Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by New Jersey

Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "Suitcase Murder". She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 101 years old.

American boxer (1937–2014)

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.

American criminal (1935–2006)

American mass murderer (1925–2008)

Nurse convicted of killing patients

American serial killer

American serial killer

Black Liberation Army member

American attorney

American serial killer (1940–2008)