killed an elderly woman on her way to chemotherapy
If this was her situation then her family had no doubt already begun the process of coming to grips with the loss of her. That probably helped them move past their grief and ask if punishing that young man was really going to help anything. I can imagine this playing out very differently if a young person with their whole life ahead of them had been killed.
I’ve heard of judges including in a sentence terms such as, every year on the victim’s birthday, the defendant has to send a dollar to the victims family, just to make sure the defendant doesn’t forget, perhaps remembers to live their life for two people.
If this was her situation then her family had no doubt already begun the process of coming to grips with the loss of her. That probably helped them move past their grief and ask if punishing that young man was really going to help anything. I can imagine this playing out very differently if a young person with their whole life ahead of them had been killed.
Certainly.
I’ve heard of judges including in a sentence terms such as, every year on the victim’s birthday, the defendant has to send a dollar to the victims family, just to make sure the defendant doesn’t forget, perhaps remembers to live their life for two people.