# List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment

This is a list of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment in a single trial, worldwide. The sentence may specify that the life sentences are to be served concurrently or consecutively.

## Prisoners sentenced to more than 20 life sentences

| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
| Terry Nichols | 1995 | 162 consecutive life sentences plus 93 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. |
| Patrick Wood Crusius | 2023 | 90 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2019 El Paso shooting, in which 23 people were killed and 23 more injured; he is also charged in Texas state jurisdiction, and faces the death penalty if found guilty. |
| Reynhard Sinaga | 2020 | 88 concurrent life sentences with parole possible in 40 years | United Kingdom | Indonesian-born Manchester resident who was convicted of 136 rapes from 2015 to 2017 of at least 48 drugged victims, a number that according to British Police is most likely much higher. Also the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed outside the U.S. |
| Michael J. Devlin | 2007 | 74 life sentences, minimum 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. |
| Mongezi Jingxela | 2007 | 55 life sentences plus 1,092 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, convicted of 52 counts of rape, plus 3 counts of being an accomplice to rape. |
| Anderson Lee Aldrich | 2023 | 55 concurrent life sentences without parole plus 190 years (federal) 5 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 2,211 years (state) | United States | Perpetrator of Colorado Springs nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs. |
| Brenton Tarrant | 2020 | 52 life sentences plus 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. |
| Boitumelo Galubetse | 2013 | 51 life sentences plus 780 years | South Africa | Serial rapists who operated a taxi and targeted women alone. |
| Bongani Madlala | 2013 | 49 life sentences plus 780 years | South Africa | Serial rapists who operated a taxi and targeted women alone. |
| 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 murdering 71 prostitutes between 1982 and 1998. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of number of confirmed victims (behind Samuel Little). |
| 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. |
| Nkosinathi Phakathi | 2024 | 42 life sentences plus 791 years | South Africa | Convicted of 90 counts of rape, his attacks were carried out between 2012 and 2021. |
| 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. |
| James Kevin Pope | 2008 | 40 life sentences plus 60 years | United States | Received 40 convictions of sexual assault for abusing three teenage girls. |
| Barry Walker | 2022 | 39 life sentences plus 1,710 years without parole | United States | Serial rapist and former physician who practiced medicine in Arkansas. Pled guilty and received the maximum sentence for raping at least 31 different minor children ranging from as early as 1997 until as late as 2022. |
| Mlungisi Mtshali | 2013 | 39 life sentences plus 212 years | South Africa | Serial rapist known as "Birthday rapist", convicted of 70 other charges including: sexual assault, kidnapping and theft. |
| David Carrick | 2023 | 36 life sentences, minimum 30 years plus 239 days | United Kingdom | Serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape between 2002 and 2021. |
| Martin Bryant | 1996 | 35 life sentences plus 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 life sentences, 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 consecutive life sentences (17 without parole plus a minimum of 380 years) | United States | Perpetrator of the 2018 Parkland high school shooting who plead guilty to killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. |
| Joseph McCann | 2019 | 33 life sentences | United Kingdom | Serial rapist and pedophile who went on a spree of sexually assaulting 11 victims. |
| Sinja Mabitsela | 2017 | 32 life sentences plus 275 years | South Africa | One of the balaclava rapists, claims he was forced by his partner Josias Mkansi. |
| Warren Troy Knoop | 2017 | 32 life sentences plus 170 years | South Africa | Found guilty of 870 charges of child rape, exploitation, sexual assault and child pornography. |
| Albert Morake | 2015 | 30 life sentences, minimum 1,535 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, convicted of other crimes including: robbery, attempted murder and kidnapping. |
| Bobby Joe Long | 1985 | 28 life sentences plus 104 years | United States | 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 life sentences | United States | Hospital orderly who pled guilty to murdering 37 people in Toledo, Ohio between 1970 and 1987, although Harvey has claimed to have killed 87 individuals. Murdered at Toledo Correctional Institution in 2017. |
| Cedric Maake | 2000 | 27 life sentences plus 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences without parole | United States | 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 at California State Prison, Corcoran. |
| Richard William Huckle | 2015 | 22 life sentences, minimum 25 years | United Kingdom | Sexually abused 23 children in Malaysia over a ten-year period. Murdered at HM Prison Full Sutton in 2019. |
| Natalie Wagner | 2024 | 21 life sentences plus 800 years | United States | Recorded and sold videos of herself sexually abusing her children, aged 1 and 3, to Snapchat users. |
| Chester Arthur Stiles | 2009 | 21 life sentences, minimum 140 years | United States | 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. |
| Patrick Wayne Kearney | 1977 | 21 life sentences with a minimum of 7 years to run concurrently | United States | Serial killer who killed 21–43 young men from 1962-to-1977. Sentenced by Superior Judge John Hews to 21 life sentences with a minimum of 7 years to run concurrently denied parole on June 21, 1984, April 29, 1987, July 23, 1990, June 29, 1993, October 30, 1996, January 10, 2002, February 22, 2007, and on January 31, 2012. The next time Kearney will be eligible for parole will be January 2027 |
| Hugh Callahan | 1975 | 21 life sentences | United Kingdom | Six Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991. |
| Gerard Hunter | 1975 | 21 life sentences | United Kingdom | Six Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991. |
| Patrick Joseph Hill | 1975 | 21 life sentences | United Kingdom | Six Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991. |
| Richard McIlkenny | 1975 | 21 life sentences | United Kingdom | Six Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991. |
| William Power | 1975 | 21 life sentences | United Kingdom | Six Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991. |
| John Walker | 1975 | 21 life sentences | United Kingdom | Six Northern Irishmen called the "Birmingham Six" after their arrests and false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. The convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and the prisoners released on 14 March 1991. |

## Prisoners sentenced up to 20 life sentences

| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
| Bernardo Provenzano | 2006 | 20 life sentences + 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 life sentences without parole for 30 years | United Kingdom | Serial killer known as "the Yorkshire Ripper" who murdered 13 people and attempted to murder 7 others between 1975 and 1980. Died in 2020 of COVID-19. |
| Charles Cullen | 2006 | 18 life sentences without parole for 497 years | United States | Nurse who confessed to have killed 40 patients from 1988 to 2003. |
| Jazzman Rikhotso | 2012 | 17 life sentences plus 164.5 years | South Africa | Serial rapist known as "the Avalon Cemetery Rapist". Rikhotso would prey on females visiting gravesites of loved ones between 2008 and 2010. |
| Alexandros Giotopoulos | 2003 | 17 life sentences plus 25 years | Greece | Leader of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November. |
| Benjamin Geen | 2006 | 17 life sentences without parole for 30 years | United Kingdom | Male nurse who injected 17 patients with muscle relaxants between 2003 and 2004. Seven underwent respiratory arrests as a result and two died. |
| Abd al-Hadi Rafa Ghanim | 1989 | 16 life sentences | Israel | Perpetrator of the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack. |
| David Randitsheni | 2009 | 16 life sentences plus 220 years | South Africa | Serial killer who abducted, raped and murdered children. Hanged himself three weeks after conviction. |
| Ricky Wassenaar | 2005 | 16 life sentences | United States | One of two inmates responsible for a 2004 hostage-taking incident in Arizona State Prison Complex – Lewis which is located at Buckeye, Arizona. |
| Jeffrey Dahmer | 1992 | 16 life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer known as "the Milwaukee Cannibal" who murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991. While behind bars, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver in 1994. |
| Harold Shipman | 2000 | 15 life sentences plus 4 years | United Kingdom | Medical doctor believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in the world, with more than 218 victims. Died by suicide at HM Prison Wakefield in 2004. |
| Robert Hanssen | 2001 | 15 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for 22 years. Died at ADX Florence in 2023. |
| Lucy Letby | 2023 | 15 life sentences | United Kingdom | Neonatal nurse who murdered 7 babies. |
| Josias Mkansi | 2017 | 14 life sentences plus 185 years | South Africa | One of the balaclava rapists, claims he was innocent and framed by his partner Sinja Mabitsela. |
| Earl Bradley | 2011 | 14 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 165 years | United States | Convicted of molesting, raping, and sexually exploiting dozens of child patients. |
| Mzikayise Mkavu | 2017 | 13 life sentences plus 228 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, other crimes include assault, robbery and attempted murder. |
| Thozamile Taki | 2011 | 13 life sentences plus 208 years | South Africa | Serial killer known as "The Sugarcane Killer" who murdered 13 women. |
| Leoluca Bagarella | 1995 | 13 life sentences + 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 life sentences without parole | Italy | Serial killer active in the Italian Riviera. |
| Michael Wheatley | 2002 | 13 life sentences plus 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 life sentences | United Kingdom | Nurse who fatally poisoned four children and attempted to kill nine others at Grantham and District Hospital in 1991. |
| Timothy Krajcir | 2008 | 13 life sentences | United States | Serial killer who murdered nine women in Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Sentence resulting from a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. |
| Axel Rudakubana | 2025 | 13 life sentences | United Kingdom | Perpetrator of the 2024 Southport stabbings, He was convicted of three counts of murder and ten counts of attempted murder. |
| James Eagan Holmes | 2015 | 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole | United States | 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. |
| Ra Diggs | 2015 | 12 life sentences plus 105 years | United States | Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist who was convicted of charges of racketeering, drug dealing, and three murders. |
| Bhekithemba Fanozi Nxumalo | 2024 | 12 life sentences plus 75 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, went on a raping spree starting in 2012 until he was caught in 2021. |
| Mandisa Ngcobo | 2024 | 12 life sentences plus 55 years | South Africa | Planned attack on a drug business, 15 victims were forced into a small bathroom and set on fire. |
| Mthobisi Makhathini | 2024 | 12 life sentences plus 55 years | South Africa | Planned attack on a drug business, 15 victims were forced into a small bathroom and set on fire. |
| Sanele Aubrey Phetha | 2024 | 12 life sentences plus 55 years | South Africa | Planned attack on a drug business, 15 victims were forced into a small bathroom and set on fire. |
| Joseph James DeAngelo | 2020 | 12 life sentences without parole plus 8 years | United States | The Golden State Killer who was given 11 life terms for murder, 1 life term for kidnapping, and 8 years for a weapons charge. |
| Valerie Moore | 2007 | 12 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the Mizpah Hotel fire. |
| Joe O'Connell | 1977 | 12 life sentences without parole | 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 life sentences without parole | 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 life sentences without parole | 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 life sentences without parole | United Kingdom | Provisional IRA members captured after the 1975 Balcombe Street siege. All released in 1999 as per the Good Friday Agreement. |
| Roger Kingsley Dean | 2013 | 11 life sentences plus 12 years without parole | Australia | Perpetrator of the 2011 Quakers Hill Nursing Home fire in Quakers Hill, New South Wales where he worked as a nurse, to cover up his theft of painkillers. 11 patients died and eight others were injured in the blaze. |
| Charles Juan Proctor | 2010 | 11 life sentences plus 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. |
| Payton S. Gendron | 2023 | 11 life sentences plus 90 years without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2022 Buffalo shooting in which he murdered 10 people. |
| Soyisiso Nofemele | 2012 | 11 life sentences plus 10 years | South Africa | Child rapist, he was convicted of 12 counts of rape and abduction and 1 count of murder. |
| Joseph Edward Duncan III | 2011 | 11 life sentences without parole | United States | Convicted of the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez in California, and the 2005 kidnapping of the Groene family (murdering 4 of them). Duncan's 11 sentences comes from 3 life terms in 2006 from a state court, 6 life terms in 2008 (3 from a state court, and the other 3 from a federal court), and 2 life terms in 2011 from a California court. Died in 2021 while at United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute. |
| John Justin Bunting | 2003 | 11 life sentences without parole | Australia | Ringleader and main perpetrator of the Snowtown murders. |
| George Harold Davis | 2004 | 11 life sentences without parole | United States | 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 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | 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. |
| James Ruppert | 1975 | 11 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the 1975 "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. Ruppert died of natural causes in 2022. |
| Benjamin Atkins | 1992 | 11 life sentences | United States | 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. |
| Juan García Abrego | 1997 | 11 life sentences | United States | Drug lord who helped funnel cocaine and marijuana into the United States from Mexico. |
| Dimitris Koufontinas | 2003 | 11 life sentences | Greece | Main assassin of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November. |

## Prisoners sentenced up to 10 life sentences

| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
| Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa | 2024 | 10 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 1,334 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2021 Boulder shooting. |
| Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov | 2023 | 10 life sentences plus 260 years without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2017 New York truck attack, in which 8 people were killed and 11 more injured. |
| Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera | 1991 | 10 consecutive life sentences plus 45 years without parole | United States | Chief assassin of the Medellin Cartel, responsible of the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 among others. |
| Frank Robert James | 2023 | 10 concurrent life sentences plus 10 years without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2022 New York City Subway attack in which injured 29 people, including 10 from gunfire. Received life for each person he attempted to murder, and an extra 10 years for a firearms charge. |
| Dennis Rader | 2005 | 10 life sentences with parole possible after 175 years | United States | Serial killer who is nicknamed the "BTK Killer" murdered at least 10 people between 1974 and 1991 in Kansas. |
| Robert Joe Wagner | 2003 | 10 life sentences without parole | Australia | One of the perpetrators of the Snowtown murders in which 12 people were killed around the Adelaide, South Australia area in the 1990s. |
| Robert Bates | 1979 | 10 life sentences | 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). |
| Xolani Gcelu | 2024 | 9 life sentences plus 158 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, committed several other crimes including kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder. |
| Jean-Paul Akayesu | 1998 | 9 life sentences, minimum 25 years | United Nations | Found guilty of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Serves his sentence in a Benin prison since 2020 He was detained in Mali from 2001 until 2020, and before 2001 in ICTR custody in The Hague. |
| Sean Kelly | 1995 | 9 life sentences | 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 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 95 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2015 Charleston church shooting in which he murdered 9 people. Currently at USP Terre Haute on death row awaiting execution. |
| Johnathan Doody | 2014 | 9 life sentences | United States | One of two perpetrators of the 1991 Waddell Buddhist temple shooting. |
| Craig Petties | 2013 | 9 life sentences | United States | Convicted drug trafficker from Memphis, Tennessee. |
| Robert Bever | 2016 | 9 life sentences, one with parole | United States | One of the perpetrators of the Broken Arrow murders. 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. After trying to attack two staff people, he was given 3 extra life terms. |
| Thokozani Jiyane | 2021 | 8 life sentences plus 223 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, other crimes include robbery, kidnapping, fraud and assault. |
| Sibusiso Duma | 2009 | 8 life sentences plus 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 consecutive life sentences plus 30 years without parole | United States | Anarchistic terrorist who killed three and injured 23 with parcel bombs. Died in prison at Federal Medical Center, Butner in 2023. |
| Patrick Magee | 1986 | 8 life sentences 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. |
| George Wagner IV | 2022 | 8 life sentences plus 121 years | United States | One of the perpetrators of the Pike County shootings. |
| El Shafee Elsheikh | 2022 | 8 concurrent life sentences without parole | United States | Member of 'The Beatles', a terrorist cell of four which was part of Islamic state, as "Ringo". His friend, Alexanda Kotey, who was also part of the group as "George", was also given a life sentence and is incarcerated at ADX Florence. Both were captured in February 2018 while trying to fled the collapse of Islamic State. Other two members of the group, "John" and "Paul" were killed and captured, respectively, in November 2015. |
| Edmund Kemper | 1973 | 8 life sentences | United States | Serial killer nicknamed "The Co-Ed Butcher." |
| Alfred Gaynor | 2000 | 8 life sentences | United States | Serial killer from Massachusetts who was convicted of 8 murders, 4 of which in 2000 and the other 4 in 2010. |
| Michael Lee Cummins | 2023 | 8 life sentences without parole. | United States | Perpetrator of the 2019 Sumner County murders in which he murdered multiple members of his own family and his girlfriend's. |
| Nairi Hunanyan | 1999 | 8 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of 2011 Seal Beach shooting. |
| Kendall Francois | 2000 | 8 life sentences | United States | Murdered at least 8 women in upper New York between 1996 and 1998. Fancois died in 2014 while at Wende Correctional Facility. |
| Ronald Dominique | 2008 | 8 life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer who raped and murdered over 23 men in Louisiana between 1997 and 2008. |
| Torrens Knight | 1993 | 8 life sentences | 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. |
| One L. Goh | 2017 | 7 life sentences plus 271 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2012 Oikos University shooting. |
| Jeffrey Kollie | 1996 | 7 life sentences plus 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 life sentences plus 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. |
| Jared Lee Loughner | 2012 | 7 life sentences plus 140 years without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting. |
| Ivan Milat | 1996 | 7 life sentences plus 18 years without parole | Australia | Perpetrator of the Backpacker murders. Died in 2019 of cancer. |
| Paul Michael Merhige | 2011 | 7 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the 2009 Thanksgiving murders. |
| Michael Morgan McDermott | 2002 | 7 life sentences without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2000 Edgewater Technology shooting. |
| Walter E. Ellis | 2011 | 7 life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer known as the "Milwaukee North Side Strangler." Died in prison in 2013. |
| Samuel Sidyno | 2000 | 7 life sentences 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 life sentences without parole for 8 years | United Kingdom | Serial rapist active over a large area of southern England. Died at HM Prison Wakefield in 2018. |
| Todd Kohlhepp | 2017 | 7 life sentences without parole. | United States | Murdered 7 people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016, 4 of which was at a bike shop. |
| Reta Mays | 2021 | 7 life sentences without parole. | United States | Murdered 7 elderly veterans at Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in West Virginia by injecting patients with lethal doses of insulin. |
| Ahlam Albashir | 2024 | 7 life sentences | Turkey | Perpetrator of the 2022 Istanbul bombing. |
| Stewart Wilken | 1998 | 7 life sentences | 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 life sentences | Greece | Greek Cypriot former army officer who confessed to the Mitsero murders. |
| Ami Popper | 1991 | 7 life sentences | 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 consecutive life sentences plus 1,067 years without the possibility of parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack in which he plowed his SUV into the event, murdering 6 and injuring a further 62. |
| Rayshun Mullins | 2009 | 6 life sentences plus 1,015 years | United States | Serial rapist who attacked 9 women between 2003 and 2004. Convicted on 26 counts, which included rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary. |
| Larry Hoover | 1997 | 6 life sentences plus 200 years | United States | Co-founder of the street gang, the Gangster Disciples. |
| Linda Hayes | 2015 | 6 life sentences plus 106 years | United States | One of two perpetrators of the Cheshire murders. First given six death penalties and 106 years at a 2010 trial, which were changed to life sentences after Connecticut abolished the death penalty. |
| Chai Vang | 2004 | 6 consecutive life sentences plus 70 years without parole | United States | California National Guard veteran who killed six hunters and wounded another two during a hunting trip to northern Wisconsin. |
| Peter Odighizuwa | 2004 | 6 life sentences without parole plus 28 years. | United States | Perpetrator of the 2002 Appalachian School of Law shooting in which he murdered 3 people. |
| Malcolm George Baker | 1992 | 6 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | Australia | Perpetrator of the 1992 Central Coast massacre in which Baker went on a spree killing at Central Coast (New South Wales), murdering 6 people. |
| Abdelkrim Belachheb | 1984 | 6 life sentences plus 20 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 1984 Dallas nightclub shooting. |
| Jason Brian Dalton | 2019 | 6 life sentences without parole. | United States | Perpetrator of the 2016 Kalamazoo shootings in which he murdered 6 people. |
| John Wayne Glover | 1990 | 6 life sentences without parole | Australia | Serial killer of elderly women in Sydney. Hanged himself in prison in 2005. |
| Lee Boyd Malvo | 2006 | 6 life sentences without parole | United States | Accomplice of John Allen Muhammad in the Beltway Sniper killings. Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009. |
| Efren Saldivar | 2002 | 6 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist. |
| Zacarias Moussaoui | 2006 | 6 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | French Moroccan who pleaded guilty to conspiring to take part in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |
| Terry Blair | 2008 | 6 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer and rapist active in Kansas City, Missouri. Blair died in May 2024. |
| James William Miller | 1980 | 6 life sentences 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 life sentences without parole for 25 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Amityville family massacre. Defeo died in 2021. |
| Elmer Wayne Henley | 1974 | 6 life sentences | United States | Teenage accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll in the Houston Mass Murders, whom he also killed in self-defence. |
| David Berkowitz | 1978 | 6 life sentences | United States | Serial killer of couples known as "Son of Sam" and "the .44 Caliber Killer." |
| Michele Anderson | 2016 | 6 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the 2007 Carnation murders in which she and her boyfriend murdered multiple members of her family. |
| John Childs | 1979 | 6 life sentences | United Kingdom | Contract killer. |
