See you can speak from experience, others can only use common sense. But for some reason, apologists simply have no way of acknowledging facts. And what you just mentioned is a perfect example. You don't need to commit murder in order to deserve a life sentence. Violent acts in which a person does not kill another almost always leads to murder at some other point in time. Look the history of many serial killers, the first few times they only commit rape or assault and then they move onto more violent acts which eventually lead to murder and torture.