Why does Germany coddle cold-blooded murderers?
Because the Constitutional Court ruled, that Art. 1 of our Constitution ("The dignity of man is untouchable.") also applies to murderers. Life in prison is against the human dignity. Only in few cases (reasonable suspicion that the offender could kill again) the court may order a really really lifelong imprisonment, and so it was here. But in these cases, after 15 years, psychos shall visit the inmates from time to time and check their "evil factor". Those whackos often made wrong decisions in the past, and thus we had many children being killed by an released murderer after they abused them. Sick, isn´t it??
In the other cases (normal murder), the criminals are released after 15-18 years.