| Bruce Johnston | 1981 | 6 consecutive life sentences | United States | Philadelphia gang leader convicted of six murders and one attempt. Johnston died in 2002 while at State Correctional Institution – Graterford. |
| Daniel Gonzalez | 2004 | 6 life sentences | United Kingdom | Mentally ill spree killer. Died by suicide in prison. |
| Paul Steven Haigh | 1991 | 6 life sentences | Australia | Responsible for the murder of 7 people. |

## Prisoners sentenced up to 5 life sentences

| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
| Jarrod Warren Ramos | 2021 | 5 consecutive life sentences without parole plus 345 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting. |
| Happy Mukwevho | 2023 | 5 life sentences plus 222 years | South Africa | Serial rapist, committed several other crimes including kidnapping and robbery. |
| Jorge Avila-Torrez | 2010 | 5 consecutive life sentences plus 168 years | United States | Former US Marine convicted of raping five people in Virginia. Later convicted and sentenced to a further 100 years for the 2005 kidnapping, rape, and murder of two young girls in Illinois. |
| Esteban Santiago-Ruiz | 2018 | 5 life sentences without parole plus 120 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2017 Fort Lauderdale airport shooting in which he murdered 5 people and injured 6 others. |
| Donald Neilson | 1976 | 5 life sentences plus 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. |
| Demetrius Terrence Frazier | 1993 | 5 life sentences plus 60 to 90 years | United States | Convicted of killing a girl and a woman in Michigan and Alabama respectively. Sentenced to four life terms in Michigan and received both a death sentence and a fifth life sentence in Alabama. Frazier was executed in the Alabama gas chamber on February 6, 2025. |
| Samir Kuntar | 1979 | 5 life sentences plus 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 having 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 life sentences plus 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 having 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 life sentences plus 40 years | Israel | Leader of the Second Intifada and alleged founder of Tanzim. |
| Michael Bever | 2018 | 5 life sentences plus 28 years | United States | Michael Bever was involved in his brother's crimes. |
| Christopher Bryan Speight | 2013 | 5 life sentences plus 18 years. | United States | Perpetrator of the 2010 Appomattox shootings. |
| Leonard Fraser | 1999 | 5 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | Australia | Serial killer known as "the Rockhampton Rapist." Died in prison in 2007. |
| Robert Mark Steele | 1993 | 5 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | Australia | Spree killer captured after the 1993 Cangai siege. Hanged himself in prison in 1994. |
| Christopher Watts | 2018 | 5 life sentences without parole plus 84 years | United States | 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. |
| Chester William Fewins | 2020 | 5 life sentences plus 59 years | United States | Convicted on 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. |
| John List | 1990 | 5 life sentences without parole | United States | Killed his wife, mother and children 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 life sentences without parole | Australia | Serial killer and contract killer who murdered 5 people between 1984 and 1994. |
| Faye Copeland | 1999 | 5 life sentences without parole | United States | 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 row in 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 life sentences 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 life sentences | Australia | Serial killer known as "the Sydney Mutilator." Died in prison in 2015. |
| Colin Ireland | 1993 | 5 life sentences | United Kingdom | Serial killer of homosexual men nicknamed "the Gay Slayer." Died in prison in 2012. |
| Binh Thai Luc | 2018 | 5 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the Lei family murders. |
| John Stanfa | 1995 | 5 life sentences | United States | Boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family between 1991 and 1995. |
| Kirby Logan Archer | 2008 | 5 consecutive life sentences | United States | Pled guilty to hijacking a fishing vessel and murdering its crew. Was found adrift in said vessel in 2007. |
| Gwendolyn Graham | 1989 | 5 life sentences | United States | 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. |
| Robert Xie | 2017 | 5 life sentences | Australia | Perpetrator of the 2009 Lin family murders. |
| Steven Dale Green | 2009 | 5 life sentences | United States | One of the perpetrators of the 2006 Mahmudiyah rape and killings which occurred in Iraq during the Iraq War. Died by suicide in 2014 at United States Penitentiary, Tucson. |
| Nathaniel Veltman | 2024 | 5 life sentences with parole possible after 25 years | Canada | Perpetrator of the 2021 London, Ontario truck attack in which he plowed his vehicle into a family of five waiting to cross the road at an intersection, murdering four of them. |
| Joseph Eaton | 2024 | 4 life sentences plus 290 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2023 Bowdoin–Yarmouth shootings. |
| Herman See | 2020 | 4 life sentences plus 221 years | United States | Father convicted on 22 counts of rape against his own daughters. Sentenced along with his wife, Angela Stites (who received 86 years). |
| Dametrius Marquel Sims | 2024 | 4 consecutive life sentences plus 90 years | United States | Lead a group that was involved in at least six robberies targeting restaurants and delivery drivers in Gwinnett county between August and October 2017. |
| Stanislav Beloruscev | 2010–2017 | 4 life sentences plus 51 years imprisonment | Russia | Serial killer who murdered elderly people and acquaintances in his hometown of Krasnokamsk. Notable for confessing to new crimes over a period of several years. |
| Raffaele Cutolo | 1979 | 4 life sentences | Italy | Boss and founder of the NCO, a Camorra organization. Cutolo was one of the longest prisoners in Italy and finally died in 2021 imprisoned. |
| Robert Aaron Long | 2021 | 4 consecutive life sentences plus 35 years without parole | United States | Perpetrator of 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, in which 8 people were killed and one more was injured. However, this sentence is for conviction for shooting in Cherokee county, where 4 out of 8 victims were killed. |
| Nicolai Bonner | 2005 | 4 life sentences plus 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 life sentences plus 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 life sentences without parole plus 20 years | United States | Serial killer nurse who injected patients at the Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center with epinephrine, inducing heart attacks. |
| Michael Lupo | 1987 | 4 life sentences plus 14 years | United Kingdom | Serial killer known as "The Wolf Man", who murdered homosexual men in London. Died from AIDS-related complications in 1995. |
| Nicholas Tartaglione | 2024 | 4 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Convicted of 2016 quadruple murder connected to botched drug deal. |
| Cosmo DiNardo | 2018 | 4 life sentences | United States | One of two perpetrators of the July 2017 Pennsylvania murders. |
| Jeremy Strohmeyer | 1998 | 4 life sentences without parole | United States | 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 life sentences without parole | 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. |
| Samuel Little | 2014 | 4 life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer who murdered at least 60 people and confessed to murdering 93 people. This convictions is for four of the killings, and Little was not prosecuted for the rest of them. Died in prison in 2020. |
| Howell Emanuel Donaldson III | 2023 | 4 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer who in 2017 shot dead 4 people in Seminole Heights neighbourhood of Tampa, Florida. |
| Bandali Debs | 2011 | 4 life sentences plus 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 life sentences without parole for 26 years | Australia | Perpetrator of the Snowtown murders. |
| David Birnie | 1996 | 4 life sentences 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 life sentences 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 life sentences (two of them without parole) | United States | Perpetrator of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing. |
| Denis Goldberg | 1964 | 4 life sentences | South Africa | Technical advisor to uMkhonto we Sizwe, convicted at the Rivonia Trial. Released in 1985. |
| David Johnston | 1981 | 4 life sentences | United States | Brothers of Bruce Johnston and members of his gang. |
| Norman Johnston | 1981 | 4 life sentences | United States | Brothers of Bruce Johnston and members of his gang. |
| Barry Mills | 2006 | 4 life sentences | United States | Leader of the Aryan Brotherhood. Died at ADX Florence in 2018. |
| Waldo Grant | 1978 | 4 life sentences | United States | Serial killer active in New York. |
| Wayne Boden | 1971 | 4 life sentences | Canada | Serial killer and rapist known as "The Vampire Rapist and Strangler Bill". |
| Nicholas Browning | 2009 | 4 life sentences | United States | Teenager who murdered his family. |
| Brandon Tholmer | 1986 | 4 life sentences | United States | Murdered 12–34 people between 1981 and 1983. |
| Mario Normore | 2023 | 4 life sentences | United States | Murdered 4 people in 2017. |
| Daron Wint | 2019 | 4 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the D.C. mansion murders. |

## Prisoners sentenced up to 3 life sentences

| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
| Dudley Wayne Kyzer | 1981 | 3 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. Denied parole 10 times, the most recent being in 2016. |
| Heather Pressdee | 2024 | 3 life sentences plus 380–760 years | United States | Pennsylvania nurse who murdered 3 people through lethal doses of insulin. |
| Richard Reid | 2003 | 3 consecutive life sentences plus 110 years without parole | United States | British-born terrorist who tried to detonate a bomb with shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 in 2001. |
| Shaun Gallon | 2019 | 3 life sentences plus 94 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2004 Jenner, California, double murder. |
| Marcel Wayne Williams | 1994 | 3 life sentences plus 70 years | United States | Sentenced to death for the murder of Stacy Rae Errickson and also three terms of life imprisonment plus 70 years for kidnapping, robbing and raping Errickson in the same case. Executed on April 24, 2017. |
| Sylvia Seegrist | 1986 | 3 life sentences plus 70 years | United States | Paranoid schizophrenic who opened fire in a shopping mall outside Philadelphia, killing three and injuring seven before being disarmed by another shopper. |
| Rockne Warren Newell | 2015 | 3 life sentences plus 61–122 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2013 Ross Township Municipal Building shooting. |
| Ronnie O'Neal | 2021 | 3 life sentences plus 60 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2018 Riverview murders. |
| Michael Kanaan | 2001 | 3 life sentences plus 50 years and 4 months | Australia | Serial killer who murdered 3 people in Sydney in 1998. |
| John Cribb | 1978 | 3 life sentences plus 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 life sentences plus 40 years | United States | 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 life sentences plus 40 years | United States | 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. |
| Wasim a-Sayed | 2025 | 3 life sentences plus 40 years | Israel | Palestinian serial killer linked to ISIS who murdered three people and attempted to murder two others between 2019 and 2022. |
| Natasha Wallen Cornett | 1998 | 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | United States | Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders. |
| Edward Dean Mullins | 1998 | 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | United States | Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders. |
| Joseph Lance Risner | 1998 | 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | United States | Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders. |
| Crystal R. Sturgill | 1998 | 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | United States | Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders. |
| Jason Blake Bryant | 1998 | 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | United States | Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders. |
| Karen R. Howell | 1998 | 3 life sentences plus 25 years without parole | United States | Perpetrators of the Lillelid murders. |
| Hugo Pastén Espinoza | 2022 | 3 life sentences (with the possibility of parole in 120 years) plus 20 years | Chile | Serial killer responsible for three murders occurred in 2019. |
| Ashley Coulston | 1992 | 3 life sentences plus 7 years without parole | Australia | Triple murderer and abductor. Also a suspect in the Balaclava Killings of 1979–1980. |
| Arthur Hutchinson | 1984 | 3 life sentences with minimum of 18 plus 8 years for rape and 5 years for aggressive burglary to run concurrently (later extended to a whole life order) | UK | Triple Murderer who broke into the home of the Laitner family where he stabbed Basil Laitner, 59, Avril Laitner, 55, and there son, Richard Laitner, 28, to death before raping there daughter, Nicola Laitner, 18, at least twice before going on the run. Hutchinson was sentenced by Judge J. McNeil in 1984 to three life sentences with a minimum of 18 years plus 8 years for rape and 5 years for aggressive burglary to run concurrently this sentence was changed to a whole life order on 16 December 1994 by Home Secretary Leon Brittan |
| Patrick Nogueira | 2018 | 3 life sentences plus 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. |
| Willie James Pye | 1996 | 3 life sentences plus 20 years | United States | Convicted of kidnapping, burglary, robbery and rape for the death of his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough in Georgia. Additionally, Pye received the death sentence in Georgia for the most serious charge of murdering Yarbrough, and he was executed by lethal injection in 2024. |
| Martin Leach | 1984 | 3 life sentences without parole | Australia | Stabbed two teenage girls in Berry Springs, Northern Territory in a sexually motivated attack. |
| Dana Ewell | 1992 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Arranged the killings of his father, mother and sister with the intention to inherit the family fortune. |
| Michael Swango | 2000 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Physician who admitted to causing four deaths and suspected of sixty poisonings of patients. |
| Richard Timmons | 2004 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Fatally stabbed his stepson and decapitated his wife and son with an ax in Queens, New York. |
| Ramzi Aouad | 2006 | 3 life sentences without parole | Australia | Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial. |
| Naseam El-Zeyat | 2006 | 3 life sentences without parole | Australia | Convicted in the Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict trial. |
| Alec Devon Kreider | 2008 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | 16-year-old student who murdered a classmate and his classmate's parents in their family home. Died by suicide in prison in 2017 at State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill. |
| Scott Williams | 2008 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Serial killer active in North Carolina. |
| Craig Stephen Hicks | 2019 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2015 Chapel Hill shooting. |
| Peter Dupas | 2010 | 3 life sentences without parole | Australia | Convicted of murder and primarily for being a serious habitual offender. |
| Aaron Schaffhausen | 2013 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Killed his three daughters to spite his ex-wife. |
| Anthony Wayne Smith | 2016 | 3 life sentences without parole | United States | Former National Football League player and serial killer convicted of three murders between 1999 and 2001; acquitted of a fourth murder in 2008. |
| David Brom | 1989 | 3 life sentences without parole for 56 years | United States | Killed his parents, brother and sister with an axe near Rochester, Minnesota. |
| T.J. Lane | 2013 | 3 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the 2012 Chardon High School shooting. |
| Adam Purinton | 2018 | 3 life sentences | United States | Perpetrator of the 2017 Olathe shooting. |
| Johnny Johnson | 2005 | 3 consecutive life sentences | United States | Sentenced to death for the murder of Casey Williamson, in addition to three consecutive life sentences for armed criminal action, kidnapping, and attempted forcible rape. Executed in 2023. |
| Pierre Williams | 2008 | 3 life sentences 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 life sentences 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 life sentences without parole for 30 years | Australia | Serial killer known as "the Frankston Killer." |
| Gregory Brazel | 2005 | 3 life sentences 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 life sentences without parole for 20 years | United Kingdom | Killed his wife and two children. |
