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, but effectively the same purpose. 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.
Out of the 18 listed prisoners who were sentenced to more than one life imprisonment or to life imprisonment plus additional time, 14 of them were in the United States.
See main article: List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment.
| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry Nichols | 1995 | 161 life sentences without parole |  | 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. | |
| Patrick Wood Crusius | 2023 | 90 life sentences without parole | Mass murderer responsible for killing 23 people and injuring 23 others in the 2019 El Paso shooting on August 3, 2019. | ||
| Michael J. Devlin | 2007 | 74 life sentences plus 2,020 years | | 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 |  | 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 down outside the U.S. | |
| Anderson Lee Aldrich | 2023 | 60 life sentences plus 2,238 years | | The Colorado Springs nightclub shooter.[1] [2] | |
| Brenton Tarrant | 2020 | 52 life sentences without parole, plus 480 years.[3] |  | Perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.[4] | |
| Gary Ridgway | 2005 | 49 life sentences (48 of them without parole) plus 480 years | | 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 | | 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 |  | 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.[5] | |
| James Kevin Pope | 2008 | 40 life sentences plus 60 years | | Received 40 convictions of sexual assault for abusing three teenage girls.[6] | |
| Barry Walker | 2022 | 39 life sentences plus 1,710 years without parole | | 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.[7] | |
| David Carrick | 2023 | 36 life sentences, minimum 30 years plus 239 days | Serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape between 2002 and 2021. | ||
| Billy Joe Godfrey | 2015 | 35 life sentences, minimum 1,050 years | | 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.[8] [9] | |
| Martin Bryant | 1996 | 35 life sentences plus 1,035 years without parole[10] |  | 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.[11] 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. | |
| Nikolas Cruz | 2022 | 34 life sentences (17 without parole plus a minimum of 380 years) | | Perpetrator of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida who pleaded guilty to killing 17 people and injuring 17 others.[12] | |
| Warren Troy Knoop | 2017 | 32 life sentences plus 170 years |  | Found guilty of 870 charges of child rape, exploitation, sexual assault and child pornography.[13] | |
| Bobby Joe Long | 1985 | 28 life sentences plus 104 years | | 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.[14] | |
| Cedric Maake | 2000 | 27 life sentences plus 1,159 years and 3 months | | 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. | |
| Chester Stiles | 2009 | 21 life sentences (with the possibility of parole in 140 years) | | Found guilty of 21 counts of rape against a 3-year-old girl. | |
| Charles Cullen | 2006 | 19 life sentences without parole for 497 years | | Nurse who confessed to have killed 40 patients in the span of 16 years. | |
| David Randitsheni | 2009 | 16 life sentences plus 220 years | | Serial killer who abducted, raped and murdered children. Hanged himself three weeks after conviction. | |
| Jeffrey Dahmer | 1992 | 16 life sentences without parole | | Serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton. | |
| Earl Bradley | 2011 | 14 life sentences without parole plus 165 years | | Pediatrician and child rapist found guilty of many counts of first-degree rape, assault and sexual exploitation of a child. | |
| Leoluca Bagarella | 1995 | 13 life sentences + 106 years, 10 months and solitary confinement for 6 years[15] |  | Member of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Riina's brother-in-law. | |
| Michael Wheatley | 2002 | 13 life sentences plus 65 years without parole for 8 years | Violent robber known as "the Skull-Cracker." Escaped briefly from prison in 2014, but was recaptured.[16] | ||
| James Holmes | 2015 | 12 life sentences without parole plus 3,318 years | Perpetrator of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting. Charged with 12 counts of murder, 140 counts of attempted murder, 1 count of possessing an explosive device, and given 1 sentence enhancement of a violent crime. Sentenced to 12 life sentences without parole, and an additional 3,318 years.[17] | ||
| Joseph James DeAngelo | 2020 | 12 life sentences without parole plus 8 years | Serial killer known as the "Golden State Killer" who murdered 13 people between 1975 and 1986. | ||
| Charles Juan Proctor | 2010 | 11 life sentences plus 433 years | 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.[18] | ||
| Payton S. Gendron | 2023 | 11 concurrent life sentences without parole | Perpetrator of the 2022 Buffalo shooting. Pled guilty to Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, 10 counts of First-degree murder, 10 counts of Second-degree murder as a hate crime, 3 counts of Attempted murder and Criminal possession of a weapon. | ||
| Sayfullo Saipov | 2023 | 10 life without parole sentences plus 260 years | | Perpetrator of the 2017 New York City truck attack.[19] [20] [21] | |
| Dennis Rader | 2005 | 10 life sentences with parole possible after 175 years | | 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.[22] [23] | |
| Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera | 1991 | 10 life sentences plus 45 years without parole | | Chief assassin of the Medellín Cartel, responsible of the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 among others. | |
| Dylann Roof | 2017 | 9 life sentences plus 95 years | | Perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting. Originally sentenced to death in federal court for 9 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, 3 counts of hate crimes with intent to kill, 9 counts of obstruction to exercise religion resulting in death, 3 counts of obstruction to exercise religion using a dangerous weapon. In the South Carolina State Court, Roof pleaded guilty to 9 counts of murder, 3 counts of attempted murder, and 1 count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. Life was recommended for the 9 murders, 30 years for the 3 attempted murders, and 5 years for the possession. Currently incarcerated and awaiting execution at United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana. | |
| Sibusiso Duma | 2009 | 8 life sentences plus 139 years |  | Taxi driver and serial killer who used his vehicle to procure new victims and sometimes kill them | |
| George Wagner IV | 2022 | 8 life sentences plus 121 years | | One of the perpetrators of the Pike County shootings.[24] [25] | |
| One L. Goh | 2017 | 7 life sentences plus 271 years | | Perpetrator of the 2012 Oikos University shooting. | |
| Jeffrey Kollie and Ryan Brandt | 1996 | 7 life sentences plus 265 years | | 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.[26] [27] | |
| Jared Lee Loughner | 2012 | 7 life sentences plus 140 years | | Perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting. | |
| Darrell Brooks | 2022 | 6 life sentences without parole plus 1067.5 years | | Perpetrator of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack. Found guilty on all charges: six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, 61 counts of reckless endangerment, six counts of hit-and-run causing death, two counts of bail jumping and one count of misdemeanor battery.[28] | |
| Rayshun Mullins | 2009 | 6 life sentences plus 1,015 years | | Serial rapist who attacked 9 women between 2003 and 2004. Convicted on 26 counts, which included rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary.[29] | |
| Larry Hoover | 1997 | 6 life sentences plus 200 years | | Co-founder of the street gang, the Gangster Disciples.[30] | |
| Jarrod Warren Ramos | 2021 | 5 life sentences plus 345 years | | The Capital Gazette shooter.[31] | |
| Esteban Santiago-Ruiz | 2018 | 5 life sentences plus 120 years | | The Fort Lauderdale airport shooter.[32] [33] [34] | |
