10 longest sentences in history

10. Bobby Joe Long

Serial killer who killed more than 25 women (raped more than 50 women). The sentence was reduced on appeal from 33 life sentences.

• sentence: 28 life sentences + 104 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 1985
• country: United States

9. Warren Troy Knoop

Convicted of 870 rapes of children.

• sentence: 32 life sentences + 170 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 2017
• country: South Africa

8. Billy Joe Godfrey

Accused of 35 counts of first degree statutory sodomy.

• sentence: 35 life sentences + 1050 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 2015
• country: United States

7. Martina Bryanta

He murdered 35 people and injured 23 in the Port Arthur massacre on April 28, 1996.

• sentence: 35 life sentences + 1035 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 1996
• country: Australia

6. Loi Khac Nguyen

Survivor of the 1991 siege of Good Guys. He was convicted of 3 murderers (11 attempts) and 35 kidnappings.

• sentence: 49 life sentences
• the beginning of incarceration: 1991
• country: United States

5. Gary Ridgway

American serial killer convicted of murdering 49 people (confessed to killing 71 prostitutes between 1982 and 1998).

• sentence: 49 life sentences + 480 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 2003
• country: United States

4. Brenton Tarrant

Convicted of murdering 51 worshipers in the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootout.

• sentence: 52 life sentences + 480 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 2020
• country: New Zealand

3. Abdullah Barghouti

Top Palestinian commander of the armed wing of Hamas, one of the organization’s main bomb producers.

• sentence: 67 life sentences + 5200 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 2004
• country: Palestine

2. Michael J. Devlin

American criminal convicted of kidnapping and sexual exploitation of children.

• sentence: 74 life sentences + 2020 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 2007
• country: United States

1. Terry Nichols

American terrorist convicted of complicity in the Oklahoma City bombing (161 counts of first degree murder).

• sentence: 161 life sentences + 9,300 years
• the beginning of incarceration: 1995
• country: United States