There's going to be 2 main thoughts in this thread.
It's an awful waist of tax payers money for the next 40 years why not hang them.
The other is they got what they deserve 40 years minimum lose of liberty.
As a British tax payer I see this as an awful waist of money but on the other hand my conscience has a problem with being dragged to their (the criminals) level of violence.
Particularly with this crew we would run the risk of bestowing some kind of martyrdom no matter what we do.
Here's a third option. Assisted euthanasia. Give the buggers a choice. Stay alive in jail for 40 years minimum or be offered, say once a year for 10 years, the option to commit suicide.
They wanna live that's fine by me. They wanna kill themselves that's fine by me.