Two former senior military officers were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the death of Bishop Enrique Angelelli in 1976. The court in the northern city of La Rioja imposed life sentences on a former army chief, Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, 86, and a former vice commodore, Luis Fernando Estrella, 82. Details of the ruling are to be released in September. Bishop Angelelli was one of the most left-leaning bishops in a generally conservative religious establishment when he died in an automobile crash in August 1976, shortly after the military seized power and began a crackdown on suspected leftists. For decades, officials insisted that the death was accidental. The case was reopened in 2010 when a former priest who had been riding with the bishop said that their car had been forced off the road.