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life imprisonment

imprisonment intended to last for life
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life imprisonment
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life imprisonment

Summary

life imprisonment ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,630 views/month, #382 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • life imprisonment is a type of imprisonment[2].
  • life imprisonment is a type of sentence[3].
  • life imprisonment is a type of punishment[4].
  • life imprisonment's Commons category is recorded as Life imprisonment[5].
  • life imprisonment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Life imprisonment[6].
  • life imprisonment's partially coincident with is recorded as life imprisonment[7].
  • life imprisonment's different from is recorded as indefinite imprisonment[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include imprisonment[2], sentence[3], and punishment[4].

Why It Matters

life imprisonment ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,630 views/month, #382 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). life imprisonment. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/life-imprisonment
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  1. 11h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → imprisonment, sentence, punishment
    Topic's main category → Category:Life imprisonment
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → livsvarig_fengsel
    Different from → indefinite imprisonment
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20913, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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