| Nathaniel Veltman | 2024 | 5 life sentences with parole possible after 25 years |  | 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.[35] [36] | |
| Herman See | 2020 | 4 life sentences plus 221 years | | Father convicted on 22 counts of rape against his own daughters. Sentenced along with his wife, Angela Stites (who received 86 years).[37] | |
| Rockne Newell | 2015 | 3 life sentences plus 61 to 122 years | | Perpetrator of the Ross Township Municipal Building shooting. | |
| Hugo Pastén Espinoza | 2022 | 3 life sentences (with the possibility of parole in 120 years) plus 20 years |  | Serial killer responsible for three murders occurred in 2019.[38] | |
| Dudley Wayne Kyzer | 1981 | 2 life sentences plus 10,000 years | | 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.[39] Received 10,000 years for the murder of his wife and 2 life sentences for the other two killings.[40] | |
| James Alex Fields Jr. | 2019 | 2 life sentences plus 419 years | | Perpetrator of the Charlottesville car attack.[41] | |
| Robert Lee Yates | 2000 | 2 life sentences without parole plus 408 years | | 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. | |
| Devon Erickson | 2021 | 1 life sentence without parole plus 1,282 years | | 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.[42] | |
| Bryan Cage | 2021 | 1 life sentence without parole plus 1,248 years | | Convicted in May 2021 of attempted capital murder of a police officer and numerous child pornography, weapon, and drug offenses.[43] | |
| Ariel Castro | 2013 | 1 life sentence plus 1,000 years | | Pled guilty to 937 counts of rape and kidnapping, false imprisonment and aggravated murder. He committed suicide on September 3, 2013. | |
| Tyrone Lavono Williams | 2021 | 480 years to life | | Habitual sex offender who violated the terms by going near children and raping many of them.[44] | |
| Colin Ferguson | 1995 | 315 years and 8 months to Life | | Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting.[45] | |
| Chauncey Price | 2017 | 304 years to Life | | Human trafficker convicted of Violation of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, trafficking a minor for sexual servitude, human trafficking for sexual servitude, attempt to commit pimping of a child, attempt to commit patronizing a prostituted child, pandering of a child, possession of a forged instrument, possession of a forged device, two counts of pimping, and three counts of forgery. According to Colorado Department of Corrections, he received two sentences of 96 years, one sentence of 64 years, and one sentence of 48 years and a life sentence.[46] He will be paroled on February 8, 2172, when he's 183 years old. | |
| James Timothy McCarthy | 2012 | 182 years to life | | 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.[47] | |
| Richard Allen Minsky | 2001 | 146 years to life | | 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.[48] | |
| Peter Scully | 2018 | 1 life sentence plus 129 years |  | Melbourne man convicted for one count of human trafficking and five counts of child sexual abuse. Apprehended in 2015 and initially given a life sentence in 2018, with 129 years eventually being added in 2022 due to a second conviction. He is currently pending trial for several other charges, including production and dissemination of child pornography, torture, and the alleged murder of an 11-year-old girl who died in his captivity in 2012. | |
| Nathan Dunlap | 2020 | 1 life sentence without parole plus 108 years | | Perpetrator of the 1993 Aurora, Colorado, shooting. Originally sentenced to death later commuted to life.[49] [50] |
These sentences differ technically from sentences of life imprisonment in that the designated jail times have specific lengths, although in practical terms they effectively serve the same purpose.
| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamoy Thipyaso | 1989 | 141,078 years |  | 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.[51] However, the Thai law of the time specified that those convicted of fraud could not serve more than twenty years in prison and her mandatory release was 2009, she was paroled after only eight.[52] |
| Othman El Gnaoui | 2007 | 42,924 years |  | Sentenced for their roles in the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[53] 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 El Gnaoui. Both Zougam and Trashorras will be released 17 days before El Gnaoui. Zougam will be 71 years old, El Gnaoui will be 69 years old, and Trashorras would be 67 years old.[54] It is the longest, non-life, officially confirmed sentence ever handed in the European Union. |
| Jamal Zougam | 42,922 years | |||
| Emilio Suárez Trashorras | 34,715 years | |||
| Charles Scott Robinson | 1994 | 30,000 years | | Longest jail term to a single American on multiple counts. Also the longest sentence ever handed in the United States. Robinson was sentenced to 5,000 years for each of the six counts against him for raping a 3-year-old girl in Oklahoma.[55] |
| Allan Wayne McLaurin | 1994 | 20,750 years | | Accomplice of Darron Bennalford Anderson. Upon appeal, his sentence was reduced by 500 years.[56] |
| Pudit Kittithradilok | 2017 | 13,275 years | | Convicted of 2,653 counts of fraud. He admitted running a Ponzi scheme whereby he promised investors artificially high financial returns. About 40,000 people were persuaded to pour more than $160m (£120m) into his companies. Prosecutors told the court that Kittithradilok organised seminars where attendees were encouraged to invest in what he said were businesses linked to property development, beauty, used cars and exports, among other things. They recommended 5 years for each count and an additional 10 years. Totalling, 13,275 years. Due to his confession, his sentence was halved to 6,637 years and six months. Under Thailand law, a convicted fraudster can't serve above 20 years. He will be released in 2037.[57] |
| Darron Bennalford Anderson | 1994 | 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.[58] |
| Faruk Fatih Özer | 2023 | 11,196 years | | Cryptocurrency trader convicted of fraud. Owner of Thodex.[59] |
| Güven Özer | Brothers of Faruk Fatih Özer and Thodex employees, convinced of crimes including fraud associated with the company's collapse.[60] | |||
| Serap Özer |
| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adnan Oktar | 2022 | 8,658 years | | Nation's longest sentence for fraud and sexual abuse commitment according to TRT. Originally sentenced to 1,075 years.[61] On November 17, 2022, he was retried and sentenced to 8,658 years.[62] | |
| Rigoberto Vazquez Hernandez | 2013 | 7,000 years | | Perpetrator of a 2013 triple homicide outside of a nightclub in Dallas where he shot three people point blank.[63] | |
| Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi | 2012 | 7,000 years | | Perpetrator of 2012 shooting outside a southwest Houston nightclub that left three people dead and two others injured, including rapper Trae tha Truth.[64] [65] | |
| Carlos Antonio Carias López | 2011 | 6,060 years | Former soldiers sentenced for their roles in the 1982 Dos Erres massacre.[66] [67] | ||
| Daniel Martínez Martínez | |||||
| Reyes Collin Gualip | |||||
| Manuel Pop | |||||
| Woodrow Holmes Ransonette | 1973 | 5,005 years | | 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.[68] [69] [70] Woodrow Ransonette was released on parole in 1999, and Franklin Ransonette died in prison in 2008.[71] | |
| Franklin Joseph Ransonette | |||||
| Henri Parot | 1990 | 4,797 years | | ETA member found guilty of 26 murders and 166 attempted murders between 1978 and 1990. | |
| Julio Gonzalez | 1991 | 4,350 years | | Perpetrator of the 1990 Happy Land fire in which 87 people died. The amount of years Gonzalez was sentenced to comes from the 174 counts he was found guilty of, each of which carried at least 25 years, and was denied parole in 2015.[72] He died of a heart attack the following year.[73] | |
| James Kevin Pope | 2008 | 4,060 years | | Sexually assaulted three teenage girls over two years. Convicted of 40 counts of sexual assault and 3 counts of sexual performance of a child. Given 40 sentences of 100 years (40 life terms) for sexual assault and 3 sentences of 20 years for child molestation. This is equivalent to 40 life terms plus 60 years.[74] Currently incarcerated at W.J. Estelle Unit.[75] | |
