Mass Murderer Is Imprisoned for Life

Martin Bryant, who committed Australia’s worst modern-day massacre, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing 35 people in an April shooting spree at a Tasmanian tourist spot. Chief Justice William Cox of the Tasmanian Supreme Court handed down 35 life sentences against Bryant and said he would never be eligible for parole. Australia has no death penalty. Bryant pleaded not guilty soon after his arrest, but last month he admitted to shooting down the tourists April 28 at the ruins of Port Arthur, an 18th century penal colony 60 miles south of Hobart.