@AA
You still haven't told us what "adequately" would mean in terms of sentencing, though, nor how you'd begin to assess it. Nor is it clear why the feelings of the family should be of any importance at all - that'd imply that to kill someone to whom noone was close is worse than to kill a popular person. (That's not an impossible line to take, but I think that it's implausible...)

Yes - people do get all jumpy when a sentence is, as they see it, inadequate. That's why - thankfully - they don't get a say in sentencing.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:51, Reply)