The prosecution asked that Xydias be sentenced for a "long, long time", noting it was within the Chief Justice's power to sentence him to more than a thousand years' jail.
You know these liberal judges; we'll be lucky if he gets over a hundred. His corpse will be eventually paroled, and his victims' (and their distant descendants') corpses will once again be at risk. It's an insult to their suffering for him not to receive as many fictional years he could never possibly serve as are bizarrely available under the legislation.
Because longer sentences make life demonstrably better for victims. Here's the evidence:
Victim hearing that criminal has received a sentence that matches what equivalent offenders have received and takes into account aggravating and mitigating factors in a careful, considered assessment of the evidence and long-established sentencing principles
Victim hearing that criminal has received a sentence of 100 years past the longest ever human lifespan in recorded history
Victim hearing that criminal has received a sentence of a thousand years
See? And imagine if the wussy parliaments had enabled, and the courts then laid down, a sentence even longer than that - she'd be downright ecstatic, her pain would magically disappear, and everything would be alright again.
In summary: if we can imagine a punishment, then a bad person deserves to have it done to them. Even if it is silly (or involves us actually hiring some kind of complete sicko to carry it out).