That's actually unlikely. Not impossible, of course, but out of the approximately 94k inmates in UK prisons,
less than 50 are currently serving whole life tariffs. The 94k out of a population of 60 million tells one that not everyone who commits a crime faces prison as a result. Hardly.
Further, the EU has recently ruled that LWOP contravenes human rights so right now there is a lot of debate altogether. Some EU countries have already banned such sentences while others are fighting the EU ruling (or discussing changing national laws to bypass the EU ruling, as in the UK).
Lastly, the only 'deal' for RG is that which is available to
every defendant in Italy's criminal justice system.
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All that said though, I certainly don't want RG to be roaming the streets either.
I believe in much harsher penalties than those generally given here (with the onus that I'm biased, being American) but a lot of European nationals do too. Sometimes, society's hands are tied by the politicians it elects and others, a nation's hands are tied by EU law.
It is hard to argue rehabilitative versus punitive when one considers the recidivism rate is much lower in Europe...but by and large, I think it's hard to quantify just how very different the European system is to the American, from the bottom up. Here, you don't have access to a sex offender registry; you can't look up arrest records, booking photos, and court minutes; few cameras in courtrooms; strict media laws around reporting (or even commenting on!) court cases, and on and on.
