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.

Here's my take...

If you kill somebody in a manner that would get you an execution or life sentence, then you die the same way your victim(s) died. If you raped them first, you get raped. If you hack off their limbs with a chainsaw, you get your limbs hacked off with a chainsaw. Make a special court just for cases where execution is a possibility. (It's in the president's power to do so, by the way.) The wait to be executed will be shortened to a matter of a couple of months, rather than years. That'll reduce the murder rate, won't it... Who wants to apply for the job of executioner? :D

And don't give me this "anyone who wants to exact physical violence as a matter of revenge is EVIL" crap. The bastards that do this stuff deserve it and you know it. Whether you want to admit it or not, there ARE people out there that simply have no empathy for other human beings. Take this "rap culture" we have here in the US for example. These couple of "gangsta rap" kids got convicted for attempted murder for taking a video camera, going out and beating just some random guy almost to death, and video taping it.