I remember the three strikes law but I don’t know if it’s still on the books. I recall a guy with two strikes stealing a pizza, which was his third strike, and they threw him in jail. Liberals were screaming and howling that a man got jailed “just for stealing a pizza.” No...he got jailed for having two strikes and being too stupid to keep his nose clean after that.
The guy with two prior felonies, who knows he faces a life sentence on the next one… and yet cannot restrain himself, is exactly who “three-strikes” is designed for.