| 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 | | 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 was scheduled for 2094. Shelton committed suicide in prison on September 25, 2018.[76] | |
| Matthew Perry | 2023 | 3,000 years | | Convicted in Greene County, Pennsylvania for raping a young relative on a daily basis for at least 6 years.[77] | |
| Terry Eugene Culley | 1972 | 3,000 years | | Convicted in Dallas of the murder of insurance broker Jean Geron.[78] | |
| Larry D. Kiel | 1992 | 2,501 years | | 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.[79] Paroled on June 16, 2009. | |
| Robert Floyd Angle | 1971 | 2,500 years | | Convicted of the murder of Jack Katz during the robbery of a car parts store in Dallas, Texas.[80] | |
| Francisco Mujika Garmendia | 2003 | 2,442 years | | Perpetrator of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing. | |
| Moses Sithole | 1997 | 2,410 years, minimum 930 years | | 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. | |
| José María Arregi Erostarbe | 2003 | 2,354 years | | 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 |  | Businessman convicted of repeated fraud starting in 2000. Longest sentence ever handed in Mexico.[81] | |
| Billie Glenn Woolsey | 1988 | 2,000 years | | 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.[82] [83] [84] [85] | |
| Jackie Dean Whitlock | |||||
| Thomas Halliday | 2013 | 1,870 years, minimum 935 years | | 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.[86] | |
| Luis Garavito | 1999 | 1,853 years and 9 days |  | Colombian serial killer and rapist convicted of 138 murders. | |
| Lawrence Jacob Stephens | 2001 | 1,823 years | | For his part in a 2001 Virginia home invasion, Stephens was sentenced to 1,823 years and his co-defendant, Darnell Nolan, was sentenced to 35 years. In December 2021, Stephens was granted a conditional pardon by Governor Ralph Northam and his sentence was commuted. He was released in January 2022 after 20 years in prison, though the details of the pardon are currently unclear.[87] [88] [89] [90] [91] | |
| Henri Parot | 1994 | 1,802 years | | For his part in the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing. | |
| Christopher Bennett | 2003 | 1,800 years | | Convicted of killing his stepfather.[92] | |
| Bentura Ruiz Flores | 1971 | 1,800 years | | Convicted of selling $20 worth of heroin to an undercover narcotics agent in Odessa, Texas.[93] [94] | |
| Ronald Yarber | 2017 | 1,652 years[95] | | Convicted of raping a disabled child over the course of twelve years. | |
| Patricia Ayers | 2014 | 1,590 years | | Convicted in Federal Court alongside her co-defendant Matthew Ayers of 53 counts of producing child pornography.[96] | |
| Rene Lopez | 2016 | 1,503 years | | 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.[97] | |
| Antonio Rodriguez | 1970 | 1,500 years | | Convicted in June 1970 of selling three capsules of heroin to an undercover cop in Dallas, Texas.[98] Paroled in 1981.[99] | |
| Wilmer Segovia | 2023 | 1,310 years |  | Member of a faction of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Convicted of 33 murders and 9 attempted murders.[100] | |
| Daryl Lamont Keener | 2012 | 1,266 years | | Convicted of 17 counts of aggravated robbery, 8 counts of robbery, and 1 count of weapons violation. He was given 17 64 year sentences and 8 24 year sentences totalling 1,256 years. Given another 10-year sentence.[101] Sentenced to 6 years in 2003 for the bank robbery before. | |
| Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi | 2007 | 1,243 years | | Perpetrators of the 1995 Vallecas bombing. They were expected to serve a maximum sentence of 30 years. Both to be released in 2037. Goñi will wait until he's nearly 67 years old. Guridi will wait until he's 70 years old. | |
| Ainhoa Múgica Goñi | |||||
| Cristian Alexander Vigil Campos | 2023 | 1,216 years | | Sentenced for committing 27 murders.[102] | |
| James Arthur Guye | 1971 | 1,205 years | | Sentenced for the rape and robbery of a Dallas woman and the murder of another inmate while in prison. Released after 14 years. | |
| Richard Speck | 1972 | 1,200 years, minimum 400 years | | 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. | |
| César Alfredo Romero Chávez | 2022 | 1,090 years | | A leader of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) convicted of 24 counts of aggravated homicide between 2017 and 2018, being sentenced to 20 years for each case.[103] [104] | |
| Igor Portu | 2010 | 1,040 years | | Perpetrators of the 2006 Madrid-Barajas Airport bombing. | |
| Mattin Sarasola | |||||
| Mikel San Sebastián | |||||
| Jhonathan Osmín Gómez Granados | 2023 | 1,008 years | | ||
| Paul Edward Acton Bowen | 2019 | 1,008 years | | 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.[105] | |
| Miguel Krassnoff | 2023 | 1,007 years | | Military officer during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet who was convicted of more than 80 counts of kidnapping, torture and disappearance of persons, which occurred between 1974 and 1976.[106] | |
| Lee Robertson | 1905 | 1,001 years | | A black man convicted in Texas of the attempted assault of Ella Robertson, a white woman.[107] [108] | |
| Larry Joe Knox | 1970 | 1,001 years | | Sentenced in March 1970 for the assault and rape of a 24-year-old telephone company employee.[109] Paroled in 1983. | |
| Allen Brown | 1903 | 1,000 years | | A black man convicted in Texas of attempted assault. Brown was also given an additional 25 years by a different jury for burglary.[110] | |
| Joseph Franklin Sills | 1970 | 1,000 years | | Sentenced in February 1970 for the armed robbery of a dry cleaners in Dallas, which netted $73.10.[111] [112] Although at the time reported to be "probably the longest" sentence ever handed down in Texas,[113] Lee Robertson's 1905 sentence of 1,001 years was longer. Sills' conviction was upheld on appeal.[114] However, he was released in 1983 after serving 13 years. | |
| Harold Eugene Hill | 1970 | 1,000 years | | Sentenced in June 1970 in Dallas for rape. The Assistant District Attorney had asked for a sentence of 5,000 years.[115] Ronald Lewis Jones, an accomplice to the crime, was given a life sentence.[116] Hill was paroled in 1983. | |
| Jerry Lee Duffey | 1970 | 1,000 years | | 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.[117] [118] In 1973, Duffey's sentence was reduced to two life terms.[119] | |
| Herbert Fields | 1970 | 1,000 years | | Sentenced to 1,000 years each in Oklahoma for first degree rape; sentences upheld in 1972.[120] [121] 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."[122] Phillips sentence was commuted to 99 years in 1979 and Fields sentence was commuted to 99 years in 1980 by governor David Boren.[123] Fields was released on March 22, 1989.[124] and Phillips was released on January 10, 2013. | |
| Jimmy Phillips | |||||
| Eddie Ray Byrd | 1971 | 1,000 years | | 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.[125] | |
| Carl Junior Hackathorn | 1971 | 1,000 years | | Sentenced for the 1963 murder of Bobbie Jewell Nuttycomb Smith.[126] 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.[127] [128] Hackathorn was paroled in 1976.[129] | |
| Henry J. Bell | 1972 | 1,000 years | | A 19-year old convicted in Dallas, Texas of the rape of a 12-year-old girl. Prosecutors had asked for 3,000 years.[130] [131] | |
| Solomon James Henry | 1972 | 1,000 years | | A 19-year-old convicted in Houston, Texas of the rape of an 18-year old university student.[132] [133] | |
| William Curtis Griffin | 1973 | 1,000 years | | Convicted of stealing two credit cards and a penny, which occurred while he was paroled from seven life sentences.[134] [135] | |
| Eugene Spencer Jr. | 1973 | 1,000 years | | For the murder of San Antonio policeman Antonio Canales. Spencer was initially assessed a term of 10,000 years,[136] [137] and the New York Times reported him as receiving such a sentence.[138] However, under state law, the judge's assessment was not equivalent to a final sentencing,[139] and the amount of time was lowered to 1,000 years shortly after.[140] | |
