[deport]

What is a life sentence in TX now? Seems it was changed not too long ago to require something like 40 yrs served before being elgible for parole consideration.

[MeekOneGOP]

What is a life sentence in TX now? Seems it was changed not too long ago to require something like 40 yrs served before being elgible for parole consideration.

Yes, it looks like 40 years.

Here is a link to the Andrea Yates case. She got life in prison:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03/15/yates.sentence/

Yates sentenced to life in prison

March 15, 2002 Posted: 9:49 PM EST (0249 GMT)

Andrea Yates, center, looks at attorney Wendell Odom Friday as she learns of the life in prison sentence

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HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- A Texas jury spent less than an hour deliberating before sentencing Andrea Yates to life in prison Friday for the drowning deaths of her five children. She will be eligible for parole in 40 years.

[writmeister]

What is a life sentence in TX now? Seems it was changed not too long ago to require something like 40 yrs served before being elgible for parole consideration.

A person convicted for capital murder and receiving a life sentence must serve forty years before being considered for parole. A person convicted of any other first-degree felony (including murder) with a life sentence must serve thirty years before being considered for parole.