Life imprisonment without parole
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Greene v. State (2004)
Most recently applied in Sales v. State (September 2014)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 1305; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1305; Acts 2019, No. 910, § 660.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A person sentenced to life imprisonment without parole shall:
(1) Be remanded to the custody of the Division of Correction for imprisonment for the remainder of his or her life; and
(2) Not be released except pursuant to commutation, pardon, or reprieve of the Governor.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.