Only a barbaric society would agree to such a sentence.
Any civilized people, realizing their civilization was on the balance of the justice scales, would have sentenced him to be executed.
Some think that hell die at the hands of someone in prison. To fob off his execution to some other lowlifes only reinforces our barbarity of behavior.
We have lost a golden opportunity to exhibit our civilized behavior. His execution should be scheduled for sometime September 2013.