What about last year's sentencing of John Collins for the baseball bat killing of Brent Bacon. The injuries to the victim were so violent in nature that they were described as being akin to that of a severe head trauma, comparable to a high-speed impact to the head often seen in car accidents, which this was not. But Collins also tried unsuccessfully to justify his murder as self-defence, which it was also not. The judge decided that a whole-of-life term would be grossly disproportionate and so jailed him for life, and as a second-striker he got a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. These criminals need to serve their second-strike sentences and be back out in society, either committing more crime or not, for us to really see the full benefits of the three-strikes sentencing. We've allowed judges to take into account the disproportion that could occur in sentencing, so that's no excuse really.