Nonsense. The SOB who shot and killed my twin brother 31 years ago in the back of his head with a shotgun three times at point-blank range can rot in prison until he dies as far as I am concerned.
Compassion like yours is for the lucky.
Compassion like yours is for the lucky.
Fortunately, the justice system is not concerned with how you feel about it either. It should assess prisoners purely on their current state and their current danger to society, not on how their victims feel 31 years later(and that should work both ways - someone shouldn't be kept in prison because their victim feels that way, but they also shouldn't be released early because their victim feels compassionate - justice should be blind to both of those).