Out of all the sentencing conventions in the US, I think the typical 5-10 years for pedophilia is the most obviously wrong. There's nothing to be gained from releasing pedos from jail, but everything to lose. The recidivism rate is so high that we need a special class of felon (the sexual offender registry) to try to provide at least some protection to children from further predation. In that light, is a life sentence cruel and unusual punishment as a consequence for child molestation? I don't think so.
The most enraging thing about child serial killers is that almost every one of them has a rap sheet for CSA and rape, but were set free by the legal system, sometimes multiple times, until their cravings got strong enough to kill their victims. The worst case I ever read was a guy that skipped bail for a pedo charge, then went on to kill an entire family, kidnap the youngest kids, and kill one of them before his last victim was rescued.
I don't know who decided that pedophiles should have the privilege of leaving prison, but let's say it wouldn't be surprising if there were a lot of conflicting interests involved.
They gotta be removed from society in some form, as if left unchecked, they spawn more pedos from their abuse.
We gotta weigh, if it's worth paying the money to keep them locked up for decades, where they will add nothing. So, do we pay huge sums to keep monsters alive so we can say 'At least we aren't killers' or are we paying huge sums to hope they are getting prison justice on the regular as a form of hell / torture?
I think it's better to just do like Florida and just Execute.
As far as I know, pedos don't magically change their nature. They just supposedly 'learn to control it'. That's why they can't be in society. We used to be really strict on making sure they had to move away/tracked. Now shit is so fucked up there's no tracking. There's no effective border control in many countries. It's like demons running wild.
Letting them out in 5-10 years is almost as criminal as what locked them up. Of course I'm talking about hard crimes with evidence, not some metoo shit. There should prob be different tiers for pre-pube / post-pube so the laws are clear and not used only against political enemies like we see in deep blue places. Though, this is one of those cases where nobody is going to fight too hard for an outlier.
In an ideal world, quick execution would be the norm, but with the infamous delays that usually doesn't happen. I see the life sentence as a pragmatic choice to strengthen punishment. The nice thing is that it sidesteps the whole death penalty discussion while removing the offender from society and the gene pool.
I definitely wouldn't say no to Florida's law, though, if it could be passed in other states.