Agreed. Holmes is 37, so 65 years is a life sentence. From a European perspective, life sentences should be for people who are too dangerous to ever allow back into the community, or whose crimes are so monstrous society requires such retribution - terrorists, child killers, serial killers and so on. US sentencing appears very vindictive, not so much for trust-fund faildaughters but for people of colour arrested for minor drugs offences or under "three strikes" laws. Reminds me a lot of the "Bloody Code" of 18th century England.