These days you seem to be immune to any kind of discussion with people holding a differing opinion whatsoever. It makes it very difficult to even want to hold such a discussion with you on anything these days.
In point of fact, by the way, you had a go at me first. Not directly, for sure, but since it's obvious that you see me as a "lefty", what else should I make of the line "What a nasty lot you lefties are", or "Standard...criminal loving lefty"? At best they are misunderstandings of what "lefties" believe in. At worst, they are products of the same coldness you accuse me of.
The problem is that what you're asking me to say and do achieves nothing other than convincing you that I'm as angry about it as you are, or at least as you want me to be. What's the point? The victim is dead already, nothing I say will change the outcome, and there's nothing I can myself do to change or lengthen his punishment. I don't see it as my job to do that anyway. I know that you take a dim view of the justice system, but in the end it is their job to consider the evidence and pass sentence based on that evidence and on the law. I would rather leave it up to those people to dispense justice, as opposed to the justice arising from the anger of the public. My first post, I'm sure, doesn't really reflect your views (although I wouldn't be surprised if some didn't take that position at least half-seriously on occasion), but the point is that I can be as angry as I like, plot as harsh a punishment as I like, and it won't mean a thing in the real world.
I am not angry, anyway. I am saddened. At least on an individual level, cases like this happen far too often for it to be healthy to get angry about them all the time. And anyway, who are you angrier at? The killer, or me for being apparently cold about it? It's not actually all that easy to tell.
Also, I don't really believe he's "got away with it" anyway. It's possible, after all, that there is some truth in the 'significant regret' claim -- we should hope so, anyway, for his sake and ours.
(On a separate note, I'm slightly surprised to see my first post in this thread still up.)