You have a link? I don’t remember reading about that.

Personally, I'd rather he reflect and better himself. I'm not entirely comfortable wishing suffering and misery on someone.

If it wasn't for the fact that I don't trust the state whatsoever to put the right people into pillories, I'd support their return.

Federal and State are both pardonable, it is just different entities.

Federal means no parole.

It's also a lot rougher place to be.

So does state if the Governor is inclined. But with both having life+ sentences there's little chance he goes anywhere.

It saves the government and courts (and by extension tax payers) a whole lot of time and money. There's no need for a normal trial and all the extra crap that comes of that (like appeals). It also removes/reduces the risk(s) of a death penalty sentence (much more expensive than a life sentence), further trauma for the victims as well as their friends and families, and avoids the extremely unlikely but still possible chance that the accused is found not guilty or uses some other legal maneuver to avoid real consequences.

Life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 190 years, and the defendent waves almost all of his appeal rights. All of that without needing to go through the efforst, expense, and trauma of a trial. The prosecutors were only able to get this deal because the case against them was so strong.