Notorious killers can die behind bars, rules Europe Under the current law, courts can sentence the most dangerous and serious offenders to "whole-life" tariffs meaning they will almost certainly never be released. Others on such tariffs include Moors Murderer Ian Brady, Rose West, and the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. Bamber took his legal challenge to Europe along with convicted killers Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter. But the judges said the whole-life tariff is not "grossly disproportionate" and in each case London's High Court had "decided that an all-life tariff was required, relatively recently and following a fair and detailed consideration." Bamber has been behind bars for more than 25 years for shooting his wealthy adopted parents June and Neville, his sister Sheila Caffell and her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas at their farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. The 51-year-old was given a whole-life tariff after being convicted of the murders in October 1986. But he has always protested his innocence and claims his schizophrenic sister Ms Caffell shot her family before turning the gun on herself in a remote Essex farmhouse. After the ruling. a statement from Bamber, released by his supporters, said: "If the state wishes to have a death penalty, then they should be honest and reintroduce hanging. Instead, this political decision that I must die in jail is the death penalty using old age or infirmity as the method.