By Staff WriterLast Updated March 27, 2020. Justin Horrocks/E+/Getty Images. In legal terms, “25 to life” means a prisoner is sentenced to a life term in prison but can become eligible for parole after serving 25 years.

First-degree murder generally involves a willful killing that was premeditated or that the perpetrator committed after lying in wait. Some states may not recognize aggravated murder as a separate crime. In any case, judges may consider both aggravating and mitigating factors when determining what sentence to hand down.

By offense type, the median time served was 13.4 years for murder, 2.2 years for violent crimes excluding murder, 17 months for drug trafcking, and 10 months for drug possession.

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Death may not come as quickly as a planned execution, but it’s still a death sentence all the same. For that reason alone, myself, and many others feel that a LWOP sentence is worse than the death penalty. “Death by incarceration” is just as heinous as death by lethal injection, for a number of other reasons.

Life without parole is often issued for serious offenses such as those involving:

• Violent crimes;
• Crimes involving firearms or other weapons;
• Drug crimes, especially those involving distribution or manufacturing;
• Theft crimes, especially where the value stolen is for a worth a high amount; and/or.

Capital punishment is a legal penalty under the United States federal government criminal justice system. It can be imposed for treason, espionage, murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempted murder of a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases.