Released To Kill Again.

In the UK, it has been made extremely difficult to find out murder statistics and this is particularly so where further murders are committed by 'lifers' although the numbers are known to be very significant. At one point a senior Probation Officer who was retired claimed that the figures were 'about one a fortnight'.
When I was still a JP, I received figures showing that there were, at that point, 3,600 'lifers' in British prisons. I have long endeavoured to get an accurate statistic for the numbers of life sentences awarded annually and it must be somewhere between 500 and a thousand.

My recent hotel room in Madrid was not THIS nice!

Care to guesstimate the average 'life sentence'?
This rather incomplete document from the USA however, makes grim reading:

http://www.wesleylowe.com/repoff.html