Death Penalty States offering Life Without Parole*

**Yoke** Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:45 pm

Death Penalty States
offering Life Without Parole*

(35/35 states)

Alabama Kansas Oregon
Arizona Kentucky Pennsylvania
Arkansas Louisiana South Carolina
California Maryland South Dakota
Colorado Mississippi Tennessee
Connecticut Missouri Texas
Delaware Montana Utah
Florida Nebraska Virginia
Georgia Nevada Washington
Idaho New Hampshire Wyoming
Illinois North Carolina plus-
Indiana Ohio Federal Statute
Oklahoma Military Statute

* Note that "three strikes" laws in some states may make life without parole available for at least some offenders in those state Non-Death Penalty States offering Life

Without Parole (14/15 states)

Hawaii Minnesota Rhode Island
Iowa New Jersey Vermont
Maine New Mexico West Virginia
Massachusetts New York Wisconsin
Michigan North Dakota plus-District of Columbia
[Alaska does not have life without parole]