You seem to be missing a point. Someone who goes to jail for life stays in jail for life. That's why it's called a life sentence.
Someone who went to jail for 15-20 years was only ever sentenced to 20 years with possible parole at 15. If you think that they
should have been given life instead, take that up with your judges but don't decry life sentences as being insufficient just because you've misunderstood what it means.
In any case, jail doesn't work as a deterrent any better than the death penalty does, for all the same reasons that OANST gave.
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You are all the media's bitches, stoked up into a rage by experts and loosed onto the opinion columns and public forums with the precision of an arrow.
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Yup, I was going to make the same point rather less well as BM has.
And, in addition, I want to add that in the USA it costs far, far more to sentence someone to death than to keep them in jail for the rest of their life. The reason is that anyone given the death penalty always appeals as many times as is possible, which puts huge cost on the justice system.