Most life sentences
Who
Terry Lynn Nichols
What
161 total number
Where
United States (Oklahoma)
When
2004

Terry Lynn Nichols took part in the planning and preparation for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma, USA in April 1995, in which 168 people, including 19 children, were killed. At a federal trial in 1997, he was convicted of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter for killing federal law enforcement personnel and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. At a later trial in 2004 in Oklahoma, he was convicted on 161 counts of first-degree murder, including one of foetal homicide. He was then sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.