| Ian Brady | 1966 | 3 life sentences | United Kingdom | Serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Died in prison in 2017. |
| Frederick Pete Cox | 2003 | 3 life sentences | United States | Murdered 3 women and attacked 2 others in 1997 in Orlando, Florida. |
| Javier Hernán Pino | 2015–2017 | 3 life sentences | 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 life sentences | United States | 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 at Oregon State Penitentiary in 2006. |
| Bernard Pesquet | 1982 | 3 life sentences | France | Serial killer known as "The Landru of Val-d'Oise". |
| Bernhard Prigan | 1953 | 3 life sentences | 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 life sentences | United States | 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 life sentences | France | Serial killer known as "The Ghost of Kehl" |
| Jeffrey R. MacDonald | 1979 | 3 life sentences | United States | Medical doctor who murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters. |
| Reggie Gross | 1989 | 3 life sentences | United States | Heavyweight boxer incarcerated in South Carolina for murdering three people over a card game. |
| Keith Hunter Jesperson | 1995 | 3 life sentences | United States | Serial killer known as "The Happy Face Killer." |
| Chevie Kehoe | 1999 | 3 life sentences | United States | White supremacist convicted of the murder of a family of three. His accomplice, Daniel Lewis Lee was sentenced to death for the same crime. |
| Sef Gonzales | 2004 | 3 life sentences | 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 life sentences | United States | Serial killer active in Philadelphia. |
| James Ford Seale | 2007 | 3 life sentences | United States | 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 life sentences | United States | 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 life sentences | Germany | Serial killer known as "The Staffelstein Killer". |
| 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 in Alabama on Halloween in 1976. Received 10,000 years for the murder of his wife and 2 life sentences for the other two killings. |
| James Alex Fields Jr. | 2019 | 2 life sentences plus 419 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Charlottesville car attack. |
| Robert Lee Yates | 2000 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 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. But they commuted to 2 life sentences without parole. |
| Eugene de Kock | 1996 | 2 life sentences plus 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 life sentences plus 183 years without parole | Australia | Victorian prison escapee and perpetrator of the Bega Schoolgirl Murders. Also convicted of the 1992 murder of Prue Bird. |
| John Timothy Earnest | 2021 | 2 life sentences plus 167 years. | United States | Perpetrator of the Escondido mosque fire and Poway synagogue shooting. Earnest was first convicted by the State of California to a life sentence without parole, a separate 121 years-to-life sentence, and a further 16 years. A few months later, he was given life without parole plus 30 years in federal court. |
| Gabe Parker | 2020 | 2 life sentences without parole for 20 years plus 70 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Marshall County High School Shooting. |
| Ronald A. Baker | 2012 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 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 life sentences plus 60 years | Turkey | Murderer of Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and one of the bombers of the newspaper Cumhuriyet. |
| Naser Jason Abdo | 2012 | 2 consecutive life sentences plus 60 years without parole | United States | Attempted to commit a terrorist attack against a restaurant in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2011. |
| John Albert Gardner | 2010 | 2 life sentences plus 49+ years (one sentence of 24 years and another of 25 years to life) | United States | Serial rapist and murderer of teenage girls in California. |
| Jake Thomas Patterson | 2019 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 40 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Kidnapping of Jayme Closs. |
| Matthew James Harris | 2000 | 2 life sentences plus 40 years without parole | Australia | Serial killer. Tried to overdose twice before his arrest. |
| Ross Ulbricht | 2015 | 2 life sentences plus 40 years without parole | United States | Convicted of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise in United States federal court for operating the Silk Road darknet site. Pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2025. |
| Michael Boatwright | 2018 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 30 years | United States | Murdered 20-year old rapper and singer-songwriter Jahseh Onfroy, a.k.a. XXXTentacion |
| Richard Lee McNair | 1988 | 2 life sentences plus 30 years | United States | Killed a man and attempted to kill another during a botched burglary. |
| Marlon Legere | 2006 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 26 years | United States | 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 life sentences without parole plus 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 life sentences without parole plus 20 years | Australia | Convicted in the Darwiche–Razzak–Fahda family conflict trial. |
| Sarah Marie Johnson | 2005 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 15 years | United States | Murdered her parents Diane and Alan Scott in 2003 when she was 16. Also convicted for enhancing the firearm she used in committing the parricide. |
| Gerry Kelly | 1973 | 2 life sentences plus 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. |
| Beh Meng Chai | 1984 | 2 life sentences plus 20 years (all concurrent) | Singapore | Found guilty of the double manslaughter of Teo Keng Siang and Lee Cheng Tiong in the 1980 Jurong fishing port murders. Also received 24 strokes of the cane. |
| Myra Hindley | 1966 | 2 life sentences plus 7 years | United Kingdom | Perpetrator of the Moors Murders along with her boyfriend, Ian Brady. Died in prison in 2002. |
| Trystan Terrell | 2019 | 2 life sentences without parole | United States | Perpetrator of the 2019 University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting. |
| Wayne Lo | 1994 | 2 life sentences without parole | United States | 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. |
| Johnny Avalos | 2019 | 2 life sentences without parole. | United States | Raped and murdered five people around the San Antonio area between 2012 and 2015. |
| Mark Valera | 2000 | 2 life sentences without parole | Australia | Double murderer. |
| Ward Weaver III | 2004 | 2 life sentences without parole | United States | Double murderer and rapist. |
| Raymond Glen Bassett | 1993 | 2 life sentences 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 life sentences 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 life sentences without parole for 32 years | United Kingdom | Perpetrator of the 2007 London car bombs plot and the Glasgow Airport Attack. |
| Lloyd Crosbie | 2003 | 2 life sentences 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 life sentences 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 life sentences 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 life sentences 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 life sentences | 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 | Before 1950 | 2 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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 life sentences | 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. |
| Ancell E. Hamm | 1972 | 2 life sentences | United States | Member of Bruce Johnston's gang, convicted of murdering two policemen. |
| Marian Price | 1973 | 2 life sentences | United Kingdom | Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade member, sentenced for her part in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing. Released in 1980. |
| Leonard Peltier | 1977 | 2 life sentences | United States | Convicted for the murders of two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation standoff. Sentence commuted under president Joe Biden in 2025. |
| Steven Benson | 1985 | 2 life sentences | United States | Killed his mother and brother, and gravely injured his sister with a car bomb. Died in prison in 2015. |
| Jack Carlton Reed | 1987 | 2 life sentences | United States | Pilot who smuggled cocaine from Norman's Cay in the Bahamas to Florida on behalf of Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder. Sentence shortened to time served and released in 2009, shortly before he died. |
