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A Florida man believed to be America’s longest serving inmate for nonviolent marijuana crimes has been released from prison after serving 31 years of his 90-year sentence. Richard DeLisi on ...
The longest serving prisoner in Washington state, a U.S. Air Force airman originally sentenced to death for the murders of three gas station attendants during an armed robbery spree with another colleague. His sentence was stayed four days before his scheduled execution on July 11, 1969, then changed to three life sentences after a retrial in 1971.
[70] [71] Although at the time reported to be "probably the longest" sentence ever handed down in Texas, [72] Lee Robertson's 1905 sentence of 1,001 years was longer. Sills' conviction was upheld on appeal. [73] However, he was released in 1983 after serving 13 years. [57] Harold Eugene Hill 1970 1,000 years United States
George "Cowboy" Martorano (born 1950) was the longest-serving, first-time, non-violent offender in the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the time of his release. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1984 on drug charges. [1] Martorano was released in October 2015 after serving over 32 years.
Britain's longest serving prisoner, who spent 55 years in prison until his death. Straffen was convicted of murdering two pre-teen girls in July 1951. The following year, he escaped for a four-hour period and was convicted of murdering another girl during this short spell at large, although he long proclaimed his innocence.
He is Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner as part of nearly 50 years of incarceration in the state. Thomas Creech, seen here in a photo provided by opponents to his execution, was ...
An Idaho judge issued a death warrant on Thursday for the state's longest-serving death row inmate, scheduling his execution for next month. Thomas Creech was convicted of killing two people in ...
Paul Geidel Jr. (April 21, 1894 – May 1, 1987) was the longest-serving prison inmate in the United States whose sentence ended with his parole, a fact that earned him a place in Guinness World Records. [1] He is now the 2nd longest-serving inmate next to Francis Clifford Smith who survived 70 years, 31 days.