...but I don't see the point of "victim impact statements"? The sentencing of the truck driver who ran a stop sign in the Humbolt bus crash is being delayed while parents line up to talk about how their lives have been altered/ruined by the death of their loved one.
Well, of course they have. But to read out weepy statements neither dignifies the dead, nor does anything to change the law or the sentence. All it does is prolong the ordeal and re-hash the pain already suffered. I guess it makes everyone feel better, but I would not give such a statement were one of my loved ones killed.
These hearings will change nothing. The law is the law and the sentence will be the sentence.
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