How old are these "men?" If they're young enough, I would think counseling would be in order. It's a bit much to say that every human person who committed a heinous crime against a non-human animal would therefore commit a similarly heinous crime against another human. And, I'm not saying I'm not horrified by this, because I am. It's sickening to the worst degree to think of what these people did to a helpless creature. But, again, if these "men" are teenagers, I might reconsider life in prison. But then I don't know where I'd have the cutoff age at, either. I don't know what I'd consider instead, as I don't know the restraints of the law really, but I don't think life in prison is necessarily appropriate just based on this. Poor dog. He must have been so afraid. Crap, now I'm crying.