On this morning’s episode of The View, the co-hosts reacted to Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing for the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022.

Kohberger, who accepted a plea deal last week to avoid the death penalty, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole on Tuesday (July 23).

While Joy Behar said, “If I were the parent [of the victims], I would want him off the planet, frankly,” Sara Haines felt as though justice was served with his multiple life sentences.

“I would want him to live every single day. I think dying or killing, or people who commit suicide like Jeffrey Epstein or people who experience the death penalty, that is the easy way out,” she said. “Due to his high risk, he will most likely be in isolation. When he has visits, he will be overseen through glass. He will not be touched again. He will not have certain media. He will get his meals through a tin door for the rest of his life, no chance for parole.”

Whoopi Goldberg, on the other hand, felt torn about whether the death sentence would’ve been the right move in the Idaho murders case.

“If you took my family away, I would not want you breathing. But then the other part of me says, ‘Well, you have to wait and see if there’s any rehabilitation in there,'” she said, pointing out that Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were sentenced to life without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents, recently had their sentence reduced to 50 years to life after they expressed remorse for their actions and family members spoke about their character and rehabilitation in prison.

“The Menendez brothers got many, many, many years for the murder of their parents and time has come around and people are saying, ‘Well, we should listen to what they have to say,'” Goldberg continued. “I’m thinking to myself, ‘Wait, 10, 15 years ago, you said not to do that.’ So, it’s very hard.”

Sunny Hostin then countered Goldberg’s point by adding, “People now know a little bit more about the ‘why,'” referring to the sexual abuse the Menendez brothers allegedly faced from their father that led them to commit the murders. However, she said,”In [the Idaho murders] case, we don’t know anything about the ‘why.'”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.