| Arthur Franklin | 1984 | 1,000 years | | Serial rapist convicted alongside Frankie Owens, who was sentenced to 500 years.[141] | |
| Charles DeWayne Butler | 1990 | 1,000 years | | Sentenced for the kidnapping, rape, assault, and robbery of a 30-year-old woman in Hugo, Texas.[142] | |
| Tommie Dean Henson | 1991 | 1,000 years | | 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.[143] | |
| Christopher Campano | 1994 | 1,000 years | | Found guilty of first-degree manslaughter of his wife, Caren Campano, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1992.[144] | |
| William Walter Schermerhorn | 1997 | 1,000 years | | Convicted of raping a 3-year-old girl. Given 500 years for lewd molestation and 500 years for producing child pornography.[145] Discharged on August 15, 2022, according to the Oklahoma department of corrections website.[146] | |
| William Wesley Wood | 2005 | 1,000 years | | Convicted of raping an under 12-year-old juvenile girl 10 times. District Attorney Doug Valeska said it is the longest sentence he can remember being handed down during his tenure. Wood had sex with the victim at least 10 times over a three-year period, according to court testimony. The defense argued during the trial that the victim lied and had told the judge at a preliminary hearing that the rapes did not happen. The victim's mother also took the stand to testify against her daughter. They recommended 99 years for each of the number of times the girl was raped, resulting in a sentence of 990 years.[147] But, according to Alabama Department of Corrections, Wood received an additional 10 years for first-degree sexual abuse. This totals 1,000 years. |
| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Rodriguez | 1972 | 999 years | | 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.[148] | |
| Gregory Aaron Gadlin | 2013 | 967 years | | Convicted on 16 counts of robbery, plus being a felon in possession of a weapon and ammunition.[149] | |
| Miguel Ángel Portillo | 2023 | 945 years | | Member of a faction of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Convicted of 22 murders and 4 murder threats. | |
| Shawn Ryan Thomas | 2015 | 915 years | | Convicted on 59 counts of possession of child pornography.[150] 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 | | Convicted of raping nine women.[151] | |
| Joseph Dyre Morse | 1966 | 888 years | | Janitor imprisoned for the rape and murder of a female student at University of Colorado Boulder. He proclaimed his innocence until he confessed to the crime in 1980. Died in prison in 2005.[152] | |
| Sholam Weiss | 2000 | 845 years | | 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. On January 19, 2021, his sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump.[153] | |
| David Hall | 2015 | 825 years | | 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.[154] [155] | |
| Samuel Hemphill | 1970 | 800 years | | A 19-year-old sentenced in Texas for the repeated rape of an 18-year-old girl over the course of several hours.[156] He will be eligible for parole in October 2030. | |
| Domingo Troitiño | 1989 | 794 years | | 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 | | 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, being sentenced to 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 for a total of 775 years. | |
| Juana Barraza | 2008 | 759 years | | 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 | | Found guilty on 50 counts of producing child pornography and 10 counts of aggravated sexual battery.[157] [158] That would be 12 years for 50 counts of producing child pornography, and 15½ years for 10 counts of aggravated sexual battery. | |
| Bruce Betcher | 2007 | 750 years | | Convicted in federal court of 24 counts of producing child pornography, 1 count of receiving child pornography, and 1 count of possession of child pornography. Died in prison in 2013. | |
| Mark Anthony Beecham | 2012 | 744 years | | 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.[159] [160] He will be considered for parole in 2027. | |
| Lonnie James Pebley | 2012 | 736 years | | Sentenced for shooting at police officers with an AK-47 during a standoff.[161] | |
| Apichart Bowornbancharak | 2020 | 723 years | | Originally sentenced to 1,446 years for defrauding the public. They were arrested after numerous complaints. The Laemgate seafood restaurant had last year begun selling various food vouchers that required customers to pay in advance. One such deal offered a seafood meal at 880 baht (£22; $28) for 10 people – far cheaper than their usual prices. Initially, those who bought the vouchers were able to claim their meals at the restaurant but a long waiting list meant an advance booking of up to several months. But by March, the company announced its closure, claiming that it could not get hold of enough seafood to meet the demand. It offered to refund customers who had bought vouchers. About 375 out of 818 customers who complained got their money back. Bowornbancharak and Bowornbancha were arrested, later convicted, and sentenced to 1,446 years, although their sentences were cut in half due to the guilty plea. It was 723 counts of fraud. They would serve no more than 20 years. Their company, Laemgate Infinite, was also fined 1.8m baht, and the co-owners and the company was ordered to refund 2.5m baht in damages to the victims. They will be released in 2040.[162] | |
| Prapassorn Bowornbancha | |||||
| Lisa Marie Lesher | 2019 | 723 years | | Lisa was a mother who raped her daughter and step-daughter, and was found guilty of two counts of first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of sexual torture, one count of second-degree sodomy, and one count of first-degree sexual abuse. Her husband Michael was sentenced to 438 years for his role in the abuse. According to Alabama Department of Corrections, Lisa received 99 years for four counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of first-degree rape and one of sexual torture, 20 years for second-degree sodomy, and 10 years for first-degree sexual abuse.[163] | |
| José Ángel S. S. | 2022 | c. 700 years | | Lawyer and soccer coach nicknamed "the Instagram pedophile", found guilty of sexually abusing minors, recording the abuse, distributing child pornography, and cyber-bullying nearly 100 victims.[164] | |
| Amadeo Hernández Parela | 2023 | 694 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide, and membership of a terrorist organization.[165] | |
| Antonio Izquierdo | 1994 | 684 years | | Perpetrators of the Puerto Hurraco massacre. Died in prison. | |
| Emilio Izquierdo | |||||
| Stephen Saccoccia | 1993 | 660 years | | Convicted of laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel.[166] | |
| Steven Ray Hessler | 2022 | 650 years | | Convicted of a series of sexual assaults in Shelby County.[167] | |
| Franklin Romeo Martínez Hernandez | 2023 | 629 years | | Member of MS-13.[168] | |
| Alán Nelson Lozada Garay | 2012 | 617 years, 6 months and 17 days | | Business associate and criminal accomplice of José Luis González González. | |
| Raven Smith | 2019 | 615 years | | Convicted of sexually abusing five underage girls.[169] | |
| Julio César Santos Medrano | 2023 | 609 years | | Member of MS-13. | |
| Matthew Tyler Miller | 2019 | 600 years | | Convicted of sexually exploiting two young children. Charged with 20 counts of enticing two children under the age of 5 to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual production of such conduct, and given 30 years for each count. A search revealed 102 pornographic images that Miller had produced of the children.[170] | |
| Stephen M. Howells II | 2015 | 580 years | | Convicted in Federal Court alongside his co-defendant Nicole F. Vaisey of six counts of sexual exploitation of children, including the kidnapping and sexual abuse of 2 Amish girls.[171] | |
| Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito | 2003 | 580 years |  | Brazilian serial killer sentenced for homicide, abuse against dead bodies, and concealment of corpses. Suspected of being responsible for the murder of 42 children.[172] | |
