Every sentence a life sentence?
"Do the crime, do the time" is a favourite catch-cry of the "hard on crime" mob. New Zealand has the comically misnamed Sensible Sentencing Trust which is neither sensible nor trustworthy, but every country has something similar - people for whom no sentence is ever long enough. You get the impression that if it were up to them, every sentence would be a life sentence. But in many countries, it already is. Whether you gave into a youthful, drunken impulse and snatched the tip