Perhaps legislatures have overreacted and will revisit the issue. Just as soon as they do, you can bet liberal judges will return to dumping felons unpunished back into society.
I remember where lazy people figured it was too much trouble to research and elect decent judges, and to goto the polls to vote out judges that were unjust, and opportunistic politicians made hay out of it.
Next thing we knew were were in bizarro world where a guy can kill 10 innocent people, including infants, with his car (George Russell Weller), be found guilty of vehicular manslaughter and face only 18 years maximum, and another guy can sell a pound of weed to an undercover and receive 55 years minimum.