| Richard Heeringa | 2012 | 576 years | | Convicted of 17 counts of sexually assaulting a child. Listed as one of the 15 most wanted list of fugitives of the US Marshalls.[173] | |
| Jose Alfredo Rauda | 2019 | 553 years | | Convicted of 12 counts of attempted murder on a peace officer, 19 counts of assault with a firearm on a peace officer, four counts of assault with a firearm, one count of assault on a police animal, shooting at an occupied vehicle and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.[174] | |
| Joseph Baldino | 2014 | 525 years | | 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.[175] | |
| José Ramón Claros Ramos | 2023 | 514 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide and membership of a terrorist organization. | |
| Sipho Thwala | 1999 | 506 years | | Serial killer known as "The Phoenix Strangler" or "Canefield Killer". | |
| Juan Carlos Seresi | 1991 | 505 years | | Convicted of 20 counts of money laundering and 1 count of conspiracy.[176] Juan Carlos Seresi and Vahe Andonian were released in 2020. Nazareth Andonian and Raul Silvio Vivas were released in 2021. | |
| Nazareth Andonian | |||||
| Vahe Andonian | |||||
| Raul Silvio Vivas | |||||
| Frankie Owens | 1984 | 500 years | | Serial rapist convicted alongside Arthur Franklin, who was sentenced to 1,000 years. | |
| Shane Michael Emory | 2014 | 500 years | | 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.[177] |
| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Justin Bailey | 2020 | 496 years | | Convicted of 4 counts of first degree sodomy, 3 counts of second degree sodomy, and one count of attempted rape, total of 8 charges. They recommended 99 years for the 4 first degree sodomies, 30 years for the second degree sodomies, and 40 years for one attempted rape.[178] |
| Charles Hoyt McDonnell | 2017 | 495 years | | 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.[179] |
| Ron Adkins | 1997 | 495 years | | Convicted of 5 counts of burglary. Received 99 years on each count. Currently a preacher and released in May 2015 for displaying good behavior.[180] |
| Edgardo Alfonso Chavarría Castillo | 2023 | 494 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of two counts of aggravated homicide and illicit association.[181] |
| Bernard Henry McGinn | 1999 | 490 years |  | Provisional IRA member specialized in explosives. Released in 2000 as per the Good Friday Agreement. |
| Guillermo Ocampo | 2009 | 480 years | | Convicted of 13 felony counts including four counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and five counts of lewd acts on a child.[182] |
| Brock Franklin | 2017 | 472 years | | The leader of a Colorado sex trafficking ring. Convicted of 2 counts of human trafficking minor, 2 counts of pimping a child, 2 counts of patronizing a prostituted child, 3 counts of soliciting for child prostitution, 2 counts of inducement of child prostitution, 2 counts of pandering of a child, 2 counts of procurement of a child, sexual exploitation of a child-producing a performance contributing to the delinquency of a minor, second degree kidnapping, contributing to the delinquency of a minor-prostitution, contributing to the delinquency of a minor-unlawful use of controlled substance, distribution of a schedule 1 or 2 contributing substance To a minor, human trafficking adult, sexual assault, 5 counts of pimping, and attempt to commit pimping. According to Colorado Department of Corrections, he received three 96 year sentences, seventeen 48 year sentences, two 48 years to life sentences, five 24 year sentences, and two 64 year sentences.[183] He will be paroled on October 21, 2062. He will be 76 years old at that time. |
| Marc P. O'Leary | 2011 | 468 years 6 months | | Serial rapist, shown as "Chris McCarthy" in Netflix limited series "Unbelievable"; 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 | | Serial killer who abducted women and hunted them for sport in the forests of Alaska. Died in 2014, aged 75. |
| Tutuba Mogaba | 2019 | 456 years |  | Also known as Garcia Perez. Pleaded guilty to 114 counts of telemarketing fraud what they call "obtaining money by means of false pretense". Given 4 years for each count.[184] |
| Donald Duane King | 1990 | 450 years | | Convicted on eight felonies related to child molestation.[185] |
| Elias Acevedo Sr. | 2013 | 445 years | | Ex-neighbor of Ariel Castro who pled guilty to all 297 counts against him in order to avoid the death penalty. This included two murders from the 1990s, and the rape of three children.[186] |
| José Antonio Rodríguez Vega | 1991 | 440 years | | Serial killer who raped and murdered at least 16 elderly women in Santander, Spain. Murdered by two other inmates in 2002.[187] |
| Dwayne Whitaker | 2014 | 439 years | | 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.[188] [189] |
| Mark Goudeau | 2011 | 438 years | | 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. |
| Michael William Lesher | 2019 | 438 years | | Michael participated in his wife's rape of 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.[190] |
| Phillip Garrido | 2011 | 431 years | | Perpetrator of the Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard. Plead guilty and was sentenced to 431 years, alongside his wife Nancy Garrido, who received 36 years.[191] |
| Melvin Earl Farmer[192] | 2018 | 423 years | | Man involved in a string of burglaries and attacks on two women across one week in 2017 in Long Beach. Found guilty one count each of forcible rape, sexual battery by restraint, dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, assault to commit a felony during the commission of a first-degree burglary, criminal threats, second-degree robbery and elder abuse. Farmer was further convicted of three counts each of first-degree residential robbery and first-degree burglary with a person present. |
| Kyle Stephen Thompson[193] | 2019 | 420 years | | Convicted in federal court of 18 counts of producing child pornography. Release date is set for May 2, 2375. |
| José Cristóbal Arias Alvarez | 2023 | 417 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, attempted homicide, and membership of a terrorist organization. |
| David Wayne Lummus[194] | 2020 | 412 years and 9 months | | Abused a young boy who called Lummus "Uncle Dave". This included 2 counts of sexual conduct with a minor, child molestation, forgery, fraudulent schemes and artifices, taking identity of another person or entity, and 20 counts of sexual exploit of a minor. According to Arizona Department of Corrections, Lummus received 20 years for 2 counts of sexual conduct of a minor, 17 years for child molestation and 20 counts of sexual exploit of a minor, 10 years for forgery and identity theft, and 15 years for fraudulent schemes and artifices. |
| Bo Michael Dresner | 2024 | 410 years | | Pleaded guilty to 65 counts of child sexual abuse and child pornography charges.[195] |
| Carlos Oswaldo Alvarado | 2016 | 410 years | | Member of 18th Street gang convicted for his role in the Mejicanos massacre.[196] |
| Harvey Carignan | 1975 | 400 years | | Serial killer known as "The Want-Ad Killer". |
| Sidney Holmes | 1988 | 400 years | | Convicted of being the getaway driver in an armed robbery but was exonerated and found factually innocent of all charges in March 2023[197] |
| Charles L. Meach | 1983 | 396 years | | Alaskan serial killer who shot and killed four teenagers in 1982.[198] |
| Felix Mwape | 2020 | 384 years |  | Twenty-three-year-old taxi driver and serial rapist who attacked women, especially those who operated mobile booths, after which he would rob them and in some instances rape them. Convicted of 7 counts of aggravated robbery, rape, indecent assault and unlawful wounding. They recommended 40 years for the seven aggravated robberies, 15 years for the three rapes, 9 months for assault and theft, and 5 years for unlawfully wounding and theft. Totalling 384 years.[199] |
