Orders have been reportedly issued in approximately 100 cases since introduction in 1983, although some of these prisoners have since died in custody, or had their sentences reduced on appeal.
Thereafter only a judicial body could decide to impose such an order. From the introduction of the whole-life order system in 1983 until an appeal by a prisoner named Anthony Anderson in 2002, a whole-life tariff was set by government ministers. This is a list of prisoners who have received a whole-life order, sometimes called a whole-life tariff, through some mechanism in jurisdictions of the United Kingdom. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'List of prisoners with whole-life orders' – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
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