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    McLaurin was an accomplice to Darron Bennalford Anderson, who received “the largest prison sentence awarded as a result of an appeal.” Anderson, also from Oklahoma, was convicted in 1994 of crimes ranging from raping an elderly woman to theft, robbery and kidnapping and was originally sentenced to 2,200 years. He appealed, won a new trial, and was convicted again, only this time the jury sentenced Anderson to 11,250 years and added 6,300 to his sentence. He appealed again in 1997 and received a parole date of 12,744.

    McLaurin’s original sentence of 21,250 years was reduced by 500 years on appeal.

    – Lionel Tate

    Lionel Alexander Tate.

    Lionel was the youngest US citizen to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In January 2001, at the age of just thirteen, he was found guilty of murdering a six-year-old girl in Florida. According to him, they fought and he had her head in a headlock as he pinned her against a table and then stomped on it, tearing her liver.

    René López

    Length: 1,503 years Year of imprisonment: 2017 Location: USA Type of crime: Child abuse

    Source: wikimedia.org

    Longest prison sentence imposed to date Punishment

    In the United States, life imprisonment means a person who has been imprisoned for fifteen years and is eligible for parole. Now let’s look at the lists of the longest prison sentences served around the world.

    Prisoners sentenced to between 120 and 500 years

    Name Start of sentence Term Country Description Bernard Henry McGinn 1999 Age 490 UK Provisional member of the IRA specializing in explosives. Declassified in 2000 as part of the Good Friday Agreement. Guillermo Ocampo 2009 480 years United States Convicted of 13 felonies, including four counts of aggravated sexual assault against a child and five acts of indecency against a child. Marc P O’Leary 2011 468 years 6 months Serial rapist portrayed as “Chris McCarthy” in the Netflix limited series “Unbelievable”; He is incorrectly listed on the show as sentenced to 327.5 years in prison. According to Colorado Department of Corrections records, he received three 48-year sentences to life in prison, one 32-year sentence to life in prison, eight 32-year sentences, one 12-year sentence, two 4-year sentences, and five 3-year sentences and 18 months imprisonment, all related to case 11CR430. He will be paroled in December 2283. *Cannot link directly to CDCC website, search his name or DOC#156342 Robert Hansen 1983 461 yrs Serial killer who kidnapped women and hunted them for sport in the Alaskan wilderness. He died in 2014 at the age of 75. José Antonio Rodríguez Vega 1991 440 years old Spain Serial killer who raped and murdered at least 16 elderly women in Santander, Spain. Murdered by two other inmates in 2002. Dwayne Whitaker 2014 Age 439 United States Convicted in San Francisco of two counts of first-degree robbery, one first-degree robbery, one attempted robbery, two counts of assault and elder abuse. Mark Goudeau 2011 438 year old serial killer and rapist known as the Baseline Killer, active in Phoenix, Arizona. Sentenced to 438 years in prison and nine death sentences for murder on sexual charges alone. Robert Lee Yates 2000 408 years Serial killer who pleaded guilty to 13 murders to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to two death sentences the following year for additional murders, but these will not be carried out until the previous sentence has been served. Harvey Carignan 1975 400 years serial killer known as “The Want-Ad Killer”. Antonio Sánchez 1999 360 years old Philippines Former Mayor of Calauan who directed the rape and murder of Eileen Sarmenta and the murder of her boyfriend Allan Gomez. Larry Nassar 2018 360 years old, at least 131 years old United States Sex offender who abused at least 150 women during his tenure as team doctor for the US gymnastics team Kirby Anthoney 1987 357 years old Raped and murdered a mother and her two young daughters in Anchorage, Alaska . The victims were relatives of Anthony. Onur Kopçak 2013 334 years, 7 months and 10 days Turkey Hacker convicted on various charges related to banking and identity fraud. Norman Schmidt 2008 330 years United States Promised high attractive interest rates to hundreds of investors, but used the money to cover personal expenses instead of investing it. Found guilty of fraud and money laundering. Colin Ferguson 1995 315 years and more than 8 months Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting. Jesús María Zabarte Arregui 1984 300 years Spain ETA gunman involved in the September 1982 Rentería attack and other shootings. Francisco de Assis Pereira 1998 268 years old Brazil Serial killer known as “El Maníaco del Parque” who raped and murdered 11 women in São Paulo. Daniel Holtzclaw 2016 263 years US police officer convicted of his role in abusing women while on patrol. Thomas Goodman 2019 260 years Rhode Island man sentenced in United States to 260 years in prison for producing child pornography involving several preadolescent boys. Jorge Iniestra Salas 2015 241 years old Mexico Convicted of keeping a woman and 2 girls in prison for 5 years. Bobby Bostic 1997 241 United States Convicted of two armed robberies and a brief kidnapping on the same day. Bostic was 16 at the time and has the longest juvenile sentence in Missouri for non-homicide. Eyad Ismoil 1995 240 years United States Convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho 1999 234 years Brazil Convicted for his role in the outbreak of violence in São Paulo in 2006 and leadership of the Primeiro Comando da Capital, a of the largest powerful criminal organizations in Brazil. Heriberto Seda 1998 232 years old USA Zodiac Killer impersonator. David Parker Ray 2001 Age 224 Serial hijacker, 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 RV, he released all victims who proved beyond a reasonable doubt that they were his after he erased their memory of the drug attacks. He was also a suspected serial killer with as many as 60 victims. He died in prison in 2002. Joel Rifkin 1994 203 years United States Serial killer known as “Joel the Ripper”. Mikeal Shane Pruett 2015 200 years old, at least 50 years old Raped and impregnated his own granddaughter. Morton Berger 2003 200 years Convicted in 2003 of 20 counts of dangerous second-degree felonies against children in Arizona for possession of 20 pornographic images of children. He was sentenced to 10 years each, served consecutively. The Arizona Supreme Court upheld his verdict, and the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. The sentence also prohibits probation, pardon or executive pardon. Velupillai Prabhakaran 2002 200 years Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, convicted in absentia of planning truck bombing of Central Bank of Sri Lanka which killed 91 and injured 300. Died in 2009 fighting against the Sri Lanka Army. Howard Christensen 1937 200 years United States Sentenced to life without parole for the 1937 murder of a teacher 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 and died in 2003 at the age of 82. Richard Cottingham 1981 197 years old, at least 173 years old Serial killer who dismembered women in New York. Nicknamed “torso killer” Carlos García Juliá 1979 193 years old Spain Main perpetrator of the Atocha massacre. García Juliá was granted parole in 1991, which he quickly broke and fled to South America. He was arrested in Bolivia in 1996 for drug trafficking. In 2000 he was sentenced in absentia in Spain to a further 3,855 days in prison for violating the conditions of probation. Fernández Cerrá was paroled in 1992. José Fernández Cerrá Age 193 Gregory Williams 2017 Age 190, $4,750,000 fine United States Convicted of selling 19 unregistered Drop In Auto Sears (DIAS) capable of converting semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons. Sentenced to 10 years (consecutive) and a $250,000 fine for each term. Diana Franklin 2015 190 years Convicted of physically abusing her adopted daughter. Francisco Antonio García López 1968 185 years old Puerto Rico Known as “Toño Bicicleta”. Original sentence for murdering his wife with a machete. His numerous escapes and subsequent murders made his life a part of Puerto Rican folklore. Killed in 1995 while resisting arrest. James Timothy McCarthy 2012 182+ United States Convicted of numerous counts of child sexual abuse including the continued sexual abuse of a child. Sentenced to 32 years in prison followed by 150 years to life imprisonment. Fernando Silva Sande 2011 178 years Spain Member of GRAPO convicted of four murders in three trials including the murder of two security guards during an armored car robbery in Vigo in 2000. Keith O. Wood 2008 160 years United States intruder who raped five women in Pittsburgh between 2000 and 2001. Nathaniel White 1993 150 years Serial killer who beat to death and stabbed six women to death while on parole for another crime. Bernard Madoff 2009 150 years Admitted to defrauding thousands of investors in a Ponzi scheme that ran since the early 1990s Richard Allen Minsky 2001 146 years Used car salesman charged with more than 80 counts including rape, assault, assault, extortion, grand larceny , theft, lewd and lewd behavior, oral copulation, sexual assault, sexual assault, sodomy and prison break. He also committed fraud in California, Florida (where he was arrested after appearing on America’s Most Wanted), Georgia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Alfredo Galán 2005 142 years and 3 months Spain Serial killer who murdered six people and injured three in Madrid. Dubbed “the Deck of Cards Killer” because he left a playing card as his signature in every scene. Robert George Irwin 1938 139 years old United States Artist and sculptor who murdered three people during Holy Week 1937. He died in 1975. Gonzalo Rodríguez Cordero 1995 136 years old Spain Perpetrator of the Mutxamel attack. José Gabriel Zabala Erasun 136 years old Dwight York 2004 135 years old United States Leader of the Nuwaubian Nation. Convicted of child molestation and financial crimes. Nathaniel Bar-Jonah 130 years without parole Fast cook found guilty in 1999 of kidnapping, raping and torturing three children but alleged to have committed many other crimes since the 1970s During a search of his home, police found the bone of a human boy who African American hair in a meat grinder, and a handwritten cookbook of cannibalistic recipes like “Toddler Pot Pie,” “French Fried Boy,” and “Roast Boy.” . He died in prison in 2008. Pedro Rodrigues Filho 2003 128 years Brazil Vigilante who claims to have killed 100 criminals including his own father and 43 other prisoners. Other sentences brought his total sentence to 400 years, but he was released in 2007 for serving the maximum 30-year sentence allowed under Brazilian law. Joan Vila 2014 127 years and 6 months Spain Care home caretaker who poisoned 11 elderly patients between 2009 and 2010. Colton Simpson 2007 126 years United States Crips member convicted of robbery, robbery and grand larceny convicted under California’s three strikes statute. Marco Antonio Sián Chávez 2014 122 years Guatemala Member of the Mara Salvatrucha. Another 87 gang members were sentenced to shorter sentences in the same trial.

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