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Life Sentences Spike in Recent Years – Especially in Utah
Loaded on Feb. 4, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2015, page 26
Life Sentences Spike in Recent Years – Especially in Utah
A recent research study and news reports have revealed an increase in the number of prisoners across the nation – and particularly in Utah – sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
In a report released in ...
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