Really. What about torture and mutilation? If I cut your arms and legs off and put out your eyes and you live, I still deserve to live?
If I rape your daughter and then keep her a slave chained up in my basement for a few years and do all sorts of horrible things to her and then let her go and she lives, I still deserve to live?
Sorry, your litmus test sucks.
Well, that’s just the way I think about it. One can make it life in prison, too (no parole, I’m talking about).
And it doesn’t have to be country-club living either... They do have super-max prisons where a person is isolated for 23 hours of the day, one hour out, and they never come into contact with any other prisoner or see another prisoner — but only the guards.