| Richard Kuklinski | 1988 | 2 life sentences | United States | Contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia. |
| Dorothea Puente | 1988 | 2 life sentences | United States | Boarding house director who murdered her elderly and mentally disabled boarders in order to cash on their Social Security checks. Died in prison in 2011. |
| Jens Söring | 1990 | 2 life sentences | United States | Son of a West German diplomat convicted of murdering the parents of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Haysom, a Canadian citizen. Söring and Haysom were arrested in the United Kingdom and extradited to the United States on the condition that neither would face the death penalty. Haysom was sentenced to 90 years in prison in return for testifying against Söring, who denies responsibility. Söring has been released and has been deported to Germany in December 2019. |
| Christopher Scarver | 1994 | 2 life sentences | United States | Convicted to two life sentences for the prison murders of two other inmates, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson, who had murdered his wife and tried to incriminate two innocent men. Scarver was already serving a life sentence for murder at the time. |
| Theresa Knorr | 1995 | 2 life sentences | United States | Tortured and murdered two of her six children and used the others to cover up her crimes. |
| Robert Joseph Silveria Jr. | 1996 | 2 life sentences | United States | Serial killer and member of the Freight Train Riders of America, nicknamed "the Boxcar Killer". Attributed 9–14 murders, claims 24 himself. |
| Caleb Fairley | 1996 | 2 life sentences | United States | Clothing store clerk who abducted a mother and her child when they were shopping there, and murdered both after raping the woman. |
| William Leonard Pickard | 1999 | 2 life sentences | United States | Largest manufacturer of LSD in the US at the time of his arrest. |
| Rodney Berget | 2003 | 2 life sentences | United States | Convicted of kidnapping and attempted murder in 2003. Executed in 2018 for the 2012 murder of a corrections officer during a failed prison escape attempt at South Dakota State Penitentiary. |
| Amy Hebert | 2009 | 2 life sentences | United States | Murdered her children, Camille and Braxton, to punish her ex-husband. |
| V. V. Hamsa | 2010 | 2 life sentences | India | Found guilty of the abduction and murder of progressive Islamic cleric Chekannur Maulavi in Edappal, Kerala in 1993. 9 other people were also charged in this case but found innocent. |
| Michael Joe Nordman | 2012 | 2 consecutive life sentences | United States | Received one life term for raping a young girl in 1990, and also given a second life term for the 2012 murder of a corrections officer at South Dakota State Penitentiary. |
| Soh Wee Kian | 2013 | 2 life sentences | Singapore | Found guilty of the brutal manslaughter of Hoe Hong Lin and the stabbing of How Poh Ling. |
| Ahmad Khan Rahimi | 2018 | 2 life sentences without parole | United States | Perpetrator of 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings, in which 35 people were injured. |
| Alex Murdaugh | 2023 | 2 consecutive life sentences without parole | United States | Killed his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul Murdaugh in 2021. |

## Prisoners sentenced to one life sentence plus additional time

| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
| Devon Erickson | 2021 | Life without parole plus 1,282 years | United States | Co-perpetrator of the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, during which 18-year-old student Kendrick Castillo was killed as he and other classmates tackled Erickson to the ground. He was convicted on 46 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and supplying a juvenile with a handgun. |
| Bryan Cage | 2021 | Life without parole plus 1,248 years | United States | Convicted in May 2021 of attempted capital murder of a police officer and numerous child pornography, weapon, and drug offenses. |
| Ariel Castro | 2013 | Life without parole plus 1,000 years | United States | Serial rapist who abducted and held three young women captive in his Cleveland, Ohio, home for over a decade. Pled guilty to 900 counts of kidnapping and rape in order to avoid a possible death sentence for inducing five miscarriages on one of his victims through violence, poisoning and starvation. Hanged himself in prison, only one month into his sentence. He could have got death penalty plus 9846 years and 6 months if convicted. |
| Bruce Rykeisedagiquan Chambers | 2017 | Life without parole plus 245 years | United States | Members of the 64 Brims gang. Chambers shot and seriously injured a 20-year-old man in 2017 during a gang-related armed robbery, which Salaam oversaw and approved, the release said. Chambers was convicted of 14 felonies, while Salaam was found guilty of six. |
| Ishmael Abdultaliv Salaam | 2017 | Life without parole plus 100 years | United States | Members of the 64 Brims gang. Chambers shot and seriously injured a 20-year-old man in 2017 during a gang-related armed robbery, which Salaam oversaw and approved, the release said. Chambers was convicted of 14 felonies, while Salaam was found guilty of six. |
| Ramzi Yousef | 1998 | Life without parole plus 240 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 and co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot. |
| Carlos Sigears | 2024 | Life plus 160 years | United States | Convicted of sexual assault of a juvenile in Arkansas. |
| Carlos Lehder | 1987 | Life plus 135 years | United States | Colombian drug lord who co-founded the Medellín Cartel and the paramilitary group Muerte a Secuestradores. Sentence reduced to 55 years in 1992 in exchange for testifying against Manuel Noriega. |
| Peter Scully | 2018 | Life plus 129 years | Philippines | Australian sex offender charged in 2015 with rape, human trafficking, production and dissemination of child pornography, and torture of 75 children, as well as the alleged murder of an 11-year-old girl. Sentenced to life in prison in 2018, and received an additional 129 years for a second conviction in 2022. |
| Sante Kimes | 1998 | Life plus 125 years without parole | United States | Con artist convicted of murdering two people. Died in prison in 2014. |
| Naveed Afzal Haq | 2009 | Life plus 120 years | United States | Perpetrator of the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting. |
| Nathan Dunlap | 2020 | Life without parole plus 108 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 1993 Aurora, Colorado, shooting. Originally sentenced to death later commuted to life. |
| Hamdi Quran | 2007 | Life plus 100 years | Israel | PFLP member convicted for the murder of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi. |
| Ralph "Bucky" Phillips | 2006 | Life without parole plus 80 years | United States | Fugitive from Erie County jail who shot three New York State Troopers, killing one. |
| Allan Baker | 1973 | Life plus 55 years | Australia | Burglars who became friends in prison and killed a man and a woman after being paroled, and shot at police, wounding an officer before surrendering after a siege. The woman was also abducted, repeatedly raped and tortured by both. |
| Kevin Crump | 1973 | Life plus 55 years | Australia | Burglars who became friends in prison and killed a man and a woman after being paroled, and shot at police, wounding an officer before surrendering after a siege. The woman was also abducted, repeatedly raped and tortured by both. |
| John Travers | 1987 | Life plus 65 years | Australia | Murderers of Anita Cobby. All except Gary Murphy (life plus 48 years) were originally sentenced to life plus 50 years: Michael Murphy's sentence was ordered to commence on the expiration of a 25-year sentence previously imposed. Travers, Gary Murphy, and Les Murphy have since been sentenced to additional time for other offending prior to the murder and in prison. Michael Murphy died in prison in February 2019. |
| Michael Murdoch | 1987 | Life plus 50 years | Australia | Murderers of Anita Cobby. All except Gary Murphy (life plus 48 years) were originally sentenced to life plus 50 years: Michael Murphy's sentence was ordered to commence on the expiration of a 25-year sentence previously imposed. Travers, Gary Murphy, and Les Murphy have since been sentenced to additional time for other offending prior to the murder and in prison. Michael Murphy died in prison in February 2019. |
