Is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole cruel and unusual?

[ElectionsGuy]

Not really, lets say the death penalty is illegal, and something like the Ariel Castro case happens. You're going to say "life in prison is cruel and unusual"? It seems to me to be pure non-sense. We can argue about what laws broken should grant x amount of prison time, but if someone breaks a certain amount of laws and gets a certain amount of time so be it. This is part of the sympathy section of the left. If you think about it, letting a prisoner out on parole is no different then letting an illegal citizen free with regulations.