"Life without parole" is a bait and switch game that allows weak-kneed juries and judges to cop out on their responsibility to do justice and later allows liberal judges to release convicted murderers.
Just take a look at the Leopold/Loeb case in Illinois in the 1920's. Nathan Leopold and his buddy, Richard Loeb, murdered a neighbor boy, Bobby Franks, for the pure fun of it. Their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, opted for a bench trial and talked the judge into giving them "life without parole." Loeb was later killed in a prison fight. Leopold was paroled in 1958.
This is the most notorious bait and switch case involving "life without parole." If Leopold could beat his sentence, infamous as he was, it's a lead pipe cinch that many other murderers, who're less notorious but who've committed even worse crimes, could beat theirs. Also, remember Illinois' unlamented, departed RINO governor, George Ryan, who commuted ALL of the Illinois death sentences. The same thing could be done by a lib governor to "life without parole" sentences.
The argument is that if life without parole can be changed to "life with parole" it's no good. So if the death penalty can be changed to life with parole it's no good either? ("RINO governor, George Ryan, who commuted ALL of the Illinois death sentences...")
Maybe the problem isn't "Life without parole", but "liberal judges" instead.