| William Gossett | 2019 | 371 years | | Gossett pleaded guilty in September to 15 assaults that took place between July 4, 2012, and April 10, 2016. In the majority of cases, he would enter the victim's apartment through a window or sliding door, confront his target with a gun or knife, sexually assault the person and then make off with personal items. On two occasions, Gossett attacked his victims just a few feet away from their babies. A task force from the district attorney's special victims unit and the Memphis Police Department's sex crimes unit was assembled to find the perpetrator, and through DNA matching and fingerprints left at the scene they were able to link Gossett to numerous cases. It took multiple years for them to bring the case to court. Investigators said that they had evidence to pursue additional prosecutions but that the victims either could not be located or did not wish to participate in a trial. When Gossett was arrested in 2016, police discovered numerous items belonging to his victims that he kept as trophies, including purses, credit cards, library cards and birth certificates. Other items belonging to the victims were found at area pawnshops. Convicted of 5 counts of aggravated rape, 11 counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, and one count each of identity theft, attempted aggravated rape, theft of property over $1,000, and theft of property under $500. They recommended 50 years for each count of aggravated rape, 10 years for each count of aggravated burglary, 10 years for each count of employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, 6 years for identity theft, 25 years for attempted aggravated rape, 3 years for theft of property over $1,000, and 1 year for the theft under $500. Release date scheduled to be on March 25, 2297.[200] |
| Jerry Whitworth | 1985 | 365 years | | Convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. |
| William Devin Howell | 2017 | 360 years | | Serial killer convicted of murdering seven women. |
| Orville Lynn Majors | 2000 | 360 years | | Licensed practice nurse who was convicted as a serial killer of 6 counts of murder. Though the 7th murder count merged. Died in prison in 2017. |
| Antonio Sanchez | 1999 | 360 years | | 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 | | Sex offender who abused at least 150 women during his tenure as Team Doctor for USA Gymnastics. |
| Kirby Anthoney | 1987 | 357 years | | Murdered his aunt and her two underage daughters, after raping the mother and one of the daughters in Anchorage, Alaska. The victims were the wife and daughters of Anthoney's uncle.[201] |
| Reyna Gomez | 2018 | 353 years | | Convicted of an hours-long shooting rampage in Whittier and La Mirada that left one person dead. The 27-year-old Gomez was convicted of first-degree murder, 14 counts of attempted murder and one count of carjacking, with jurors finding true gang and gun allegations against her.[202] [203] |
| Marvin Alberto Maldonado Arias | 2023 | 335 years | | Member of MS-13 who committed 22 murders.[204] |
| Onur Kopçak | 2013 | 334 years, 7 months and 10 days | | Hacker convicted of several charges related to bank and identity fraud.[205] |
| David Paul Lynch | 2018 | 330 years | | Convicted of traveling to the Philippines from his home in Florida to sexually abuse children. Release date set for March 15, 2298.[206] |
| Norman Schmidt | 2008 | 330 years | | Promised attractive high rates to hundreds of investors, but used the money to cover personal expenses instead of investing it. Found guilty of fraud and money laundering.[207] |
| Marc Patrick O'Leary | 2012 | 327 years and 6 months | | Serial rapist who assaulted five women in two states. Sentenced to 327½ years in prison in Colorado and 68½ years in Washington to be served concurrently to his Colorado sentence.[208] [209] [210] |
| Adrian Anthony | 2015 | 318 years | | 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.[211] |
| Colin Ferguson | 1995 | 315 years and 8 months+ | | Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting |
| Erik Michael Cordova | 2019 | 315 years | | Sex offender convicted of lewd acts on children under 14 years old for molesting his four underaged daughters[212] |
| Jesús María Zabarte Arregui | 1984 | 300 years | | ETA gunman involved in the September 1982 Rentería attack and other shootings |
| Justin Bult | 1983 | 300 years | | Kidnapped and raped a 5-year-old girl[213] He has since been released from prison and is registered as a sex offender.[214] |
| Atdom Patsalis | 2015 | 292 years | | Burglar who burgled about 20 homes from November 2013 to January 2014[215] [216] [217] |
| David Antonio Barrera | 2023 | 284 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of two counts of aggravated homicide and illicit association. |
| Roger Abdelmassih | 2014 | 278 years | | Former physician, an expert on human reproduction, and one of the pioneers of in-vitro fertilization in Brazil who was accused of sexually abusing sedated patients. He was convicted of 52 counts of rape and 39 counts of attempted sexual abuse and he was given 278 years. Brazilian law forbids imprisonment to exceed 30 years. |
| Cándido Alcides Martínez Méndez | 2023 | 274 years | | Member of MS-13, convicted of 3 counts of aggravated homicide, 2 counts of deprivation of liberty, 2 counts of aggravated robbery, and membership of a terrorist organization[218] |
| Shawn Corbally | 2013 | 270 years | | Convicted of raping a woman[219] |
| Andrew Franklin Kowalczyk | 2019 | 270 years | | Convicted of 9 counts of producing child pornography[220] |
| Francisco de Assis Pereira | 1998 | 268 years | | Serial killer known as "The Park Maniac" who raped and murdered 11 women in São Paulo |
| Leivy de Jesús Granados Benavidez | 2023 | 268 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated extortion and illicit association.[221] |
| Daniel Holtzclaw | 2016 | 263 years | | Police officer sentenced for his role in abusing women while on patrol duty.[222] |
| Shawn Springler | 1996 | 261 years | | Accomplice of Paul Jensen. Eligible for parole in 33 years.[223] |
| Thomas Goodman | 2019 | 260 years | | Rhode Island man sentenced to 260 years in prison for producing child pornography involving multiple prepubescent children.[224] |
| Christopher Thomas | 1985 | 250 years | | Perpetrator of the Palm Sunday massacre released in 2018.[225] |
| Michael Pugh | 2015 | 248 years | | Sentenced for their roles in a 2013 home invasion in Indiana, alongside Adrian Anthony, who received 318 years |
| Demetre Brown | ||||
| Alexander Dupree | ||||
| José Keviz Portillo | 2023 | 245 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of conspiracy to commit homicide, aggravated extortion and membership of a terrorist organization.[226] |
| Patricio Medina | 2018 | 244 years | | Raped his then 38-day-old daughter while in a meth-induced haze. Convicted of one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 6, two counts of injury to a child and two counts of endangering a child. Given 80 years for one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 6 and two counts of injury to a child, and 2 years for two counts of endangering a child.[227] |
| Mark Santa Anna | 2010 | 243 years and 8 months | | 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.[228] |
| Bobby Bostic | 1997 | 241 years | | Sentenced for two armed robberies and a brief kidnapping on the same day. Bostic was 16 years old at the time, and had the longest juvenile sentence in Missouri for non-homicide offences.[229] Bostic was released on parole in November 2022.[230] |
| Jorge Iniestra Salas | 2015 | 241 years | | Kept two teenage girls captive as sex slaves for five years, ultimately murdering one of them.[231] |
| Eyad Ismoil | 1995 | 240 years | | Sentenced for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[232] [233] |
| César Armando Librado Legorreta | 2012 | 240 years | | Serial killer known as El Coqueta, who was convicted of the rape and murder of six women in the Greater Mexico City area. |
| Jason Kopp | 2016 | 235 years | | Convicted of 22 Child Pornography related charges.[234] |
| Byran Uyesugi | 2000 | 235 years | | Perpetrator of the 1999 Honolulu shootings. |
| Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho | 1999 | 234 years | | 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.[235] |
| Heriberto Seda | 1998 | 232 years | | Copycat of the Zodiac Killer. |
| José Antonio Posada Romero | 2023 | 228 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated extortion and membership of a terrorist organization.[236] |
