While I think this guy is a poster boy for the death penalty, in some ways this may be a better sentance. What he wanted was martyrdom ...what he is likely getting is 23 hours alone in a cell every day for the rest of his miserable life ...no 72 virgins for him. I would however hope that he would serve his time in a maximum security federal prison, but in the general population. It would be very fitting to have him being sodomized, beaten and likely knifed.
Except that he might actually like that.