| Michael Murphy | 1987 | Life plus 75 years | Australia | Murderers of Anita Cobby. All except Gary Murphy (life plus 48 years) were originally sentenced to life plus 50 years: Michael Murphy's sentence was ordered to commence on the expiration of a 25-year sentence previously imposed. Travers, Gary Murphy, and Les Murphy have since been sentenced to additional time for other offending prior to the murder and in prison. Michael Murphy died in prison in February 2019. |
| Gary Murphy | 1987 | Life plus 50 years | Australia | Murderers of Anita Cobby. All except Gary Murphy (life plus 48 years) were originally sentenced to life plus 50 years: Michael Murphy's sentence was ordered to commence on the expiration of a 25-year sentence previously imposed. Travers, Gary Murphy, and Les Murphy have since been sentenced to additional time for other offending prior to the murder and in prison. Michael Murphy died in prison in February 2019. |
| Les Murphy | 1987 | Life plus 66 years | Australia | Murderers of Anita Cobby. All except Gary Murphy (life plus 48 years) were originally sentenced to life plus 50 years: Michael Murphy's sentence was ordered to commence on the expiration of a 25-year sentence previously imposed. Travers, Gary Murphy, and Les Murphy have since been sentenced to additional time for other offending prior to the murder and in prison. Michael Murphy died in prison in February 2019. |
| Attina Marie Cannaday | 1984 | Life plus 50 years | United States | Originally sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of a man; the sentence was changed because she was only sixteen at the time. Paroled in 2008. |
| Luis Felipe | 1997 | Life plus 45 years | United States | Founder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings, convicted of ordering several murders while he was already in prison. Serves his sentence in solitary confinement. |
| Bruce Burrell | 2006 | Life plus 44 years | Australia | Convicted of murdering two women though their bodies were never found. Died in prison in 2016. |
| Granville Ritchie | 2020 | Life without parole plus 40 years | United States | Ritchie, a Jamaican man, has been arrested first for possessing MDMA, then after he killed 9 year old Felicia Williams, he had possessed 20+ grams of marijuana. He was sentenced to death for her murder. Then, Judge Sisco gave Life without parole for the rape, and then 30 years were added to the aggravated child abuse, and 5 years for each drug possession. |
| Eric Hainstock | 2007 | Life without parole for 30 years | United States | Perpetrator of the 2006 Weston High School shooting. |
| Bernadette McNeilly | 1993 | Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 years | United Kingdom | Murderers of Suzanne Capper. |
| Jean Powell | 1993 | Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 years | United Kingdom | Murderers of Suzanne Capper. |
| Glyn Powell | 1993 | Life without parole 25 years, plus 40 years | United Kingdom | Murderers of Suzanne Capper. |
| Somchai Wisetsingh | 2004 | Life plus 33 years and 4 months | Thailand | Police officer convicted of murdering two British backpackers after an argument. |
| Yishai Schlissel | 2015 | Life plus 31 years | Israel | Religious extremist convicted of stabbing six people during a pride parade, killing one of them. Had gone on a previous stabbing rampage in 2005. |
| Sundiata Acoli | 1974 | Life plus 30 years | United States | Member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Convicted for the death of a New Jersey state trooper during a shooting in which Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed and Assata Shakur was wounded. |
| Joaquin Guzman | 2019 | Life plus 30 years | United States | Drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel |
| Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik | 2007 | Life without parole plus 30 years | United States | Murdered classmate Cassie Jo Stoddart in her aunt and uncle's home on September 22, 2006. |
| Mikal Mahdi | 2011 | Life without parole plus 25 years | United States | Sentenced to life without parole for murdering a convenience store clerk in North Carolina. Also sentenced to death plus 25 years' jail in South Carolina for murdering a police officer and both second-degree burglary and grand larceny. |
| Arthur Hosein | 1970 | Life plus 25 years | United Kingdom | Kidnapper and presumed murderer of Muriel McKay. |
| Antonis Daglis | 1997 | Life plus 25 years | Greece | Serial killer known as "the Athens Ripper." Killed himself seven months after his conviction. |
| Étienne Dedroog | 2014 | Life plus 25 years | Belgium | Serial killer known as "The Lodgers' Killer" and "B&B Murderer". Sentenced to Life by Belgium but 25 years by France. |
| Juri Sulimov | 1994 | Life plus 25 years | Estonia | Serial killer who killed 2 prisoners and 1 civilian. Previously sentenced to death but his sentence for the murder of the last victim had been commuted to Life. He was also given 15 years for the second murder, 5 years for the first murder, and 5 years for the attempted murder. |
| Patrick Soultana | 2013 | Life plus 25 years | Netherlands | Serial killer convicted of 2 murders and 1 attempted murder. |
| Ethan Crumbley | 2023 | Life without parole plus 24 years | United States | Sentenced to life without parole plus 24 years for the murders of four students in the 2021 Oxford High School shooting. |
| Esa Åkerlund | 2010 | Life plus 23 years and 6 months | ]] Finland | Serial killer responsible for the Porvoo triple murder. |
| John Leonard Orr | 1998 | Life plus 20 years without parole | United States | Serial arsonist who worked as a fire captain in Glendale, California. Four people died in fires that he caused. |
| Gregory and Travis McMichael | 2021 | Life plus 20 years | United States | Perpetrators of the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery. |
| Junior Kabunda | 2009 | Life plus 25 years | Belgium | Serial killer known as "The Monster of Brussels" |
| Allan Legere | 1990 | Life without parole for 25 years | Canada | Rapist, Arsonist, and Serial killer known as "The Monster of the Miramichi" |
| Garrett Brock Trapnell | 1972 | Life plus 20 years | United States | Con man, bank robber and aircraft hijacker skilled at faking insanity to get off previous charges. Died in prison in 1993. |
| Audrey Marie Hilley | 1983 | Life plus 20 years | United States | Con woman who poisoned her relatives to cash on their life insurance policies. Convicted of murdering her last husband and attempting to murder their daughter. Died in 1987 from hypothermia suffered during an escape attempt. |
| Rémy Roy | 1996 | Life plus 20 years | France | Serial killer known as "The Minitel Killer". |
| Wayne DuMond | 1985 | Life plus 20 years | United States | Ex-Marine who raped 17 year-old cheerleader Ashley Stevens in Arkansas, a third cousin of then governor Bill Clinton. Before trial, DuMond was castrated in his own home and his testicles were subsequently flushed down a toilet by a local sheriff. The sentence was reduced to 39 years in 1992, and DuMond was later paroled in 1999. |
| Erika Sifrit | 2003 | Life plus 20 years | United States | Murdered two tourists from Virginia in Maryland. Her husband and accomplice was sentenced to 38 years in prison. |
| Warren Jeffs | 2011 | Life plus 20 years | United States | Polygamous cult leader found guilty of raping two child brides aged 15 and 12. |
| Abdul Nasir Amer Hamsah | 1996–1997 | Life plus 18 years | Singapore | Found guilty of the kidnapping of two policemen and causing the death of a Japanese tourist during a robbery. Also received 30 strokes of the cane |
| Nizamodeen Hosein | 1970 | Life plus 15 years | United Kingdom | Kidnapper and presumed murderer of Muriel McKay. |
| El Sayyid Nosair | 1994 | Life plus 15 years | United States | Convicted for his part in the New York City landmark bomb plot. Also tried for the assassination of Meir Kahane but acquitted. |
| Omar Abdel-Rahman | 1996 | Life plus 15 years | United States | Known as "the Blind Sheikh." Alleged leader of al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya convicted of seditious conspiracy for his part in the foiled New York City landmark bomb plot. Died at Federal Medical Center, Butner in 2017. |
| Yigal Amir | 1996 | Life plus 14 years | Israel | Murderer of Yitzhak Rabin. |
| Per Kristian Liland | 1970 | Life plus 10 years | Norway | Known substance abuser in Fredrikstad. |
| James Charles Kopp | 2007 | Life plus 10 years | United States | Member of The Lambs of Christ who sniped a physician providing abortions, Barnett Slepian. |
| Tom Menheniott | 1977 | Life plus 5 years | United Kingdom | Physically abused and murdered his eighteen-year-old son, who had learning difficulties, in the Isles of Scilly. The case called into question the way the victim was dealt with by social services and led to questions in the British Parliament and an inquiry. |