| Brian Smith | 2024 | 226 years | | Found guilty of First degree murder, Second-degree murder, Sexual assault, and Tampering with evidence in relation to the murders of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.[237] |
| Tandy Tomlin | 2021 | 225 years | | 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.[238] |
| David Parker Ray | 2001 | 224 years | | 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. |
| Óscar Enrique Carballo | 2023 | 223 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of conspiracy to commit homicide, aggravated extortion and membership of a terrorist organization. |
| Theresa Halsa | 1972 | 220 years |  | Hijacker of Sabena Flight 571. |
| Erick Geovanny Martínez Herrera | 2023 | 220 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, homicide, restriction of liberty, and illicit association.[239] |
| Ali F. Elmezayen | 2019 | 212 years | | 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.[240] |
| Tarkan Yavaş | 2018 | 211 years | | Executive in the organization of Adnan Oktar, who received 1,075 years for various crimes. |
| Randall Tilton | 2021 | 210 years | | Convicted of sexually abusing 7 young girls and producing child pornography.[241] |
| Oscar Pereira | 2023 | 210 years | | Member of MS-13.[242] |
| Kristofer Hans | 1988 | 206 years | | School Shooter who at age 14 shot and killed his substitute teacher and injured three others at Fergus County High School on December 4, 1986.[243] [244] [245] [246] Paroled in 2015.[247] |
| José Nery Herrera Bonifacio | 2023 | 205 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, restriction of liberty, and illicit association. |
| Joel Rifkin | 1994 | 203 years | | Serial killer known as "Joel the Ripper." |
| Hélio José Muniz Filho | 1997 | 201 years | | Vigilante who admitted to killing 60 to 65 people. |
| Howard Christensen | 1937 | 200 years | | 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. |
| José Javier Zabaleta Elosegi | 1988 | 200 years | | Perpetrator of the 1980 Zarautz attack. |
| Velupillai Prabhakaran | 2002 | 200 years |  | 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.[248] [249] Was killed in action against the Sri Lankan army in 2009. |
| Maksim Gelman | 2012 | 200 years | | Spree killer who stabbed and killed four people and injured five more.[250] |
| Morton Berger | 2003 | 200 years | | 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. |
| Sean Rikers | 2012 | 200 years | | Wisconsin man convicted of 16 counts of physical child abuse, sexual assault against a child, and reckless endangerment, originally served 12 years in a federal prison for detonating pimp bombs in Utah. After his release, he terrorized his family including strangulation. Riker's had a notable outburst on video in which he threatened the judge and the prosecution team. He did not appear on his court date.[251] |
| Mikeal Shane Pruett | 2015 | 200 years, minimum 50 years | | Raped and impregnated his own granddaughter.[252] |
| Jared Chance | 2019 | 200 years | | Convicted of the second-degree murder and mutilation of Ashley Young in November 2018.[253] |
| Jeffrey Esposito | 2020 | 200 years | | Convicted of 20 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of child pornography.[254] |
| Paul Jensen | 2016 | 200 years | | Shot and killed a taxi driver in Fort Pierre. Originally sentenced to Life without parole for that crime in 1996.[255] |
| Simon Nelson | 1978 | 200 years | | Convicted of murdering his six children, aged 13, 11, 8, 7, 5, and 3. He used a knife and rubber mallet to kill the children as they slept on January 7, 1978, in Rockford, Illinois. He then drove to Milwaukee to beat his wife, who was seeking a divorce at the time. |
| Evan Ramsey | 1998 | 198 years | | Perpetrator of the 1997 Bethel Regional High School shooting. Found 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.[256] |
| Richard Cottingham | 1981 | 197 years, minimum 173 years | | Serial killer who dismembered women in New York. Nicknamed "the Torso Killer". |
| Clifton Bloomfield | 2008 | 195 years | | Serial killer convicted of five murders in New Mexico.[257] |
| Sal Magluta | 2003 | 195 years | | Convicted of money laundering and obstruction of justice. Initially sentenced to 205 years, which was reduced to 195 years on appeal.[258] |
| Felipe Antonio Alfaro Lara | 2023 | 195 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, homicide, restriction of liberty, and illicit association. |
| Francisco Javier Aguilar Ramírez | 2023 | 195 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide and illicit association. |
| Carlos García Juliá | 1979 | 193 years | | 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.[259] |
| José Fernández Cerrá | ||||
| José Jaime Hernández Cañas | 2023 | 192 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide and membership of a terrorist organization. |
| Perry Armstrong[260] | 2019 | 192 years | | Someone found the girl walking on Northern Avenue after she escaped a home in 2017. She reportedly told police Armstrong smashed her fingers with a hammer, hit her legs with a baseball bat, had a dog attack her and made her sleep on the floor. The description of abuse in the arrest papers also includes starving her and beatings. Perry was convicted of five counts of child abuse causing serious bodily injury, nine counts of misdemeanor child abuse and multiple assault charges. |
| Diana Franklin | 2015 | 190 years | | Convicted of physically abusing her adopted daughter.[261] |
| Barry Loukaitis | 1996 | 189 years | | Perpetrator of the Frontier Middle School shooting. Convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, one count of first-degree attempted murder, and 16 counts of aggravated kidnapping. He was initially sentenced to serve two life sentences and an additional 205 years without the possibility of parole. In 2017, he was resentenced to 189 years.[262] |
| Oktar Babuna | 2018 | 186 years | | Executive in the organization of Adnan Oktar, who received 1,075 years for various crimes. |
| Francisco Antonio García López | 1968 | 185 years |  | 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 | | Serial killer known as "The Cassino Maniac". |
| Noé Benigno Castillo Mejía | 2023 | 184 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of two counts of aggravated homicide and illicit association. |
| Silvia Meraz | 2012 | 180 years | | Serial killer and sect leader who was convicted of three murders which took place between 2009 and 2012 in Nacozari, Sonora. Three people were murdered as human sacrifices to Santa Muerte. |
| Greg Stephen | 2019 | 180 years | | 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.[263] |
| Robert Kenneth Stewart | 2011 | 179 years and 4 months | | Perpetrator of the Carthage nursing home shooting.[264] |
| Fernando Silva Sande | 2011 | 178 years | | 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. |
| Gary Settle | 1993 | 177 years | | Convicted of robbing ten banks in Florida.[265] |
| Valentin Vivero[266] | 2017 | 176 years and 8 months to Life | | Member of the Triple Six Gangsters convicted of Murder in the First Degree, four counts of Premeditated Attempted Murder and Shooting at an Occupied Dwelling in March. |
| René Medrano | 2023 | 174 years | | Member of MS-13. |
| Francisco Álvarez | 2023 | 174 years | | Member of MS-13. |
| Justin Johnson | 2022 | 170 years | | Pled guilty to four counts of production of child sexual abuse material, one count of production and attempted production of child sexual abuse material, and one count of possession of child sex abuse material.[267] |
| Ronald Sanford | 1989 | 170 years | | Sentenced at the age of 15 for the crimes he has committed at age 13. Convicted of 2 counts of murder, robbery, and burglary. They recommended 50 years for murder and robbery and 20 years for burglary. The other count of robbery, 2 counts of confinement, and 2 counts of felony murder dropped.[268] |
| Fanuel Makamu | 2000 | 165 years | | Robber, rapist, and serial killer known as "The Mpumalanga Serial Rapist". |
| Brett Byers | 2000 | 165 years | | University of Montana student who shot two of his roommates to death in May 1990.[269] |
