Lifetime Imprisonment

Somehow I find such a sentence light nowadays especially in countries where the prison are so much better equipped than a poor house.

If people have such a hard time with the death penalty, why not go for instead maybe a lifetime hard labour in prison? Breaking rocks etc....

Or lifetime torture....whipped everyday or lifetime isolation.

Just that lifetime imprisonment seems just an easy way. Not to say its not a sweet deal. But I mean all that the prisoner would do is wake up, eat, recreational activities then sleep. Given that the prisoner has to also try to avoid the gang ass-rapes but thats not in the "offical" sentencing.

Whatever happened to forced exile?  If someone won't live by the laws of the land, just kick them out and let some other country deal with them.  Or just throw them into the bush and not let them back into the cities.  Much cheaper than tax-supported prisons, generally much less cushy, yet still guarantees the basic rights of freedom and life if they're willing to actually work for them.

This is, of course, assuming the crime doesn't justify capital and/or corporal punishments, or the populace at large is too wussy to enforce thus.