dangerous crime against children in Arizona for possessing 20 pornographic images of children. He was sentenced for 10 years for each count, served consecutively. The Arizona Supreme Court upheld his sentence, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. The sentence also prohibits probation, parole, pardon or executive clemency. |
Velupillai Prabhakaran | 2002 | 200 years | Sri Lanka | Leader of the Tamil Tigers sentenced in absentia for planning the truck bombing on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka that killed 91 people and injured 300 in 1996.[123][124] Was killed in action against the Sri Lankan army in 2009. |
Howard Christensen | 1937 | 200 years | United States | Sentenced to life without parole for the murder of a teacher in 1937, when he was 16, along with a 17-year-old accomplice who hanged himself in prison in 1943. His sentence was commuted to 200 years in the mid-1970s. Died in 2003, aged 82.[84] |
Evan Ramsey | 1998 | 198 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Bethel Regional High School shooting. Ffound guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of first-degree attempted murder, and fifteen counts of third-degree assault. Initially sentenced to 210 years, which was reduced to 198 on appeal.[125] |
Richard Cottingham | 1981 | 197 years, minimum 173 years | United States | Serial killer who dismembered women in New York. Nicknamed "the Torso Killer" |
Carlos García Juliá | 1979 | 193 years | Spain | Main perpetrators of the Atocha massacre. García Juliá was granted parole in 1991, which he promptly broke, and fled to South America. He was imprisoned for drug trafficking in Bolivia in 1996. In 2000 he was sentenced in absentia to an additional 3,855 days in prison in Spain for breaking parole. Fernández Cerrá was paroled in 1992.[126] |
José Fernández Cerrá | ||||
Diana Franklin | 2015 | 190 years | United States | Convicted of physically abusing her adopted daughter.[127] |
Oktar Babuna | 2018 | 186 years | Turkey | Executive in the organization of Adnan Oktar, who received 1,075 years for various crimes.[41] |
Francisco Antonio García López | 1968 | 185 years | Puerto Rico | Known as "Toño Bicicleta" ("Tony Bicycle"). Original sentence for murdering his wife with a machete. His numerous escapes and later murders made his life part of Puerto Rican folklore. Killed while resisting arrest in 1995. |
Paulo Sérgio Guimarães da Silva | 2002 | 184 years and 10 months | Brazil | Serial killer known as "The Cassino Maniac". |
James Timothy McCarthy | 2012 | 182 years+ | United States | Convicted of numerous acts of child sexual abuse, including continuous sexual abuse of one child. Sentenced to 32 years in prison followed by 150 to life.[128] |
Greg Stephen | 2019 | 180 years | United States | Former youth basketball coach of the Iowa Barnstormers. Found guilty of five counts of sexual exploitation of minors, one count of possessing child pornography, and one count of transporting child pornography. He is thought to have had at least 440 victims.[129] |
Fernando Silva Sande | 2011 | 178 years | Spain | GRAPO member convicted of four murders in three trials, including the killing of two security guards during the robbery of an armored car in Vigo in 2000. |
Dennis Rader | 2005 | 175 years | United States | Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer known as BTK or the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes.[130] |
Keith O. Wood | 2008 | 160 years | United States | Home invader who raped five women in Pittsburgh between 2000 and 2001.[85][86] |
Ryan Stone | 2015 | 160 years | United States | Carjacked several people, nearly killing a Colorado State Trooper while speeding down a highway. Sentenced for attempted murder among other charges.[131] |
Nathaniel White | 1993 | 150 years | United States | Serial killer who beat and stabbed six women to death while he was on parole for another crime. |
Bernard Madoff | 2009 | 150 years | United States | Admitted defrauding thousands of investors in a Ponzi scheme which had been running since the early 1990s.[132] Died in prison in 2021. |
Richard Allen Minsky | 2001 | 146 years | United States | Used car salesman charged with over 80 counts including rape, assault, battery, extortion, grand theft, larceny, lewd and lascivious behavior, oral copulation, sexual assault, sexual battery, sodomy, and prison escape. Also committed scams in California, Florida (where he was arrested after being featured in America's Most Wanted), Georgia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. |
Alfredo Galán | 2005 | 142 years and 3 months | Spain | Serial killer who murdered six people and wounded three in Madrid. Called "the Deck of Cards Killer" because he would leave a playing card at each scene as his signature. |
Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode | 1997 | 140 years | South Africa | Serial killer known as "The Donnybrook Serial Killer". |
Robert George Irwin | 1938 | 139 years | United States | Artist-sculptor who killed three people over Easter weekend in 1937. Died in 1975. |
Gonzalo Rodríguez Cordero | 1995 | 136 years | Spain | Perpetrators of the Mutxamel bombing. |
José Gabriel Zabala Erasun | ||||
Dwight York | 2004 | 135 years | United States | Leader of the Nuwaubian Nation. Convicted of child molestation and financial crimes.[133][134] |
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah | 1999 | 130 years without parole | United States | Short order cook convicted of abducting, raping and torturing three children, but believed to have committed many more crimes going back to the 1970s. While searching his home, police found a human boy's bone, an African-American male's hair in a meat grinder, and a handwritten cooking book with cannibalistic recipes such as "little boy pot pie", "french fried kid" and "roasted child". Died in prison in 2008. |
Pedro Rodrigues Filho | 2003 | 128 years | Brazil | Vigilante who claims to have killed 100 criminals, including his own father and 43 other prison inmates. Further sentences added his total count to 400 years, but he was released in 2007 as he had completed the maximum 30 years in prison allowed under Brazilian law. |
Joan Vila | 2014 | 127 years and 6 months | Spain | Nursing home watchman who poisoned 11 elderly patients between 2009 and 2010. |
Colton Simpson | 2007 | 126 years | United States | Member of the Crips convicted of robbery, burglary and grand theft, sentenced under California's three-strikes law. Parole date scheduled in 2026. |
Marco Antonio Sián Chávez | 2014 | 122 years | Guatemala | Member of Mara Salvatrucha. Eighty-seven other gang members were given shorter sentences in the same trial.[135] |
Lawrence Davis | 2018 | 120 years | United States | Lawrence Davis was sexually abusing a family member over the course of about 12 years. According to court documents, the abuse started when the girl was 5 or 6 years old and it continued until the victim was about 17 years old. Davis was sentenced to 120 years on May 11, 40 years each for 3 level 1 felonies. He was convicted of 17 out of the 18 counts of child molesting and pornography. 14 counts were incomplete. 7 days later, he was convicted of other felony counts totalling an additional 2 1/2 years on a pornography charge. |
Keith Raniere | 2020 | 120 years | United States | Leader of NXIVM sex cult. |
False claims
Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gabriel March Granados | 1972 | 1 million years | Spain | March, a 22-year-old mailman in Palma de Mallorca, has occasionally been mentioned (sometimes erroneously as "Granados" or "Grandos") as the person sentenced to the longest prison term ever. He failed to deliver 42,784 letters, opening 35,718 of them and stealing their contents for value of 50,000 euro (2010 value). In consequence, March was charged with thousands of counts of fraud, wrongful appropriation of documents (one per undelivered letter) and theft, resulting in an unprecedented request of 384,912 years in prison and a 19-million-euro (2010 value) fine by the prosecutor. However, the judge refused to sentence him to almost a million years. So, the actual sentence imposed was 14 years and 2 months in prison and a fine of 9,000 pesetas (1972 value) and was released after the years.[136][137] |
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