| Leonard Earl Bales | 2017 | 164 years | | Sentenced for sexually assaulting and attempting to kill a woman in the Antelope Valley in 2015.[270] |
| Quartavious Davis | 2014 | 162 years | | Davis and 5 others violated the right to bear arms with an array of firearms, terrorized a range of South Florida businesses to include a pizzeria, gas station, drugstore, auto parts store, barber shop, a fast food restaurant, and a jewelry store. Convicted of 16 out of 17 charges to include racketeering, conspiracy to interfere with the interstate commerce under Hobbs Act through robbery, 7 counts of armed interfering with the interstate commerce under Hobbs Act through robbery, and 7 counts of possession of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. He received 6 sentences of 25 years, 1 sentence of 7 years and 5 years. |
| Jovin Eliseo Sosa Trejos | 2023 | 162 years | | Member of MS-13, convicted of 3 counts of aggravated homicide and membership of a terrorist organization |
| Keith O. Wood | 2008 | 160 years | | Home invader who raped five women in Pittsburgh between 2000 and 2001. |
| Khalil Wheeler-Weaver | 2019 | 160 years | | Orange resident and serial killer linked to the murders of Robin Daphne Michele West, Sarah Butler, and Joanne Browne. |
| Ryan Stone | 2015 | 160 years | | Carjacked several people, nearly killing a Colorado State Trooper while speeding down a highway. Sentenced for attempted murder among other charges.[271] According to Colorado Department of Corrections, he received 2 sentences of 12 years, 1 sentence of 64 years, 7 sentences of 24 years, 1 sentence of 48 years, 2 sentences of 1 year, and 4 sentences of 90 days. |
| Darnell Lewis | 1996 | 160 years | | [272] |
| José Alexander Ramírez | 2023 | 154 years | | Member of MS-13. |
| Mauricio Adonay Campos | 2023 | 154 years | | Member of MS-13. |
| Oscar Lopez | 2018 | 151 years to life | | Sentenced for his role in the 2014 gang-related death of a 20-year-old Montclair man.[273] |
| Nathaniel White | 1993 | 150 years | | Serial killer who beat and stabbed six women to death while he was on parole for another crime. |
| Bernard Madoff | 2009 | 150 years | | Admitted defrauding thousands of investors in a Ponzi scheme which had been running since the early 1990s.[274] Died in prison in 2021. |
| Scott Kologi | 2022 | 150 years | | Shot and killed four family members On New Year's Eve 2017.[275] |
| Rafael Angel Rondon | 2007 | 149 years | | Convicted of robbing six banks in Florida.[276] |
| Carlos Alberto Santos Lobo | 2023 | 147 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, attempted homicide, and illicit association.[277] |
| Ronald Eduardo García Martínez | 2023 | 145 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide, attempted homicide, and illicit association. |
| Alfredo Galán | 2005 | 142 years and 3 months | | 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. |
| Darnell Braud | 2020 | 140 years | | Pled guilty to two counts of manslaughter which resulted in a sentence of 115 years and a sentence of 25 years to be served consecutively.[278] |
| Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode | 1997 | 140 years | | Serial killer known as "The Donnybrook Serial Killer". |
| Robert George Irwin | 1938 | 139 years | | Artist-sculptor who killed three people over Easter weekend in 1937. Died in 1975. |
| Agustín de Jesús Rivas López | 2023 | 138 years | | Gang member who killed three people between 2020 and 2021 and stole over US$20,000.[279] |
| Velaphi Ndlangamandla | 1998 | 137 years | | Serial killer known as "The Saloon killer". After stealing a .22 Anschütz rifle, colloquially called a "saloon", Ndlangamandla went on a five-month rampage that left 19 people dead. A police task team, headed by Police Superintendent Izak van Zyl, arrested Ndlangamandla at the Phoswa village near Piet Retief on September 10, 1998. He was convicted of 19 counts of murder, 9 counts of attempted murder, 6 counts of robbery, one count of attempted robbery, 5 counts of housebreaking, one count of indecent assault, one count of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and one count of pointing a firearm. |
| Gonzalo Rodríguez Cordero | 1995 | 136 years | | Perpetrators of the Mutxamel bombing. |
| José Gabriel Zabala Erasun | ||||
| Wilfredo Portillo Gutiérrez | 2023 | 135 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of homicide, aggravated extortion, and membership of a terrorist organization. |
| Dwight York | 2004 | 135 years | | Leader of the Nuwaubian Nation. Convicted of child molestation and financial crimes.[280] [281] |
| Ismael Alfredo Flores | 2023 | 134 years | | Member of MS-13. |
| Martín Beltrán Bernal | 2023 | 134 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of 4 counts of murder and illicit association.[282] |
| Nathaniel Bar-Jonah | 1999 | 130 years without parole | | 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. |
| Cristina Soledad Sánchez Esquivel | 2010 | 130 years | | Serial killer known as La Matataxistas. |
| Oswaldo Alberto Armero Hernández | 2023 | 130 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of conspiracy to commit homicide, aggravated extortion, and membership of a terrorist organization.[283] |
| Pedro Rodrigues Filho | 2003 | 128 years | | 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 Dilmé | 2014 | 127 years and 6 months | | Nursing home watchman who poisoned 11 elderly patients between 2009 and 2010. |
| José Gilberto Romero Guzmán | 2023 | 127 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of homicide, aggravated extortion, and membership of a terrorist organization. |
| Emeregildo Roman | 2007 | 126 years | | Convicted of robbing six banks in Florida.[284] |
| Colton Simpson | 2007 | 126 years | | Member of the Crips convicted of robbery, burglary and grand theft, sentenced under California's three-strikes law. Parole date scheduled in 2026. |
| Juan Carlos Hernández Reyes | 2023 | 125 years | | Member of MS-13 convicted of 2 homicides and illicit association.[285] |
| Luis Oscar Jiménez Herrera | 2018 | 123 years | | Serial killer known as "The Tinaco Killer". |
| Marco Antonio Sián Chávez | 2014 | 122 years | Member of Mara Salvatrucha. Eighty-seven other gang members were given shorter sentences in the same trial.[286] | |
| Andrés Ulises Castillo Villarreal | 2017 | 120 years | | Serial killer known as "The Chihuahua Ripper" and "The Urban Development Ripper". |
| Lawrence Davis | 2018 | 120 years | | Lawrence Davis sexually abused 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 2½ years on a pornography charge. |
| Keith Raniere | 2020 | 120 years | | Leader of NXIVM sex cult. |
| Banita Jacks | 2009 | 120 years | | Murdered her 4 daughters.[287] |
| William Eric Davis | 1990 | 120 years | | William Eric Davis was charged with the murder of four persons in a head-on collision. Davis ran over 4 people with his vehicle and charged with 4 counts of felony murder. The cases were consolidated for trial, the jury found Davis guilty on all 4 counts as charged in the indictments, and the prosecutors recommended 30 years for each person killed in a collision.[288] According to Alabama Department of Corrections, he received 4 consecutive 30 year sentences and his release date is for November 11, 2110. |
| Oscar Omar Hernández Santos | 2023 | 120 years | | Members of MS-13 convicted of aggravated homicide.[289] |
| Félix Adín Valladares Meléndez | ||||
| Ulises Daniel Martínez Meléndez | ||||
| José Ovidio Hernández Santos |
| Name | Sentence start | Sentence term | Country | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriel March Granados | 1972 | 384,912 years | | 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. The actual sentence imposed was 14 years and 2 months in prison and a fine of 9,000 pesetas.[290] [291] | |
| Anders Behring Breivik | 2012 | 1,617 years |  | Breivik, a convicted domestic terrorist who committed the 2011 Norway attacks. He was found guilty of mass murder of 77 people. This could extend 21 years on each person murdered, totalling 1,617 years. However, the sentence was 21 years instead with the minimum of 10 years. Although several European countries still authorize life sentences without the possibility of parole, many do not.[292] |